Dell 2209WA – mini review

I have been looking for a nice rotatable screen a while, and I finally went for a Dell 2209WA. It’s a 22 inch screen featuring a resolution of 1680×1050 that is supposed to deliver excellent image quality along with the feature that I really was looking for – the ability to rotate the screen 90 degrees. It also helped that you wouldn’t need to run a credit report to see if you could afford such a cool monitor as it very affordable. Here’s my mini review of the Dell 2209WA.

The Dell 2209WA measures 461.91 x 511.77 x 184.12 mm and weighs 7.93 kg which is similar to all bunch of other 22 inch widescreen monitors on the markets. Other specifications are a brightness level of 300 cd/m2, claimed viewing angle (horizontal) 178 degrees, claimed viewing angle (vertical) 178 degrees, a contrast ratio of 1000:1 and a pixel response time of 6ms. Nothing really special here. I compared it side-by-side with a 22 inch Samsung screen and they looked very similar in all aspects. The image quality is great! Since it’s an LCD screen you won’t get any deep black colors but overall the colors are represented very good and it’s crisp.

The screen features a built-in USB hub which will give you 4 USB ports on the back of your screen. Since you loose one when you connect the hub you only get 3 extras though.

The power and menu buttons are located in the bottom right corner (or bottom left if the screen is rotated 90 degrees). It’s very easy to flip through the settings and personalize your settings.

On the back of the screen you can find a standard RGB port and a DVI port. No display port, but adaptors are cheap nowadays.

And here’s the main reason I went for the Dell 2209WA screen – you can easily rotate the screen 90 degrees and if you work a lot with non-landscape layouts this is really helpful.

As I mentioned earlier, the display is really crisp and I rate it really high if I compare it to other 22 inch monitors on the market. I really like the non-glossy coating as well.

Conclusion: The Dell 2209WA is a quite chep screen (around $270) – with excellent image quality and the ability to tilt and rotate the screen. A great catch!