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By Maxime Abbey - First published on 04-13-2014 on Arachnosoft
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Dell's choice of Synaptics technology led to many negative feedback following the release of the Venue 8 Pro.
First published stylus reviews revealed awful results: approximative recognition, bad stylus removal detection (leading to unwanted drawn lines), weak battery life...
Dell reacted by publishing several driver and firmware updates for the tablet or the system itself, and issued a massive recall of the first stylus revisions (known as "A00") to fix hardware issues which couldn't be addressed through software updates.
This led to a massive shortage of styli during most of Q1 2014.
In March 2014, new styli, in "A01" revision, were released and made available for purchase, and were said to address most of the biggest issues encountered with the first revisions.
The Dell Venue 8 Pro being my first own tablet, and the very first one on which I could experiment with a stylus, I don't have enough experience to compare this Synaptics stylus with other brands used on other stylus-enabled tablets, such as the Asus VivoTab Note 8 or Microsoft Surface tablets, featuring the most renowned (and objectively better) Wacom technology.
As a result, I'm going to give my opinion from two different angles: first as a stylus newbie, without any comparison points or knowledge of competing technology; then, I'll temper my expectations with feedback from other users who actually compared with competition.
You'll also note that I'm left-handled; as such, I configured the stylus for left-handed operation.
Technical review: positive facts
Technically, without any comparison knowledge, I'd have said that the Dell stylus I own, packed with all the updates released by Dell since the tablet's availability in stores, is working quite well:
Technical review: negative facts
Compared to Wacom technology
The competing Wacom technology is known to perform better, and if you compare the results from the Dell, with those you got from the Asus VivoTab 8 or, even better, the Microsoft Surface tablet series, you'll notice some significant differences:
8-inch screen Windows 8 tablets competition
The Asus VivoTab Note 8 is the only Windows 8-inch tablet to be equipped with a Wacom active stylus/digitizer, as of Q1 2014.
But this product does not benefit from some features advertised by Dell, such as HSPA+ connectivity.
So, everybody will have to choose between these two, depending on each people's requirements.
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