All told, Alienware’s first effort with an OLED-equipped gaming laptop is impressive and it’s refreshing to see manufacturers like Dell bringing true innovation to laptops again, beyond the typical processor and platform refreshes we see every year. I highly recommend the Alienware 13 OLED if you’re in the market for a such a beast. At just 4.5 pounds it packs some solid firepower and a whole lot of visual impact to go with it as well.

I’ll leave HotHardware’s video review of the machine here, where we look at it side-by-side versus the Dell XPS 15 and A/B its high-end IPS panel versus the Alienware 13′s OLED prowess.It is no secret that there are plenty of devices to choose from in the market. And even when a device is decided on, there are still plenty of offerings to choose from. The saturated state of the market is exactly why Dell has decided to cut off potential losses and is letting go of its Android Tablet line.
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"The slate tablet market is oversaturated and is experiencing declining demand from consumers," a Dell spokesperson shared in an email to PC World. The company's Android-based Venue tablet line will be discontinued. The spokesperson did share, however, that those who already own the Venue tablet have nothing much to worry about, as Dell will continue to service the units and will still accept devices under warranty. However, there will be no future OS upgrades.
Instead, Dell will be focusing on its 2-in-1 gadgets. This type of technology allows users to choose whether the device will serve as a laptop or a tablet. Of course, they are convertible as the user pleases.
"We are seeing 2-in-1s rising in popularity since they provide a more optimal blend of PC capabilities with tablet mobility."
By dropping the Android Tablet line, Dell has made itself almost a purely laptop and hybrid manufacturer, powered by Windows. This does not mean, however, that the company is closing its doors to supporting Android in the future. At this time, it is just discontinuing their line of Venue tablets.

Apple Insider notes that HP made an earlier announcement that it might drop their line of tablets as well. It was six months ago when HP made the statement, as the company also wants to focus on more profitable devices. This decision was made after HP had started to stop manufacturing smartphones.
Similarly, HP's President of Personal Systems, Ron Coughlin, said, "We are going to focus where there is profitability and growth."
Launching back in December 2015 alongside the smaller Nexus 5X, the Nexus 6P was a vast improvement over its predecessor, the Nexus 6. With its premium metal body, USB-C port for fast charging and excellent 5.7in display, it's a far more accomplished phone than the Nexus 6, and a lot more attractive, too. Of course, since the phone was released, we've had this year's flagship handsets arrive, particularly the Samsung Galaxy S7. While the Nexus 6P might not quite have the performance of this new phone, or quite the same battery life, that doesn't mean that you should ignore it, as it has a few important advantages.

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First, the price has come down quite a lot and you can pick up some bargains on contract, with very little upfront cost. Secondly, the phone's main advantage is that it runs stock Android, which means it's one of the first to get the latest Android updated. In fact, you can already download the developer preview of Android N for it. For many people, it's this upgradeability that makes the Nexus line-up so attractive. So, before you buy a flagship phone from another manufacturer, it's worth reading about what the Nexus 6P can do.The rumoured move could indicate that Google wishes to move beyond software into manufacturing, most likely to compete with Apple's iPhone in the hardware space.

Ben Wood, an analyst at CCS Insight, told The Telegraph: "They are concerned that Android is fragmenting, that it needs to become a more controlled platform. I think they'll seek to control more of it, more like Apple."The 6P has retained the 2560 x 1440 resolution of its predecessor, but Huawei has chosen to bump the screen size up to 5.7in. It loses a little pixel density as a result, but that's not really an issue here.The display is incredibly sharp, in spite of the PenTile sub-pixel structure employed by the panel, and the contrast is impeccable. Brightness is also superb; it suffers a little in comparison with the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus, but not enough to have any real effect.

There's a very slight blue-green shift when placed at extreme angles, but other than that, the viewing angles are faultless. There is, however, a problem with oversaturation.A common issue with phones like the 6P that use OLED panels, it's similar to Samsung devices' default 'Adaptive' setting. Unfortunately, there's no way to bump it back down to a more natural level. On the bright side, colour accuracy is improved over the Nexus 6. The Nexus 6P does not have a megapixel-chasing camera. Its main sensor measures 1/2.3 of an inch, the largest found in phones outside of the old Nokia PureView range, with a resolution of 12.3 megapixels and a wide aperture of f2.

This lets the Nexus 6P maintain fairly good image quality regardless of (most) light conditions, even though the phone does not have optical image stabilisation. Large 1.55-micron sensor pixels help it keep noise levels reasonable in lower light without extremely obvious noise reduction. Plus, it means the camera doesn’t have to drop down to its slowest 1/10 second shutter speed until the light level is really dark.

Colours in photos are rich, with none of the tone clipping you get in some cheap 13-megapixel sensors, while the quality f/2.0 lens allows for some pleasant shallow depth of field effect shots when shooting close-up subjects. The Nexus 6P has a very nice camera, with images that hold up better than a lot of higher-resolution rivals. However, the software running the show needs to be smarter.

Only minor tweaks have been made to the Google Camera app, bunging HDR and flash controls into the top-right of the otherwise-dated UI.The metering system reverts to spot-metering as soon as a subject is selected, with much less intelligent consideration for the rest of the scene than the iPhone 6S and Samsung Galaxy S6. When the Nexus 6P is left to judge the scene on its own, it tends to be a little conservative in trickier conditions too, meaning its shots can often benefit from post-shoot tweaking to bring up the brightness a little.

The Auto HDR mode is also not a patch on that of LG and Samsung, taking too long to process shots and with results that aren’t as good. However, the Nexus 6P does shoot slo-mo video, shooting at either 150fps or 240fps. Unlike stills, video is stabilised, but using a software method that crops the image, using its outer parts as a buffer.Despite all this, shooting with the Nexus 6P’s camera still produces generally pleasing results. The front camera is good too with a large eight-megapixel sensor producing sharper, clearer images than any of the other 2015 flagships.This octo-core 2GHz CPU doesn’t perform as well in benchmarks as the Samsung Galaxy S6 family’s Exynos processors, but is otherwise among the fastest chipsets available. It is contentious, though, having caused at least some overheating problems in at least some devices that use it.

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Google says the Nexus 6P uses v2.1 of the Snapdragon 810, designed to combat this, but the phone still got fairly warm when the display was on, when the phone was downloading data over 4G and even when the processor was working at something only moderately taxing.It does not run as cool as the iPhone 6S or Galaxy S6, but is nowhere near as prone to running hot as the Sony Xperia Z3+ either - we didn’t see a single overheating warning during testing.

Hardware is only ever part of the story of a Nexus device. The Nexus 6P mission statement is to show off Android 6.0 Marshmallow with up-to-date hardware, free of any manufacturer alterations.We’ve delved into Marshmallow in more detail elsewhere, but there’s one detail worth mentioning here even if it’s strictly speaking not part of Marshmallow at all. Google has committed itself to releasing monthly security updates for Android, with Lollipop supported in addition to Marshmallow. Nexus devices like the 6P should receive these promptly – while Samsung and LG have signed up to the monthly scheme, those manufacturers have noted that security updates will still be subject to mobile network approval.

The Nexus 6P has the advantage of being able to spread what little heat it does generate across its rear more than some other phones, as it has a highly conductive aluminium frame. It comes in grey, white and silver finishes, and its slightly narrower width (compared to the Nexus 6) helps it avoid the worst of the finger-stretching girth factor of its predecessor.There’s a slightly awkward-looking bump of glass at the top that tarnishes its appearance a little, but the Nexus 6P is an expensive-feeling and generally good-looking phablet overall.

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