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Sony Xperia Z SGP311U1/B 10.1-Inch 16GB Tablet
Sony tab ( Xperia Z SGP ), it's freaking waterproof! It can stay in up to three feet of water for up to half an hour. Movie time and bath time, together at last.
Design
Oh, hello, gorgeous. Simply put, when you first pick up Xperia Tablet Z, you'll think, "There's no way this thing actually turns on or does anything." It just feels impossibly thin and light. At 0.27 inches (6.9 millimeters), it is the thinnest tablet in the world (the iPad Mini is 7.2 millimeters, for comparison). At 17.46 ounces (495 grams), it's the lightest full-sized tablet we've seen (the current generati
on iPad is 23.35 ounces). Not only that, it's perfectly balanced. You can
comfortably hold it one-handed in landscape mode. It's even thinner than the Samsung Galaxy S4, which is one of the thinnest phones out there.
Using It
sony tab (The Xperia Tablet Z )is running Sony's custom skin on top of Android. On the plus side, the tablet version of this skin is extremely intuitive to use. Dedicated buttons for Google Now, Voice Search, adding apps/widgets, and the remote control are all very easy to understand. Sony also put in some power management tools that gives you standby times to the tune of many days. Essentially, it turns off your data connection when the screen is off, but you can whitelist apps (like Gmail, for example) so you get important notifications. It's very nicely done. Sony did, however, put more than a dozen of its own apps on the tablet, many of which are either inferior replacements of the standard Android apps (Sony's Album < Android's Gallery), or services you really don't need (Wi-Fi Checker? Consumers were clamoring for that?). It managed to build a remote control app that works better than any we've used, but it failed to integrate a guide to what's on, like HTC and Samsung did. Sony has an app for that, but it's only compatible with networked devices. Not very helpful.
Correction: The TV SideView for Tablets app does integrate the IR blaster features. The problem was that there's just a regular TV SideView app in the app store as well, which was the number one result, so we didn't realize there was a tablet specific version. (Sony: If you're going to pre-load the tablet with apps, why not put that one on there?) Anyway, the good news is that it's intutive and it works extremely well, so nicely done there.
In terms of day to day usage, we generally threw it in a backpack (usually with no protection) and it was light and thin enough that we literally forgot it was there multiple times and tossed our bag around more roughly than we would have. After a week of such abuse the tablet doesn't have a scratch on it, though we'd definitely still recommend getting a case. We also verified the waterproof claims, taking it into the shower with us and then leaving it submerged in a bath while a video played. One of the Tablet Z's slick tricks is that the touchscreen will actually work reasonably well when wet. You couldn't game with it like that, but it was good enough for controlling basic functions.
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comfortably hold it one-handed in landscape mode. It's even thinner than the Samsung Galaxy S4, which is one of the thinnest phones out there.Using It
sony tab (The Xperia Tablet Z )is running Sony's custom skin on top of Android. On the plus side, the tablet version of this skin is extremely intuitive to use. Dedicated buttons for Google Now, Voice Search, adding apps/widgets, and the remote control are all very easy to understand. Sony also put in some power management tools that gives you standby times to the tune of many days. Essentially, it turns off your data connection when the screen is off, but you can whitelist apps (like Gmail, for example) so you get important notifications. It's very nicely done. Sony did, however, put more than a dozen of its own apps on the tablet, many of which are either inferior replacements of the standard Android apps (Sony's Album < Android's Gallery), or services you really don't need (Wi-Fi Checker? Consumers were clamoring for that?). It managed to build a remote control app that works better than any we've used, but it failed to integrate a guide to what's on, like HTC and Samsung did. Sony has an app for that, but it's only compatible with networked devices. Not very helpful.
Correction: The TV SideView for Tablets app does integrate the IR blaster features. The problem was that there's just a regular TV SideView app in the app store as well, which was the number one result, so we didn't realize there was a tablet specific version. (Sony: If you're going to pre-load the tablet with apps, why not put that one on there?) Anyway, the good news is that it's intutive and it works extremely well, so nicely done there.
In terms of day to day usage, we generally threw it in a backpack (usually with no protection) and it was light and thin enough that we literally forgot it was there multiple times and tossed our bag around more roughly than we would have. After a week of such abuse the tablet doesn't have a scratch on it, though we'd definitely still recommend getting a case. We also verified the waterproof claims, taking it into the shower with us and then leaving it submerged in a bath while a video played. One of the Tablet Z's slick tricks is that the touchscreen will actually work reasonably well when wet. You couldn't game with it like that, but it was good enough for controlling basic functions.
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