Thanks to the reviews here (and elsewhere), I took a chance on my next tablet by ordering the Dell Venue 10 7040. It should be here by Wednesday. Even though it doesn't have its own forum yet, I'll post first impressions if anyone is interested.
I have removed it and paired it many times. It fails to connect most of the time if it was kicked off during one of those apps until I clear the Bluetooth cache and restart the tablet. I even did a factory reset and no luck so I guess I will have to send it back. Thanks for telling me that you have not had the same problem.
Sweet. Also, got our own forum. Nice.Interestingly after my last post the keyboard has done fantastic and I am even using it right now, I guess there was something going on in the background and I was excited enough not to have patients. If it happens again though I will contact Dell but hopefully it was just something I did for the first day.
Sounds like a great deal, the price was the only part that made ordering one so tough for me. My keyboard continued having problems like I stated before so I actually just got a new tablet in the mail last week but it fixed everything. Very happy with the Venue 10 so I hope you are too.So I just lucked into one of these and I'll be firing it up pretty soon. I purchased the 8" and had some dead pixels, so they agreed to do a replacement. Then, I get this email from Dell asking me if the 10" would be an ok replacement as they didn't have any of the 8" available to ship to me that day. Of course I said yes. Then to my surprise when it showed up today, it was the 32gb version with the keyboard included! I only paid $370-ish for the 8 and wasn't charged anything extra for the 10. I couldn't believe it!
Glad to see you guys seem to like it. It'll mostly be an entertainment device and a travel companion, so this looks to fit the bill pretty nicely.
I think casting an entire screen is rather limited on which devices Chromecast actually supports. They originally only supported a couple of Nexus/GPe devices and when they opened it up to all devices they warned that it will not work or be supported on everything. You can try other gallery apps that support Chromecast but I don't know of a browser that does.I got my Dell Venue 10 7040 a few days ago. In General, I Iike it a lot, BUT there is one big problem. Android 5 has a "cast screen" feature that is one of my primary reasons for using Android devices. It works perfectly on my Nexus 5 phone, but NOT on this Dell tablet. It says "no devices detected" while there are 3 Chromecast devices in the house. The Chromecast app can see them, Youtube, Netflix, Pandora, and HBOGo can see them and cast to them just fine. But Google Photos and Chrome browser... no way to cast them to the Big Screen!
I suspect that there is a conflict with the Dellcast app. Dellcast of course wants me to buy Dellcast adapters... Dellcast app cannot see the Chromecast devices either. This will be a deal breaker if I can't find a solution.
I got my Dell Venue 10 7040 a few days ago. In General, I Iike it a lot, BUT there is one big problem. Android 5 has a "cast screen" feature that is one of my primary reasons for using Android devices. It works perfectly on my Nexus 5 phone, but NOT on this Dell tablet. It says "no devices detected" while there are 3 Chromecast devices in the house. The Chromecast app can see them, Youtube, Netflix, Pandora, and HBOGo can see them and cast to them just fine. But Google Photos and Chrome browser... no way to cast them to the Big Screen!
I suspect that there is a conflict with the Dellcast app. Dellcast of course wants me to buy Dellcast adapters... Dellcast app cannot see the Chromecast devices either. This will be a deal breaker if I can't find a solution.