Dell Venue 8 Pro Touch Sensitivity

I hope I'm not reposting this, but I found that after installing the recent A08 BIOS, my repeat problems with the on screen keyboard were virtually gone.  Of course, I also had installed the touchscreen firmware update previously as well).

Why would you buy this when you see all these horrible reviews about the issue. It is hardware and heat related, among other issues. The more you use it the warmer it gets and the more erratic the touch screen gets. And as you mention you can't use it on a stand as its ridiculously inaccurate on the sensitivity.  Its been one of the most expensive paperweights I've owned! Forget the money, its been the worst experince in a tech hardware, and the most anger inspiring as well. 

Its like buying a pretty darn great car with permanent square wheels&tires.  

Why would you buy this when you see all these horrible reviews about the issue. It is hardware and heat related, among other issues. The more you use it the warmer it gets and the more erratic the touch screen gets. And as you mention you can't use it on a stand as its ridiculously inaccurate on the sensitivity.  Its been one of the most expensive paperweights I've owned! Forget the money, its been the worst experince in a tech hardware, and the most anger inspiring as well.  Its like buying a pretty darn great car with permanent square wheels&tires.

Personally, I haven't had any of those issues and have enjoyed the tablet tremendously.  There are idiosyncrasies, but I've found no more than in any Windows PC. 

You must be very fortunate to not have the touchscreen issues. The only solution that I have found is to touch the on-screen keyboard with the side of my finger rather than the pad of my finger, OR use a soft generic stylus (NOT the Dell stylus). Either of these solutions lessens the touchscreen issues. I agree though with the poster phil indeblanc. It truly is disgraceful that Dell seems unable to resolve such a basic issue for a touch tablet. Many, many others have reported this same issue,

You must be very fortunate to not have the touchscreen issues. The only solution that I have found is to touch the on-screen keyboard with the side of my finger rather than the pad of my finger, OR use a soft generic stylus (NOT the Dell stylus). Either of these solutions lessens the touchscreen issues. I agree though with the poster phil indeblanc. It truly is disgraceful that Dell seems unable to resolve such a basic issue for a touch tablet. Many, many others have reported this same issue,

I don't mean to discount an issue that anyone is having, and feel badly for anyone facing those issues.  But my guess is, the vast majority of users simply do not have touchscreen issues of the type being reported here.  Otherwise, things in Dell's handling would be very different, in the face of massive returns which just don't seem to be happening.  I certainly encourage anyone having an issue to seek a warranty repair/replacement--such issues are not a norm, it again seems to me, and are not acceptable.

The patches and fixes to the problem were well over anyone with a 14day return. 2 months was more along the lines of the fixes to come, and even longer on the stylus revision.  DELL lost it for me, and many others.

I just swapped out 18 employee desktops, and laptops, without using Dell. It was hard not to go with Dell. The prices were very good, specially in their discount outlet...and we paid almost $1500 more, but in the end it is well worth it. For personal use, I will never get a Dell again, from my experience buying a $3500 XPS system they sold me with 8GB of ram to roll into Windows 64Bit(years back when 64bit was new), all along the Motherboard they used never supported it. They never came through. Not even to switch out the Foxcon Mobo model. They made it a big hassle to deal with, meaning they did all sorts of software tests, then hours of time on the phone with support, and explaining everything 20 times. As if my life revolves around Dell for me to explain why I deserve a fix!

This is how you lose customers and the grassroots energy that a company is good to go with. For anyone in IT and knows these and other issues avoids Dell. You keep cutting corners for the greedy execs behind the desk, and thats what happens. The top guy could give a hoot less. He is done and one foot out the door. A shame, a sham!  I spent hours on tech calls regarding the V8. The techs were very polite, very eager to help. they sent a replacement even(with bad pixels), and even though the problems were less at first, they creeped up.

If you don't have the issue, be happy! but take a look at how long THIS thread is, and then take a look at 30 other threads with the same issues! Then tell me its a small issue. "My backyard looks perfectly fine". If yo don't get that quote, get out the house and look at the world around you.

On top of that DELL doesn't seem interested in fixing this problem.

It certainly has had issues.  But it also certainly has tried to fix matters at least with the stylus, having gone through at least an original and 2 revisions to it . . . .  Now whether this has been suitably successful may be a different story.

I'm not discounting anyone's issue.  But issues are reported in forums; the vast number of people without issues simply don't.