Sony Xperia tablet Z : The lightest and smallest LTE tablet

Sony Xperia Z tablet is the lightest and smallest LTE tablet today. It’s a 10.1-inch device. It had come to fight in the market with the leaders of the market such as the iPad 4, 

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. The device is the tablet version of the Sony’s new mobile Xperia Z.

It is the improved version of the Sony Xperia tablet S. The tablet can be said the best tablet from Sony. Here’s the review of the new tablet.

Size and build

The device runs on Android Jelly Bean. The tablet weights 495g. The device is a great surprise from Sony, that it’s the lightest LTE tablet. It overcomes the light weight iPad 4 that’s 660g and Samsung Note 10.1, which weights 597g.

The design and body is adopted from the Xperia Z phone. The tablet is having a slim body of 6.9mm in depth. The dimension of the tablet is 266 x 172 x 6.9 mm, which measures 10.47 x 6.77 x 0.27-inches.

The device has an IP57 certified - dust proof and water resistant body. The back of the tablet is made of reinforced polymer. The device has a good grip, that’s it will not slip from hand.

The device is easy to carry and can be handled very easily.

Features

The device is packed fully with features. It’s same like the Sony Xperia Z phone, its waterproof up to 1m for up to 20 minutes. The device allows touches with wet hands. From this we can say that it’s most suitable for ladies, that’s it can be used in kitchen while working.

The tablet allows connecting with all the Sony devices, and thus forming a Sony network. The tablet had UI, which is same to the Xperia Z.

The other features in the tablet are SNS integration, TV-out (via MHL A/V link), XviD/DivX/MKV/WMV/MP4/H.264/H.263 player, MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player, Organizer, Document viewer, Photo viewer/editor, Voice memo, and Predictive text input.

The sensors in the phone are Accelerometer, gyro, and compass. The phone also has GPS with A-GPS support and GLONASS. Java also can be used via Java MIDP emulator.

The connections allowed in the phone include WiFi, Bluetooth, DLNA, and NFC. The tablet can b used as the remote for your TV, like most of the new tablets and smartphones does. 

The device’s WiFi is Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, with DLNA, and Wi-Fi hotspot.

The tablet also have 3D surround sound enhancement. Micro-USB v2.0 port is also included in the tablet.

Performance

The tablet is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor, which is 1.5GHz. Sony is the first company and the Xperia Z tablet is the first device to work on this chip.

Quad-core 1.5 GHz Krait is the CPU of the phone. The phone is available in 16, 32, and 64GB versions. The device also has a microSD slot which can be expanded up to 64GB. 

The device has a 2GB of RAM, which will increase its speed and boost the device.

Screen

The tablet has a 10.1-inch screen, which has a resolution of 1920 x 1200-pixel. The tablet’s contrast and sharpness is adjusted using the Bravia mobile engine 2, which is the same featured in the Xperia Z mobile.

Sony says that the tablet is having the widest colour spectrum, which any other tablets have. The tablet has four speakers. Two are placed in the side, and the other two are in the bottom edge.

The idea of the company is that, the two speakers will not get covered anyway, if you hold it in your hand or placed in a case. The sound will not get disrupted and the effect will be fully loaded.

The screen is protected by a Shatter proof and scratch-resistant glass and Mobile Bravia engine 2.

Camera

The camera has an 8MP rear camera. The tablet also has a 2MP front-facing camera. The camera has an UI similar to the Sony CyberShot camera. It also has superior Auto mode, which is seen in the CyberShot cameras.

The camera has usual arty effects, with Sweep Panorama and a 10fps burst mode. The rear camera resolution is 3264x2448 pixels.  Autofocusis also included in the camera features.

The other features of the camera are Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, and HDR. The tablet allows video capturing at a resolution of Yes, 1080pixels, at 30fps.

Battery        

The tablet also has features to save battery power like in the Sony Xperia Z phone. The Battery Stamina mode boosts the excising power up to 8 hours. When it’s on it do the work, which Game booster do in PC’s. It turns of all unessential functions and save battery power.

The settings of the Battery Stamina Mode can be customised, and can turn on certain wanted functions. 

The device has a non-removable Li-Po 6000 mAh battery. It gives a stand by up to 1230 hours in 2G and up to 1270 hours in 3G. It provides a talk time up to 10 hours and music play up to 11 hours.

After Words

The Sony Xperia tablet is one of the best tablets other than from Apple. There are no great challenges from market ruler such as Samsung at present. It is a great tablet that offers the features for its price. The price of the tablet is $844.

It offers many features that many of the other tablets have like the Waterproof feature. It will be released soon. It offers everything that a good tablet needs. It’s the best tablet at the price of $844.

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Asus Padfone 2 : A Mobile in a Tablet!

Phones are becoming bigger and bigger, now a days. This will change the mobiles into tablets in future. Asus also is taking a step to it. The new Padfone 2 slides on the back of a tablet. Get surprise by reading the previous line? Yes, it’s a phone in a tablet. We can say that it’s an offer; buy one tab get a mobile free.

The idea of Asus is very good, because you can save your money, space, and weight the new Padfone. There are many rivals for the tablet as well as the mobile. The phone is sliding in the back of the tablet as shown in the below picture.

One of the main problems of the tablet is that, if we take away the phone the space is empty blank. But I know many of you will no t take it as a big problem.

The main rivals of the tablet are iPad 4, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 or the Sony Xperia Tablet Z. Let’s first take look on the phones specs and features and after the tablet’s.

Mobile Phone

Size and build

The phone has a 4.7-inch Screen. Its OS is Android 4.1.1 Jelly bean. The dimension of the screen is 137.9 x 68.9 x 9 mm which means 5.43 x 2.71 x 0.35-inches. It weights only 135g.

The device fells very secure in hands. The white glossy front is in contrast to a matte. It has a very long battery life, which is half of a tablet.

The design of the phone is very good to handle, and is very beautiful. Different from other phones the SIM card slot is placed on the top edge of the Padfone. The slot seems to be a tightly sealed unit. But it’s very easy to open and close with your nails.

The non-removable battery is placed inside the phone, so there is no need to open the phone until it wants to be repaired.

The body is not as good as the body of other phones such as HTC One or iPhone 5.

The phone is not thick as of the Lumia phones. It’s only has a standard height, weight and fat. It’s not so wider, but it satisfies a premium user.

The 4.8-inch display is one of the noticeable features of the phone. Although it’s comfortable in hand, it’s not a slim-beauty like the iPhone 5 or Galaxy S4.

The display is awesome, though it doesn’t have a full HD display like that of HTC One, and Sony Xperia Z. The resolution is little lesser than the LG Google Nexus 4.

Screen

The phone presents a rich, glossy, and colourful display. The phone has a display of Super IPS+ LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours. Its display offers a quality of 312 pixels per inch density.

It also allows multitouch. Its display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass. The colour reproduction and the contrast of the display are very good. The screen resolution is 720 x 1280 pixels.

Camera

The camera of Padfone 2 stands with the LG Optimus G, Sony Xperia Z, and Samsung Galaxy S4. It is of 13 Megapixel. The camera performs well in low-light conditions.

It has a position that’s far ahead from HTC One’s camera which’s 4 Ultrapixel. There are some difference between both; the HTC One’s sensor produce bigger pixels to suck more light.

The image taking in the phone is somewhat similar to the older Nokia smartphones. If you want to capture a full screen image, you need to reduce the quality o 10MP from 13MP. 

The ratio so has black bars at the ends of the display.

The features such as the Scene settings and the HDR are very useful. The photos taken are sharp and crisp.

The images taken with flash aren’t bad. The low-light situations are the worst time to take images in most mobile cameras. To avoid this HTC One is featured with an Ultrapixel camera. There is no physical camera button, but the camera option is available in the lock screen.

The phone has a front facing camera of 1.2Megapixel resolution. The front facing camera is hidden when placed on the tablet’s docking section. To avoid the lack of a front camera in the front of the tablet, it has its own 1MP camera.

The rear camera of the phone acts as the tablet’s main camera. When the phone is docked the rear camera is exposed off.

The Padfone shoots video at 60 frames per second at 720p resolution or 1080p if you settle for 30fps.

The other features of the camera are Geo-tagging, touch focus, and face detection.

Performance and features

The Padfone 2 is powered by a Qualcomm 1.5 GHz quad-cores chip. The CPU is Quad-core 1.5 GHz Krait. The GPU of the phone is Qualcomm GPU. These specifications are enough to run the phone smoothly and fast. The multiple tasks are good in the phone.

The device is available in 16, 32, and 64 GB. The device has a 2 GB of RAM. Gaming on the phone doesn’t upset us, it gives good results. The multiple tasks done on the phone doesn’t get stuck off.

There are many features in the phone such as the SNS integration, Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, TV-out (via MHL A/V link), ASUS Web Storage (50 GB storage), MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player, MP4/H.264/H.263 player, Organizer, Document viewer, Photo viewer/editor, Voice memo/dial, and Predictive text input (Swype).

The sensors of the phone are Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, and compass. Java can be used in the phone through Java MIDP emulator. GPS with A-GPS support is also included in the phone.

Asus also offers features such as Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP and WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, dual-band, and Wi-Fi hotspot.

Docking Station-tablet

The Padfone 2’s phone docking station is very impressive and quite smart. It is a tablet. 

The phone can be fitted on the backside of the tablet. There is no chance for a fear that, if it will slip from the docking station, because its design is enough to hold the Padfone 2.

One of the main features of the tablet is that, if we dock the phone in the tablet it will not bulk up the device’s back. The 724g tablet and the 135g phone makes the device heavier. Totally it weights up 859g.

Holding the device landscape orientation, it makes a doubt in the user that it may slips and fall. The design of the tablet is good, and it’s made for phone to keep.

The tablet’s body and the performance are very smooth. Take a look at the docking station-tablet’s specs and features.

Screen and Performance

The tablet’s display is good enough but no other extra features or special display, because Asus had taken more care to make the phones display.

The image quality of the tablet is only 149ppi, which is far behind the phone’s display which is 312ppi.

The dimension of the docking station is 273 x 176.9 x 13.55 mm. The tablet is 10.1-inches in size. It comes with an IPS LCD display.

Asus haven’t taken care to make the tablet a better one, as a result, for sound the tablet only have a single speaker which is not enough for such a tablet.

The processor of the tablet is same as that of the phone- Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 8260A Dual-Core 1.5 GHz. The RAM and storage is the same.

The processor in the tablet is not enough to perform heavy multiple tasks in such a large device. Small multiple tasks are supported by the tab with less or no difficulty.

The battery offers a stand-by up to 352h and a talk time up to 16h. The power management of the tablet is good, as it tries to save maximum charge.

Software    

There are many apps in the phone and the tablet. You can find many special extra apps in tablet such as the Pad only, though most work on both phone and tablet.

There are other apps like Buddy-Buzz, which collect social networking information from Twitter and Facebook.

There are also apps which help you to switch between the tablet and the phone quickly. There are other apps that shares posts across social networks.

After Words

There may be many questions, when we see saving, money, space and weight this way. There are many tablets and mobiles that are available in this price.

Everybody may think “what is the need of such a thing”? This question wants to be asked to the company itself. But this is a well designed, smart, and powerful device. The price of the device is £599.

Anyway this is a good offer from Asus, for those who need a tablet and a phone, that can be easily carried anywhere without any troubles.

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Dell XPS 18 : The tablet-cum-desktop gadget

One of the most famous PC makers Dell Corporation unveiled their new all-in-one touchscreen tablet-cum-desktop Dell XPS 18. The device runs on Windows 8. The device makes challenge to the Sony Vaio Tap 20, Panasonic 4K, and Asus Transformer AiO.

The device is a giant tab-cum-PC. The device comes with a stand that makes it look a PC monitor. It also has a Bluetooth key supplied with it, it is very useful. A Bluetooth mouse is also included in the pack. You can use it as a convectional desktop PC when you need. The company says that the device is target professional families. This is a tab that’s packed with superb features. Have a look at its specs and features.                                                               

Size and Build
The device has an 18.4-inch full HD screen. The 18-ich screen is widely used as desktop monitors. The Dell XPS 18 weights 2.2kg. It is only 4.3mm thick, so it’s portable, but the comparatively big screen makes it difficult.

It runs on a full desktop version of Windows 8. The screen has a resolution of 1080px. It looks like a desktop monitor, than a tablet on its stand.

Features

The device has the features of a tablet as well as a desktop. It can be used for anything, videos, movies, songs and it does everything that a desktop can do. It can also be used on a flat surface.

It is also suited for multiplayer gaming. As in every Windows 8 tablet, apps can be downloaded from the Windows store, and used. One of the great features of the device is that up to four individuals can take control over the device and use it.

It has a good quality of sound. The contrast and colour reproduction is very good in the tab.

The device has WiFi, Bluetooth, and Intel wireless display. The device has 2 USB 3.0 ports. It also has an 8:1media card reader

Performance

The device is powered by an Intel core i5-3337u processor. It has storage of 32GB. It has a 4GB of RAM. The device works very well with multiple tasks. It’s very fast and easy to use.

After Words

Even though the tablet looks big, Dell doesn’t point it. It touchscreen is very responsive.  It can be said the best touchscreen made for Windows 8.

The theory of the tablet-cum-desktop is that, it can be used as a worksheet for professionals and a game console for the kids.

The device makes an end for the separate-separate computer for each in a family, as it can be used as a tablet and a desktop.

It is certainly an impressive product with good features. It’s sure that many companies will come with tablet-com-desktop like this.

The Dell XPS 18’s price is £849 and is affordable for professionals. The tablet will be available in markets on 16^th April 2013. It’s a very nice offer for those it targets.

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Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 : Good but still having lack of a camera

The latest tablet from the shopping website firm is the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9. It is the brother of the older version from the same firm Amazon Kindle Fire HD. The model was launched in the USA last year but was late to arrive in other countries.

As the name indicates the screen size is 8.9-inches. As the competition tights there are many upcoming rivals such as the iPad Mini, Google Nexus 7, Google Nexus 10, Nook HD, and Nook HD+. We are a little bit late, but we present a full review of the product here.

Size and Build

The new Kindle Fire weights 567g and is 8.8mm thick. This is a very comfortable size to hold. It is lighter than the iPad 4. But the size and the weight is not in a proper proportion, if the tab was 7-inch, it will be nice.

The tablet has a good grip on its backside. You will also get a case to protect your tablet from scratches, which is included in the pack.

The headphone jack is placed in the right edge of the tab. The power button and the volume rocker are also placed along with the headphone jack in the right side. The design is very sleek and is very attractive in the first look itself.

The tablet also supports micro HDMI. The micro HDMI port and the USB ports for charging are placed at the underside of the tablet. The phone doesn’t support Micro SD and GSM SIM’s.  The Bluetooth is limited to the use of gadgets like Bluetooth headphone and keyboard.

Screen

The device has an 8.9-inch display with a dimension of 240 x 164 x 8.8 mm (9.45 x 6.46 x 0.35 inches. The resolution of the phone is 1920x1200 pixels. The screen quality is 254ppi, which is relatively less than the present tablets and smartphones.

The phone has an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, with 16M colours. The device also supports 10 finger multitouches.

As the names denotes the display is full HD. The device screen is not comfortable for long time use, because the eyes irritated with a long time use.But the eBook reading gives a better result.

Content

The content of the Kindle Fire HD lies in the Kindle store. The store gives access to 22 million movies TV shows, songs, apps, games, books, audio-books and magazines with over 1.5 million Kindle books and over 800,000 books priced at £3.99 or less.

Customers who are new to Prime get one free month of Amazon Prime when they purchase the Kindle Fire HD 8.9.

Features

The device comes with a lot of features, with it such as the Facebook integration, HDMI port, MP4/VP8/H.263 player, MP3/WAV/AAC/OGG/E-AC-3 player, Organizer, Document viewer, Photo viewer/editor, Free cloud storage for all Amazon content and Text-to-Speech english-language content reader.

The phone also has sensors such as Accelerometer and gyro. The browser    featured in the phone is Amazon Silk.

Video and Audio

The Kindle HD presents very good videos and audios with best quality. The company presents many features with the tab such as the IMDb, which tells you which are the actors featured in the video.

Amazon also gives Lovefilm Instant subscription with the tab. This allows you to watch Video channels on your Kindle. You can also add videos to watch later in the tab. The new Lovefilm subscribers will get a free 30-day trail with it.

The tablet comes with Dolby Digital Plus sound enhancement and loudspeakers, which gives you a theatre effect on audios. The speakers are located on the back side of the tablet.

Camera

One of the main problem of the phone is it doesn’t have a rear camera. The 1.3MP front- facing camera is not capable for taking good quality videos or images.

The camera can be used for video calling. The lack of a main camera is the most, hated thing of the device. The photos tab allows you to upload photos taken in the camera directly to social networking sites like, facebook.

Anyway the camera still disappoints us, and stops from buying the tab.

Performance

The device is powered by the new generation Texas OMAP 4470 processor.  The graphics of the Kindle HD is SGX544 graphics engine, meaning that operation is a fair bit zippier than on its 7-inch sibling.

The device runs on Android OS, v4.0 customized version, which performs good on the tablet.

Battery

Amazon offers a 10 hour battery life for its new Kindle HD. The battery proves the promise of Amazon. The device has a Lion Battery. It offers long use of apps, movies, and audios without charge lose.

The device has a USB charging cable. It doesn’t have a plug. So you need to charge the device from computer or USB enabled charger plug.

After Words

This is the Kindle from Amazon. The device provides a lot of apps. We can say it is a movie tab, because it is one of the best tablets for watching movies. The device is only available in black colour.

The only problem of the tablet is doesn’t have a rear camera. The user interface is very nice, easy to use, and is very user-friendly. The design of the tablet is also nice.

The device has no microSD port; it is also a problem because the in-build storage available is only up to 32GB. It will be good if the size was reduced to 7-inch and a camera and a microSD was included.

The price quoted for 16GB is £229, and for 32GB is £259. It is a very good tab and is best for office uses, and enterprises.

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Lenovo ThinkPad 2 : Not so great, but decent

Lenovo ThinkPad 2 is the latest tablet from the tier brand Lenovo. It is a combination of all-day battery life, touch and the Windows 8 style. The main rivals are Dell Latitude and Microsoft Surface Pro. From the features we can say that the rivals have an upper hand. 

The battery life is higher for Lenovo ThinkPad 2 than the rivals. Looking the overall features we can say the device is good but not up to the mark. Let’s take a look at its different specs and features.

Design and features

The ThinkPad looks like a professional tab, with a black Polycarbonate frame over the internal magnesium frame. The tab measures about 7 by 10.5 by 0.34 inches (HWD) and weighs a scant 1.21 pounds alone. It has a built-in slot to carry its stylus. The device is easy to carry and handle.

The ThinkPad 2 has a micro-USB port for charging, MicroSD, mini HDMI out port, a docking port, volume, power, rotate lock, a low-power USB and a SIM port on its side. The SIM slot also supplies authentication to an optional WWAN radio.

The device is also featured with a Bluetooth keyboard, which is very useful. It is very comfortable, it has an inbuilt optical TrackPoint and mouse buttons. The keyboard has no palm rest, so it is best for tabletops. The device has very low-grip, so if you keep it on your lap, be careful it may slip. The tablet has two slits to fit the keyboard on the tab.

The Bluetooth keyboard has its own batteries like Bluetooth. It doesn’t   auxiliary power like the keyboard docks for the HP Envy or Acer Iconia W510.

The ThinkPad 2 is charged using a micro-USB charger, which is used in almost all tablets and smartphones today. This makes it a multi charger. It can be also charged using PC with USB cable also.

Lenovo offers an extra vehicle charger with the tablet at $ 20 for charging, when you are in your vehicle.

The ThinkPad 2 has a regular 2.0 USB port seen in laps and PC’s. So you can connect your printers, mouse, keyboard and Pen drives with the device. 

But the port supplies only a few watts on power, so you can’t plug large external drives to the tablet. This regular port can be found with only a few tabs, so it is a plus for the device. But the main rivals including Dell Latitude has full power USB ports. Some of the other Ultrabooks also have full power ports, although if they are mini.

The ThinkPad 2 can be connected to 2.4GHz and 5GHz 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 is also supported, though they are not widely available. GPS is also included.

The ThinkPad 2 has 10.1-inch screen, which has an IPS display with a 1,366-by-768 resolution. You can playback 720p HD content, but 1080p content will be scaled down.

The device has a 5-finger multitouch display. When the stylus comes close to the screen to the screen, the capacitive touch sensors turn off, so you aren't making marks with your palm when you're actually drawing on the screen with the stylus.

The device has a bright screen, with a wide angle view from all sides. The accelerometer makes sure that screen elements point up at all times.

The ThinkPad 2 comes with sensors such as Compass, Ambient light sensor, Proximity sensor, and Sensor hub. It is also featured with Bluetooth 4.0.

Performance

The ThinkPad 2 is featured with a 1.80GHz Intel Atom Z2760 processor. The device has LPDD2 SD RAM of 2GB and 64GB of storage. That is a bit less, when compared to the rivals. 

In the device every bit of space is precious, because it is 33.4GB of 50GB after the partition and the installation of apps. This happened because; the OS uses more than 16GB of space. The only way to recover the space problem is adding a MicroSD.

There are many pre-installed apps such as Lenovo Companion, Skitch Touch, Evernote Touch, Lenovo Support, Accuweather, Amazon Kindle, Skype, rara.com, a Lenovo Settings app, Intel AppUp, Lenovo Cloud Storage (SugarSync), QuickSnip (clipping/screenshot utility) and Norton Studio (security). There is another Lenovo app which acts like start menu in Windows 7, named as Lenovo Quicklaunch.

The ThinkPad 2 comes with a 2MP camera in the front and an 8MP camera with LED flash in the rear. Lenovo offers a one year standard warranty for the device.

The Intel Atom Z2760 processor supports only 32-bit operating system. Today many 32-bit Windows 8 software and applications are available in market, so that feature is a good one. The ThinkPad 2 didn’t limit your internet browsing to Internet Explorer, as you can use many others.

Like all other Atom processor tabs, Lenovo ThinkPad also offers a 10-hour battery life. This also means that it is not well working with multimedia apps and softwares. We can surely say that most of the rivals have their own market above ThinkPad 2. See this chart to know the ThinkPad 2’s and its rival’s performance.

After Words

·         We can say that ThinkPad 2 is a decent Windows 8 tab. It doesn’t have any distinctive features, but is able to compete with Atom powered rivals. One of the best features of the tab is that, it is more portable than the other rivals. It performance is only average, but is still a good tab at the price point of $729.

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