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Using the Dell Venue 8 Pro Stylus

You will recall from my earlier post how much I like my Dell Venue 8 Pro and how disappointed I was that the stylus was on back-order until March. Imagine my surprise, then, when a package arrived at the beginning of this week with a shiny new stylus in it! WP_20140205_14_29_06_Raw As you can see from the picture, it works just great with OneNote (and it’s desktop big brother). The only niggle I feel obliged to point out right at the start is that the stylus requires a battery, which is an extremely obscure AAAA type.

Living with the Dell Venue 8 Pro

venu8prohq Some time ago I wrote about how disappointed I was with the Acer W3 tablet. I really wanted that small form factor device, but the Acer fell short in pretty much every regard. Late last year Dell launched the Venue 8 Pro – the first of the new generation of 8” Windows tablets out of the gate. I sat on the fence for a while, looking at community comments on the the device, then finally ordered one after speaking to Simon May about his impressions of it.