Dell Venue 8 7840 Started Getting Android 5.0 Update

Atlast, Dell has finally released the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for its Venue 8 7840 tablet. This update is now available over-the-air (OTA) and will automatically reach your device over the next few days.

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Lollipop update comes with new material design which offers a bold, colorful and responsive UI, refreshing notification system.

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It will also allow the users to see the notification in the lock screen and they will get displayed like banners on the top of the screen.

Additionally, there is a do-not-disturb feature added to the notification bar. This update also contains battery optimization, which includes battery saver mode, job scheduling and a new developer tool called Battery Historian which tracks the battery consumption by an application.

Reiterating the specs of Venue 8 7840 tablet, runs Android 4.4 KitKat and features an 8.4-inch Quad-HD (2560x1600) OLED display.

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It sports a quad-core Intel Atom Z3500 series SoC, clocked at 2.3GHz, alongside a PowerVR G6430 GPU and 2GB of RAM.

It packs an 8-megapixel rear camera and a front 2-megpixel shooter. The 16GB of built-in storage on the Dell Venue 8 is expandable via microSD card. Connectivity options include the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.