Dell revives Venue brand with new line of Windows 8 tablets

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/09/dell01.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/11/dell-venue-tablets/)Dell dropped a surprise here at the Intel Developer Forum when Neil Hand, VP of tablets and performance PCs, announced that it's reviving its Venue brand with a new line of Windows 8 tablets. The company last used the branding almost a year ago with the less-than-successful Venue and Venue Pro handsets (http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/28/dell-leaves-its-us-phone-plans-blank-after-ending-sales-of-the-v/), both of which ran Windows Phone 7. Hand was on stage during today's IDF keynote showing off what appears to be an 8-inch slate running the latest Windows 8.1 firmware on Intel's recently announced Atom Z3000 processor (http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/11/intel-announces-new-bay-trail/). Not much else was unveiled about the hardware, but Hand did drop a hint that it plans to host a Venue-specific event on October 2nd in New York City that will hopefully reveal more information.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/11/dell-venue-tablets/