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Yikes. Am just now setting up my new Dell Venue 8 Pro, and trying to use the included Kindle app. Unless I'm missing something, there's no brightness setting. And again, unless I'm missing something, it's way too inconvenient to change the brightness via Windows (I've turned off auto-brightness at the suggestion of several posts).
After
- lengthy and seemingly never-ending updates,
- creating a couple of Windows USB recovery drives
- removing the recovery partition in order to regain some space (my nominal 32 GB of storage went to 7-something after updates),
- experiencing Windows Update stalling when called via Charms, but finally working when called via the old Windows UI,
- the standard Charms keyboard that appeared in the Kindle app didn't have one of my Amazon password characters, so I had to find the old on-screen keyboard to be able to input that one character,
it seems to me that Windows is doomed to live on bigger iron (desktops and laptops). If you need some program for your work, ok, Windows it is, and this tablet gives you portable full Windows. Maybe Win10 will solve some of the issues? Maybe worthy apps will appear (though we're not seeing that on Windows Phone). Otherwise, it's just too bloated and with too much of a mouse/keyboard history to perform well as a tablet consumption device. I can't imagine the average person, who has used other tablets successfully, being able to get through what I just went through, just to get to start using the thing.
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