SONY XPERIA TABLET Z (WIFI+CELLULAR) REVIEW


Sony launched its flagship android tablet namely Xperia tablet Z in India which is priced @ 44,499/-. It is available is Black, White & Purple shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is great. It has corning glass 3 on front and a glass finish polycarbonate material back and feels great in hands. It is slim at 6.9mm and weighs 495gms. It has 10.1 inch WUXGA LED-Backlit LCD display of resolution 1920 x 1200 with 224ppi. The viewing angles are very good and sunlight legibility of the display is average. It runs on Xperia User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.The display has mobile bravia engine 2 which is quite good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 16GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 64GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like Walkman for songs, an Album to store all images and videos and a Movies for playing movies respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n, Wifi dual-band, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) and also has NFC.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 8MP rear camera with autofocus and which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is very good overall. Daytime the images are very good and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is just average due to lack of led flash and could have been better. It does FULL HD1080p@30fps HDR video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 17-18mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is very good and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is just average due to lack of led flash could have been bit better. It also has a 2.2 Mp front camera for selfe's with 1080p video recording and clarity is very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.1.2 Jellybean out of the box upgradable to 4.4.2 kitkat. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064) processor running a quad core 1.5 GHZ (Cortex-A15) with 2GB RAM and Adreno 320 (450MHZ Single core) GPU. The performance is great which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT : 8650.
ANTUTU : 18250.
NENAMARK 2: 60fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Non-Removable Li-Pro 6000 mah battery. The battery life is quite good but has great standby time which is given below.
BROWSING: upto7:20H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 7:40.
STANDBY : upto 1210H (2G) & upto 1190H (3G).

PROS
*Excellent build quality in a slim n light profile.
*Pretty good display & viewing angle.
*Great Performance.
*Very good camera and video recording clarity overall.
*NFC & USB OTG support as well as IR blaster.
*Quite good loudspeaker could have been better.
*Quite good battery life.
*IP57 Dust & Water Resistant. 

CONS
*Non-Removable Battery and its capacity is quite less. 
*Display could have had higher resolution as sunlight legibility is average still pretty good though .
*No Led flash.
*Bit pricy.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.5/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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