Sony's 10.1-inch XPERIA Z2 tablet is 6.4mm thick and weighs 439g. It is supported by a 2.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset with 3GB of RAM and 16GB of internal memory. Nowadays it is no longer enough to make a good-looking tray. In order to succeed in a crowded sector, manufacturers must also offer outstanding features. It is to be denied that Sony's 10.1-inch XPERIA Z2 tablet is disappointed on the other side of the equation. One area in which the Sony XPERIA Z2 Tablet has an advantage over the competition is the fact that it is waterproof like the XPERIA Z smartphones. The degree of protection IP58 means that it should survive immersion in 1.5 m of water for up to 30 minutes. I do not see many office situations where this might be relevant, but it might help if you repeat the workday during a bath. For a good measure, it is also protected from the ingress of dust.
Sony has made a great effort to make the XPERIA Z2 Tablet thin and lightweight – at just 6.4mm, it's the thinnest 10.1-inch tablet I've ever had. Compare for example the 7.5 mm of the iPad Air and the 7.9 mm strength of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 of 2014. The XPERIA Z2 Tablet is also a lightweight with 439 g – the iPad Air comes with 469 g in weight, while the Galaxy Note 10.1 weighs 540 g. The XPERIA Z2 Tablet has a thin and lightweight credential that seems a bit weak, at least to me. I do not want to put this in my travel bag without a solid protective cover; On the other hand, I'm especially happy when I let the iPad Air clatter around with just a smart protective case.
A design curiosity is the screen bezel, which is huge. There is a trade-off between a wide bezel that does not accidentally activate the touchscreen with your fingers, and so wide that it looks old-fashioned. Sony did not do well here. The screen itself is also not very impressive. Although Sony's trilimino and x-reality technologies improve image quality, the display does not quite do that for us. It's great for a range of indoor activities, from website viewing to text reading and movie viewing. However, it lacks brightness, so the image quality suffers outdoors. The screen resolution of 1920×1200 pixels (224 pixels per inch or ppi) of the XPERIA Z2 tablet is behind the high-end competitors. For example, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 has a 1,600 x 2,560-pixel display (299ppi), while the iPad Air packs 1,536 x 2,049 pixels in a 9.7-inch (264ppi) display. This water resistance already mentioned is made possible by flaps that cover the combined Micro SD and SIM slot as well as the Micro USB 2.0 port. I found the flaps a bit fiddly to lift them – and I'm not a fingernail biter.
There are two speakers on the front of the chassis that you may not even notice as the grids are tiny. However, they work well: the stereo effect is clearly audible and the quality is good enough to use the tablet as a background music player while working. This is a big improvement in the sound output of the XPERIA Z2 smartphone we reviewed recently. However, the speaker's position is not ergonomically smart: I covered the grids with one palm when I held the tablet in landscape orientation – until I realized I could turn it upside down and have the speaker grilles on top, with the logo Sony stood on its head. Sony's Android skin seems to work better on the 10.1-inch XPERIA Z2 tablet than on the 5.2-inch XPERIA Z2 smartphone. There is more room to expand, and landscape fits better for some apps than the portrait mode screen. The Walkman app is a typical example – it just looks prettier.
Sony has expanded Android 4.4 with its usual proprietary apps for audio, movies, PlayStation and more. It's a potentially complex mix for Android novices, not least because some Android features are duplicated and the icon design conventions are not uniform. Sony might be well advised to address this aspect of its attitude towards Android devices and at least unify the design approach.
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