Sony’s walked past Apple iPad look-a-like

Sony unveils new captures much of what is good and much of it is frustrating Tablet S for a time the king of consumer electronics. Not content to destroy just another clone iPad punch, Sony has developed a distinctive design. It also contains links to its huge collection of content, including movies and music. It works even PlayStation games.

However, like many things these days, Sony, Tablet S seems much more appealing than the reality turns out to be: good ideas undermines its implementation.

S Tablet now available for order and in stores next week, the system performs "Honeycomb" operation, optimized version of Google Android tablet from the mobile software. Starting at $ 500 for 16 GB, Wi-Fi only model and $ 600 for 32 gigabytes, now rivals the same price.

The Sony 9.4-inch screen is slightly smaller than the iPad, and about 1.3 pounds, the Tablet S is actually a hint: 598 grams compared to 601 grams for the iPad. Make no mistake, if an IPAD, a Galaxy tab or one of the legions of other pills honeycomb cluttering the aisles of Best Buy.

Leaving to others the competition for the production of thinner, flatter the device, Sony has created a sort of rounded-wedge case of the Tablet, a metaphor S. is folded-over newspaper, teardrop-shaped with a thick side of the works to support the unit a bit 'when set in a horizontal position in writing or watching movies.

Takes the form a little 'getting used to. It all seemed natural, when I was holding up, especially when I read the book or newspaper. Horizontally, however, I was initially difficult. If the thin side fell, thick part of the dip efforts. I eventually came to prefer to keep it thick edge down - opposite the way I wanted to put it in an e-mail back. Ultimately, I do not mind the form and also give more recognition to try the Sony, because Apple used to exhort us to "think differently". The real problem is not what they did, but as they did.

Cheap, plasticky

Reaching its light weight, for example, a business sector that feels cheap and plasticky to the sides and back. Controls on and off and volume in the wrong place along one edge to the interior. Connect the charger is difficult: you have to align the legs protruding just so, and I was accidentally remove the cable from the drive or when I tried to use while charging. And pull the door covering the micro USB port and SD card slot feels as if waiting to break.

The brain of the shelf S Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor, the same chip that runs the Galaxy Tab. But the pre-production unit I tested felt much slower than the Galaxy, when scrolling through Windows applications or launch.

Like the Galaxy, is a flash - such as Adobe Systems, a software for viewing Web videos and animations. But it's not a flash - like the light of its direction of travel of the camera when taking pictures or videos. (Not facing the camera, and video chat.) I was more difficult to get the day away from the use of Tablet Battery D, but eight hours is not only the iPad 2, 10

Universal Remote Control

Unusually for a Sony product, I found it at the front of the software. S includes an app that makes a super-duper universal remote for your home audio-visual equipment different. I was able to control not just Sony products but also a Panasonic TV and Motorola set-top box with minimal effort.

S Tablet zippier performance significantly felt when I played that game when I was doing the most mundane tasks. You will be able to download PlayStation games directly to the device, and comes with two pre-installed, the harvest of "Crash Bandicoot" and this is a story that can be used in "Pinball Heroes." Make sure to take the tablet with the fat side down or right to keep their thumbs accidentally pressing the Home button on a pinball frenzy.

The pre-production model I was using could not access Sony Music Unlimited service and unlimited video, I could not tell you how they work well. Ditto for the application that turns the tablet into a S e-book viewer compatible with the Sony drive range of devices, it was not yet available.

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Sony was a bit 'slow to get the game compressed, but the first introduction of the state - an unusual shape, the Android-powered Tablet S - has aroused much curiosity.

The excitement is not only the design, either. The company is one of the few with a space and ecosystem large enough to take the Apple iPad.

The material point of view, it is clear that the company is making a statement about how to live and work with this unit. The basic form of the S platform calls to mind a book or magazine folded, and immediately will allow you to remember the days when people use products obsolete and harmful to the environment based on paper.

But Sony is the first step in this way to change the game or move the ball forward? Or if the company offers a family entry already crowded space?

Whether it is heated, this model is probably a matter of taste, but I found myself in the mind repeatedly, as options in both hands and with one hand and a flat surface. Conical shape allows a little 'easier to write when you have an S on the table.

Tablet S, will be in stores in September for $ 499 (the same as the iPad, 2), is the first of two unique design for the tablets, that Sony is moving this year. The company also publishes the device is copied to another P Tablet to go on sale later this year, which has two screens and can be closed not included, as opposed to a flip phone.

Sony's reputation is a company that has the ability to produce beautiful, high-end products that do not always work very well. Tablet S is no exception.

S Tablet is a standalone device with many advantages in terms of industrial design, but there are some mistakes here that make the device feel a bit cheaper than some of the competition.

The device sports 9.4 inches and weighs 1.33 pounds, while Sony says it is lighter in your hands because of how the shape allows weight to be distributed.

It is unclear whether this is true or not, but the device was essentially plastic definitely less weight in my hands.

The device is powered by a fast processor, and display to use what Sony calls a painful technology "TruBlack" LCD display that the company says offers better contrast and reduce glare.

The device has two cameras: a 3-megapixel shooter on the front and a 5 megapixel model on the back.

But S is a bar of stereo speakers, which produced very sad, poor sound. You would think the people who brought you the Walkman should have come up with something a little 'more time, the audio department - but you'd be wrong.

Of course, most tablets these days are valued based on the software.

In the case of tablets Android, it's not exactly a huge effort, almost all newly released devices run very small variations on a theme.

Sony is no different in the sense that the company has opted for slight adjustments in the operating system from Google, rather than an overhaul.

First of all, Sony offers a variety of custom applications designed to the strengths of the game - namely, fun and games. I had the chance to play some of Sony-exclusive applications and content, such as "Crash Bandicoot" a securities transferred directly from the original game for PlayStation.

While "Crash Bandicoot" is not faithful to emulate the work of graphic and audio version of the console, controls left something to be desired. It 'clear that the game was never intended to control the touch screen, and try to hold numerous controls on the screen was not fun.

The tablet, such as the S is capable of playing experience, but trying to imitate the experience of multibuttoned joypad feels like a recipe for disaster.

S Tablet remember that Google has not yet received its operating system compressed yet perfect. Small details - like sometimes not be able to choose the right text or presentation scattered navigation features - making it a harrowing experience generally second hand iPad

Sony In an attempt to change or improve the experience, the company has simply made it more complicated. I do not feel that I wanted the team and work with him. I felt like I wanted to avoid.

Sony is a company that is able to do some very nice equipment and beautifully designed, and I will say that he realized that, with shelf S.

But like previous efforts, it seems Sony is fighting on the software side, making the unit more difficult to recommend other pills.

There is no doubt that Sony has the raw materials and hardware know-how to produce a serious contender in tablet mode.

The competitor, however, is not the S. Tablet

Hands-on Sony Tablets: Tablet Is Sonys!

Sony had already announced its Android kind of new tablets and over again, but at the IFA consumer electronics exhibition in Berlin, did the job officially. The 10.1 "model is the Tablet S, and will ship September 16 for $ 499.99 (16GB) and $ 599.99 (32GB). Folding with two 5.5" screens are the P Tablet and will be sold bundled with AT & T wireless service to an unspecified date ("coming soon") and price.

I had some practice time for both tablets Sony, and do not expect to be a great competitor iPad, which leads people to conclude that you can effectively compete with the Apple tablet. (In a phone in the world, the original Verizon Droid time, that although the iPhone rival, the kingdom was short.) But does anyone know the audience, or they are a sort-of tablets can expect Sony to come up with, and I mean as a compliment. (If you had the Sony VAIO branded products are compressed, they would feel at home for the assembly of desktop and notebook computers.)

A fundamental problem in the construction of a tablet, there is a plausible rival IPAD is that it is difficult to construct equipment that is nothing but a piece of seemingly anonymous rectangular glass and plastic. With S, Sony has managed to build something with its own personality and its unusual design has real benefits. The wedge shape feels good in your hand, folded like a tray, and allows the shelf to sit at a table in a gentle angle, which allows comfortable typing. It's not like all the tablets will imitate this model from now, but I think some people will really like it. (Consciously or unconsciously, but also allows Sony to deselect "the tablet is thinner than the iPad?" Race.)

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Sony has changed the honeycomb Android a bit ', but judging from my time with the S, was able to improve the user interface, instead of evil. (Unfortunately, the Android has given a modification.) It added the display, which lets you use the most frequently used programs quickly. E 'included in the feature speeds up Web browsing, which does not seem to help. And 'their bundles unlimited music, videos Unlimited, and readers, not used them, and then we can not condemn them, but nudges closer to D than most of the iPad Android tablets integrated package of hardware, software and services.

(There are several ways to use the iPad or iPhone as a remote printer Peel, but all attachments from one type to another.) It 'a certificate PlayStation, which now does not mean all that much of it is a couple of old PlayStation games, and more to come.

I still think that competitors who use wide screen iPhone, most of them apart from the TouchPad, deceased, are making a mistake. Big is good for movies, of course, but that means that the tablet is abnormally high when held vertically, leaving no aspect ratio works well for books, magazines and other reading materials. However, the S 9.4 "screen is rather the result is a tablet that fits in your hands. And the S felt energetic and responsive when I tried

Bottom line: As long as applications honeycomb of the library is poor, a film that sets itself against the iPad is a longshot. But if I were to buy a bar of Android at this time, the S would be on my list. It 'was a nice set of features and just as important as personality.

Meanwhile, the Tablet P gets an A + for creativity pure. It fits in a pocket, but both screens add up screen space more than anything else that is in paperback, including the note Samsung Galaxy. It has most features of the shelf S, except the infrared port.

And judging from my brief time with him, I think you learn to forget the fact that the square-shaped display is actually two screens with a hinge in the middle. (Sony is also to promote the applications created to treat two monitors as a team, as an e-mail on one screen and one in the Inbox.)

The price that AT & T sells P will have a major influence on how well it does. Ultimately, I suspect that consumers consider less as a folding table and more as an alternative iPod Touch with two screens and built-in wireless broadband, and I bet I'm going to those with a high affinity for gadgets will more attracted by what the teeming masses. It seems to me as a spiritual successor to the old company VAIO C-Series machine, device less-than-a-netbook that has not taken away.

Sony Tablets Fail To Impress On The Price

Sony hopes to dominate consumer electronics with its new pill suffered a new blow Wednesday by analysts and reviewers gadget whose first impression was overwhelmingly bad.

Among their concerns was a high price and features, suggesting that Sony Corp. will remain an also-ran instead of a leader in the tablet. Two versions of most tablet cost Sony $ 499 and $ 599, same price as two low-end Apple iPad.

"Consumers want the pills, but are not willing to pay the same amount would pay for an iPhone for something that is not an iPhone," said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi. "Despite the design of the brand and different, with the price so close to the iPhone will be difficult for Sony."

The Japanese company is already late for his first board game, which hits stores in September, more than a year and a half after Apple Inc. launched the IPAD and nearly a year after Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has launched the GalaxyTab market.

Backed by a disco beat in an event in Berlin to raise awareness of the device from Sony, Howard Stringer, CEO of brushing the concerns of the company waited too long to enter the market in tablet form.

"We want to prove that it is not the fact that the first step that counts, but does it better," said Stringer.

Based on the initial reception, Sony has not in this respect.

The research firm Forrester said post delivered prices from Sony, "to raise a red flag."

Tech reviews credited to Sony to come with a unique design of the S-curve that looks like a tablet folded plate and makes it easier to hold with one hand, but the quality of the material requested.

A review on the Gizmodo blog platform technology called "very plasticky" and said that your screen from scratches more easily than other pills.

Sony has promised in January to become the world's leading manufacturer of tablet No. 2 - behind Apple - in 2012 and Sony executives stuck to this ambitious statement before Wednesday's launch pad.

Sony tries to distinguish it from other characteristics of the tablets Android, like having one of the models as a universal remote control, while the other folds such as the clamshell phone.

An expert, who played in a box, "Sony Tablet S" also questioned that could compete with the competitors that sell high-end compressed at the same price.

By Tim Stevens, editor and technology blog Engadget said that the system of the tablet has been disappointing, and the familiar design and dragged the 2 iPad and Galaxy Tab

"I honestly do not think the tablet itself catapult Sony really in charge of the front Android, which is where it should be if it wants to be No. 2 on the market in tablet," said Stevens.

The new tablets running on Google Inc. Android software, such as GalaxyTab and many other tablets Acer Inc., Asustek Computer Inc. and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.

Sony with a large number of technology companies hoping to win a share of the market, which many have stumbled against Apple.

Hewlett-Packard Co., the decision to abandon its touchpad tablet a week after it came out to show how easy it is to fail. Sales increased only HP reduced the price of $ 99 to $ 399 and $ 499, with the result that the company also announced "final run" and the tables to meet demand.

Once a symbol of Japan's high technology could, Sony is struggling under the weight of its television division of losing money and needs a boost from a successful product.

"Sony really needs to be in the market for the platform and must succeed," said an analyst at Mito Securities electronics Keita Wakabayashi.

Global sales should more than triple this year to 60 million tablets and then increase to 275.3 million units in 2015, according to a report this month by research firm iSuppli IHS.

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Sony has said the film S is unique, like a universal remote computer, which can control the stereo, cable TV boxes and TV.

The mobile device has a screen only 9.4 inches, weighs 1.33 kg and has front and rear cameras.

A 16 GB version of the tablet will cost $ 499 U.S. while the 32 GB version will retail for $ 599. In Europe, S costs € 479. It can be pre-ordered on Wednesday and will be in stores in September.

Sony second pellet, P, comes with 4 GB of memory and looks like a clutch purse. It has two 5.5-inch screens that can be folded and weighs less than a pound.

The tablet also offers 4G phones. In Europe, the P will cost € 599 and will be released in November. Sony said the stores in the U.S. later this year, but gave no date or price.

Sony tablet touch the Library Entertainment, offering services for music and movies, which should give you an edge over competitors, according to Stringer.

"Apple makes the iPad, but it will make a movie?" Stringer added.

Part of Sony fell 1.77 percent in Tokyo trading before the pills were released. U.S. stocks traded closed almost 0.3 percent to $ 21.95 on or after the opening.

Sony Vaio Tablets Officialy Launched

Sony finally unveiled its Vaio tablets IFA 2011 in Berlin today, and we are reporting new details available. We had the details of both tablets in recent weeks, Vaio, but are now official and we should see the Sony booth, during these last days.

There are two systems available:

• Sony Tablet S is the standard tablet daily for lovers of every day with a large 9.4-inch screen and decent hardware Tegra 2

• Sony Tablet P (ex S2 Vaio P is now, laptop) - has two screens, and clam-shell design, so you can use one screen to the keyboard as a mini-laptop, or use the navigation as well as in horizontal, vertical or read books.

Both devices have a couple of strengths, according to Sony officials:

• Hardware and software for optimal design

• Fast and flexible user experience

• Sony Entertainment Network - Easy access to all multimedia content

Cross connection devices - can access and manage the various Sony devices to each other between the (control of the TV, or use the tablet of your living room speakers to play songs compressed or smartphone)

Select the App Market-place - if the application back to a more useful way (whatever that means), so users spend less time looking for applications and actually use them (it would be nice if they differ in their applications for tablets made from all others, is one thing I hate the Android market these days)

All new PlayStation shelves are certified, so they will be able to run many fun games on them. As for e-content to readers, there Reader store with books, magazines and e-published content.