Earlier this year Sony Xperia smartphones hit the market Z2. For any tablet market threaten competitors with Xperia Sony Tablet Z2, which of course is a tablet version of the Xperia Z2. Bringing today's top features, the tablet is also waterproof and dust is the thinnest (6.4 mm) and lightest (439 grams) in the world. 10.1-inch screen is filled by its 1920x1200 pixels, and comes Triluminos technology, LED Live Color, and X-Reality, like the Xperia Z2. Chipset is the latest chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 801, which ensures fast performance with 3GB of RAM in this tablet. Z2 Xperia Tablet also offers better sound quality with digital noise reduction technology (digital noise canceling). This is the main specifications of the Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet:
- Dimensions 172 x 266 x 6,4mm, weight 439 grams
- Waterproof and dust resistance level IP55 / 58
- Android 4.4 Kitkat
- Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset 801: 2.3 GHz quadcore MSM8974AB processor, Adreno 330 GPU
- 3GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, micro SD slot
- 10.1-inch TFT screen resolution of 1920x1200 pixels Full HD Plus
- The main camera 8.1 MP Exmor RS with 4K video recording
- 2,2MP front camera with 1080p video recording
- HSPA +, LTE, NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0
- battery 6000mAh
With the premium price of Rp. 8.999 million, how the Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet opportunities in the face of the top tablets in Indonesia?
Impression Design and Materials
Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet has a thick design with the feel of the Xperia series Z. Using OmniBalance style design brought from the Sony Xperia Z, Z2 Xperia Tablet is very flat in the front and back. There are no buttons on the bottom of the screen. Sony's main tablet is positioned in landscape position, visible from the Sony logo that appears on the upper left side. The lock / power and volume located on the left side has the form and the material is exactly the same buttons on the Xperia Z1, Z2 and Z1 Compact. Button so it feels very small and rather loud when pressed. Infrared port, micro USB slot and a Micro SIM and micro SD is on the upper side, with the design of highly integrated with the overall frame on this 10.1-inch tablet. While the 3.5 mm audio jack is on the bottom left side.
One thing that feels great when holding the tablet Z2 is extremely light weight and ultra-thin design. Roughly speaking, be used fan can still. Combined with the side frame and luxury design, premium spirits in Z2 Tablet feels great. However, to the back of the tablet Z2 does not use glass materials such as Z1, Z1 and Z2 Compact, but the plastic material with rubber finishing / doff. It looks more premium and has a better grip than the glossy plastic, but if exposed to sweat or oil dirt, material like this is hard to clean.
This 10.1-inch tablet itself is considered wasteful entire screen bezel, because the distance between the screen and the bezel ends pretty much on all four sides, compared to a similar sized tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Note or Apple iPad 2 014 10.1 Water. Even so, the handling when holding the tablet itself is very good Z2 as the substance behind the jamming grip, and lightweight so that your hands do not tire more easily when holding with one or two hands.
Xperia Screen Tablet Z2 quite impressive, although the resolution (1920x1200 pixels, 224 ppi) is still less than the Galaxy Note 10.1 in 2014 (2560x1600 pixels, 299 ppi) or iPad Air (2048x1536 pixels, 264 ppi). Triluminos technology has a big hand to deliver a richer color and a wider color gamut for more vivid images. In addition, X-Reality Mobile comes when you look at a photo or video, to produce a sharper image reproduction, bright and qualified.
Character impressed reddish color on the screen, when compared with Samsung (bluish) or Apple (yellowish). If you do not like the default color of characters, you can change the white balance settings in Settings-Display menus, where there are three points that you can change, ie, R (red / red), G (green / green) and B (blue / blue). In terms of contrast and black levels, the tablet is quite nice and clean, while the viewing angle, the image on the display remains clearly visible at extreme angles, in other words better than the Xperia Z1. One disadvantage Z2 Tablet screen is a bit reflective surface.
Interface and Input Text
For ease of typing, you can customize the default keyboard (Xperia keyboard) with a few steps, as per your preference. Suppose what you want autocorrect or not, studying the keyboard let you in Gmail, Facebook, Twitter or SMS so that more precise predictions and suggestions, to enable gestures (like Swype), and change the background color and the color of the display keyboard. The default keyboard is quite comfortable, even if not satisfied, there are two other modes are available, such as Thumb Keyboard (keyboard is split into two for easy typing in landscape mode), or mini-keyboard. Interestingly, for a mini keyboard, the keyboard layout can be shifted to any area on the screen, as well as the application of the Small Apps.
Not seen any big difference at the interface on the smartphone Xperia Z1 / Z2 Z2 compared to this tablet. Using Sony's unique appearance, the interface can be used in four directions depending on the position of the screen. Lockscreen clock display, as well as shortcuts to the camera. Effect when unlock the lockscreen is star dust effects are simply gorgeous. Utilizing the width of the screen, there are two models that can be unmasked notification curtain. Said curtain to the left to display the incoming notification, while if the curtain right side revealed, there is the Quick Settings as shortcuts to Settings, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Location and so on. Quick Settings can be added or changed order.
Once again Sony Tablet Z2 maximize the amount of screen by making that can accommodate 8x7 Homescreen application icons. Homescreen course can be decorated with widgets, both innate and that you download yourself. Homescreen Widgets can be added, Apps, Wallpapers and Themes dressing. After replacing Themes, the display does not really change, only about wallpaper and accent colors on the interface only. The main menu is arranged in a 8x4 app icons can be organized alphabetically, newest, the most commonly used or as you like it. Now there is no frame box on the order of application, so it looks cleaner.
One more application that utilizes a large screen and a top-class specifications in Z2 is Small Tablet Apps. You can browse, calculate on the calculator, make notes, and so the field is small. Some Small Apps can be enlarged, some do not, but it certainly could be removable. On the left of the notification curtain Small Apps icon appears, you can cut / eliminate all applications Small Apps that are active here. There are only a few Small Apps available, but you can add more good by changing into a Small Apps widget, or download it from the Play Store, there are made by Sony and there is also made by a third-party application developers.
Performance on the Xperia Tablet Z2 currently unprecedented. The interface is simple, and very roomy RAM (3GB) and a Snapdragon processor 801 is a perfect blend for super fast performance. Both in open applications and open weight at the same time some of the Small Apps.
Camera and Video Recorder
If the Xperia Z2 and Z1 is emphasized in the field of the camera, with camera and sensors 20,7MP great, for Z2 camera Tablets are not inherited. Looks like the 8MP camera of the Xperia Z Ultra inherited, equally do not have a LED flash, and has openings precisely, the f / 2.4. Indeed, most people think of the tablet, the camera is relatively unimportant. However for the feature is still considered, for example Scene consisting of:
- Superior Auto
- Manual (you can adjust the EV and scene selection as Soft skin, HDR, Night, Sport, and so on)
- background defocus
- AR Effect (taking photos and videos with the virtual scene as dinosaurs and the world in water)
- Creative Effect
- Timeshift Burst (cameras take photos before and after you press the shutter button to take the best)
- Social Live (divide what the camera captured online and live to your Facebook account)
- Sweep Panorama
- Evernote
Its own interface to join the video. For camera settings, there are common things like aspect ratio settings, self timer, smile shutter, preview, burst with longpress, and Face Registration. As for the video settings a bit more, like Self timer, Smile Shutter, Steady Shot (image stabilizer are electrical, not optical), microphone, and preview. There is one more, general settings which include: Quick Launch (you can choose to directly take pictures or record video), Geotagging, touch capture, shutter sound, the data storage and the option to use the volume button as a shutter button or zoom. Overall, the camera interface on the Tablet Z2 is not confusing and lead users to shoot correctly.
The camera in outdoor or indoor conditions are not too impressive. For the size of 8MP, the result looks not sharp. In indoor conditions produced less bright color, somewhat enclosed noise, although it does not change the overall color.
The results of the video recording is pretty good and reliable in recording your daily activities. With 18000kbps bitrate and framerate of 29 fps, which dihadilkan fairly large files, video recording lasted 1 minute produces a file of 132MB.
Image Gallery and Video Players
Just like other Sony devices, photo gallery at Z2 Xperia Tablet named album, while the video player is Movies and music player is the Walkman. In Albums, lots of sharing photos and videos in the order or grouping, such as a camera, folders, favorites, face (using face recognition feature), place and device. Regarding synchronization of course there is, with social networks like Facebook and online photo galleries such as Picasa and Flickr. Photo gallery has a stunning look, and easy to use. Size of thumbnails can be reduced or enlarged by using the pinch gesture on the screen.
It has a full HD screen, of the experience of watching videos on tablets Z2 has been like watching on Sony Bravia TVs. Movies app has a standard display Sony, the video thumbnail to preview last watched a video on it. The thumbnails can be resized by using the pinch gesture. Do not be surprised when you open the video, the screen does not display the video in full immediately. There is no button to change the display in full, but in fact it is quite touching the video once to display to full screen. Through a Gracenote database, you can download information such as a synopsis of the movie or video to play, but not very accurate as well.
Besides attractive appearance, the default video player is quite satisfactory in terms of performance. Mkv video file types, .mp4, .avi and .mov, all can be played smoothly, even up to 4K resolution, we try to play .mp4 video resolution of 3840x2160 pixels downloaded Youtube, and the tablet is able to play with no lag at all. To watch the film is reliable video player, as it supports .srt subtitle file formats. Not only menampilaknnya, but you can customize the display subtitles, such as changing the type, size, font color, font color on the edges or color on the back oatar subtitle to be easily legible. From the sound settings, there is a setting Clear Audio +, dynamic normalizer, and equalizer settings, features surround sound, clear stereo, clear phase, xLOUD and S-Force front surround 3D sound to produce output.
Walkman
Utilizing the album art, again, you can adjust the size of the album art using pinch gestures. The songs themselves can be arranged through artist, album, song, playlist or device. The background color adjusted with Album Art. Overall this legendary music player has a modern look that is very attractive. But not only that, because the sound output is actually maintained by Sony.
There are some inherent features Walkman, such as Clear Audio +, dynamic normalizer, and setting equalizer, features surround sound, clear stereo (for a headset) and the clear phase, xLOUD and S-Force front surround (to produce sound output 3D) for the loudspeaker, so you free to adjust to what the taste of your ears. The sound quality of the earphones clear, the bass is felt, but not to "bury" the other voice. The sound quality will be more clear if you are using a headset with a noise canceling feature. Unfortunately for loudspeaker stereo audio output when the highest volume is not too clear.
Connectivity
- GSM, HSDPA with a kind of micro-SIM card
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac
- Bluetooth 4.0
- NFC
- GPS with compass directional
- Micro USB
- Micro SD up to 64GB
Web Browsing
Resolution of 1920x1200 pixels is sufficient relative to surf the web and cyberspace in general comfortably. The performance of Google Chrome browser is the default browser is good enough for the purposes of your mobile, open heavy sites can still be relied upon. As usual there are some features and settings like incognito mode, bookmarks, request the desktop site, as well as setting history, cache, cookies, privacy and so on.
Benchmarking results
- Antutu: 33 346 points
- Quadrant Standard: 18 021 points
- Nenamark 2: 59.8 fps
- Multitouch Tester: up to 10 touch
- HTML5test.com: 488 out of 555 points
Battery Life
- Tests for screenshots: Within 191 minutes (3 hours 11 minutes) of use (screen stays lit), the battery indicator is reduced by 27 percent
- Watching movies Mkv 1080p Test: Within 120 minutes (2 hours) the battery drops to 15 percent (using a headset, full volume)
Conclusion
With advanced performance and design of ultra-thin premium ultra lightweight at the same time, no exaggeration if we call Z2 Xperia Tablet as one of the best Android devices today. The main hindrance is the high price (Rp. 8.999 million), but its main competitors such as the Apple iPad Water was at a similar price range. Moreover, as a bonus, you get a tablet that is waterproof and dust.
excess
- premium design
- Ultra thin and lightweight
- Waterproof and dust
- Steady performance thanks to alloy the current top-spec hardware
- Left and right stereo loudspeaker
- Android 4.4 KitKat
- The presence of a micro SD slot
shortage
- In terms of features is not much different from the Z1 and Z2 Xperia smartphones
- Shrill sound of the loudspeaker output when high volume
- The back is difficult to clean if dirty
