Sony Xperia Tablet Z Review

The Sony Xperia Tablet Z offers a refreshingly thin and light design, with great gaming performance, and a sharp display. Outstanding waterproofing, the MHL association, and expandable storage are notably liked extras.

The bad: $500 for 16GB of storage is a heavy price rise weighed against Sony’s previous pill entry, and the tablet’s poor network performance and slow app loading pieces into its value. The low-light camera function isn’t as efficient as a traditional flash.

Underneath line: Though awash in functions, the Xperia Tablet Z's $500 value is a extremely bitter pill to swallow each time a better, cheaper substitute exists for $100 less.

The Sony Xperia Tablet Z will be the thinnest and lightest huge pill I have yet used. A well known fact made somewhat more remarkable considering that Sony doesn't skimp physical features. An MHL connection, expanding storage, and two better-than-decent cameras tablet with quality cameras remain relatively anomalous all made the cut.

The Tablet Z is also fully waterproof: I have had it immersed in two a foot of water for minutes at a time and have thoroughly hosed it down with an amount of fervency only the most careful of corrections officers may relate to. However after a quick towel-off, it works perfectly.

Well, 'correctly' for your Tablet Z. It's suffering from slow Wi-Fi speeds, programs that take a bit too much time to load, and a top price tag for the embedded 16GB of storage. In comparison, the Nexus 10 is $100 cheaper and faster. Google's tablet remains the big Android tablet of choice.

But, if you fancy yourself consuming the latest bout of 'Scandal' while placing in your bath-tub and desire complete impunity from water splashes and the sporadic random dunking, there is not a better capsule currently designed for you.

Design

I am not a fan of jagged edges on tablet. If you have an option or some other physical characteristic that stands apart from the tablet's human body, I have a tendency to observe it. And by 'notice it,' after all hate it. The iPad's buttons are responsible of this, and I was very happy to note that Apple corrected this admittedly small error with the iPad Mini.

The Sony Xperia Tablet Z's thin, relatively prickly amount musician juts out of its left border and while this makes it easy to find, it is also not one of the most desirable bit of plastic to unintentionally run your hand across.

I am also perhaps not a lover of the Z's hard plastic side design. While I am sure it helps protect what's normally a reasonably thin human body, it's a touch too thin and unyielding for my tastes.

Fortuitously, these are actually the sole real style gripes I have with the Tablet Z. It's normally impressively light and incredibly thin for a 10-incher; however, those that equate 'quality' with metal-embossed backs may be disappointed by the Tablet Z's applied plastic posterior, which seems all-too eager to undertake greasy fingerprints.

Along the left border, above-the size rocker is a round gold energy switch that, like its spindly neighbor below it, sticks out from the tablet's body. However, due to its curved body, it's in a position to do so with no troublesome real unpleasantness. Speaker grilles adorn the feet of the left and right edges: an area decision I've not exactly seen on a tablet before.

The Tablet Z's human anatomy feature three distinct ports: a headphone jack, MHL connection, and a microSD port. All three might be covered by attached door flaps that seal each interface close when closed, altering the tablet into an effortlessly waterproof device.

The gates for the interface were a bit hard to open until I observed a little slit to the bottom of every I could push a fingernail into. That's kind of a criticism, but I realize why Sony perhaps did not want the gates on its waterproof tablet to become quickly removed.

Just how waterproof is it?

According to Sony, the Tablet Z could be absorbed in up to 3 feet of fresh water for up to half an hour without sustaining injury. Until I had actually spent enough time with it to create most of the review I was hesitant to actually test this out on my review system. I guess I just was not all that confident in how successful it would be at remaining dry.

Nevertheless, I did left it submerged by 50 percent a foot of water for a good 10 minutes and use a kitchen tap hose to spray the tablet down out of every possible direction. Following a quick wipe-off using a paper towel, the product worked normally.