Review Sony Xperia Tablet Z

Xperia Tablet Z got a very special place in the long list of iconic designs by Sony. Xperia One of the best tablet around her, Z Design inherit a very slim smartphone of his colleagues, one of its water resistant, the Z also earn extra points with her ​​lover crowd extraordinary.

Here is another highest (and lowest) on the Sony Xperia Tablet Z specification sheet:

The main features

• 6.9mm slim tablet with IP57 certified, dust and water resistant (up to 1m for 30 mins)
• 10.1 "16M-color TFT capacitive touchscreen resolution of WUXGA (1920 x 1200 pixels), Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2
• 1.5 GHz quad-core Krait CPU, Adreno 320, 2GB RAM, Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 chipset
• Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean
• Optional Quad-band GPRS / EDGE, tri-band 3G with HSPA connectivity (HSDPA, 42 Mbps, HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps), penta-band 4G LTE (100Mbps down, 50Mbps up)
• 16GB built-in memory
• microSD card slot
• 8 MP autofocus camera
• 2.2MP front-facing camera
• 1080p HD video recording @ 30 fps with stereo audio
• Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
• Stereo Bluetooth v4.0
• MHL microUSB 2.0
• • Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• infrared
• GPS with A-GPS support; digital compass
• 1080p MKV and SD XviD / DivX video support
• Accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer
• 6000 mAh Li-Po battery

The main drawback

• Running the old Android version
• The screen has poor visibility outdoors
• Audio output quality is not equivalent to the other tablet on the market
• Using the previous generation chipset, slightly slower than the best current
• 6,000 mAh battery is not very big for a 10.1 "tablet

WUXGA resolution on the "10.1 with a 224ppi screen is much better than what the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (149ppi) and quite close to the iPad 4 display (264ppi). Chipset and Android OS version is a little outdated, but neither is a deal-breaker in the book our-books.

We should mention waterproof, of course, very few tablets have. Tablet Z predecessor, IPX-4 certified Tablet S, just splash-proof. An IP57 tablets like Tablet Z on the other hand can withstand water jets and even immersion.