After several generations of development, Sony's Z series products have become the benchmark of excellent design and flagship performance, and its Compact products have been widely praised by the market. Today, Sony has brought the concept of Compact into its own tablet computers: Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact。
Apple's iPad Mini 3 is really lack of sincerity this time, and people will inevitably turn their eyes to other tablets when disappointed with the iPad Mini 3, such as HTC's Nexus 9 and Sony's Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact.
The Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact has a thinner body than the iPhone 6, and its overall weight is only 270g. It's against heaven for a tablet computer to be so light. You should know that the weight of giant screen phones such as OPPO N1 and Lumia 1520 has exceeded the 200g mark.
Main characteristics:
Support 3G/LTE (Cat. 3) network;
8 inch 1920 × 1200 IPS screen, 283ppi, scratch resistant screen;
Android 4.4.4；
Quad core Qualcomm MSM8974AC processor, 3GB RAM;
IP68 waterproof and dustproof;
8 megapixel rear camera and 2.2 megapixel front camera support 1080p video recording;
16/32GB memory, supporting SD card expansion;
Front dual speakers;
4500 mAh battery;
It supports Remote Play and can be used as the screen of PS4.
appearance:
The biggest change in the appearance of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact compared with the Z series mobile phone is that it uses the frosted back instead of the glass commonly used in the Z series flagship mobile phone, which makes Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact has excellent back touch and certain anti fingerprint and scratch resistance.
The plastic back does not look as cool as the aluminum body of the iPad, but the plastic back is very important for the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact to be so light. The ultra lightweight body has also greatly improved the grip feeling. In addition, the matte back with excellent hand feel will not be tired even if it is held for a long time.
The thickness of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is also amazing. The 6.4 mm body seems to be close to the back, but you don't have to worry about the strength of the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact body. Thanks to the aluminum frame, the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact should not bend like a Plus without knowing it.
Special materials are used at the corners of the fuselage to absorb the impact force when falling.
The body width of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is 123.6mm, and it is OK to hold it with one hand, but the friction force of the aluminum alloy frame is not large enough. The design of widening the upper and lower frames allows the hand not to touch the screen or block the speaker when holding it horizontally.
The front two speakers are beside the body, and Sony has also added 3D surround sound and xLoud technology.
On Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact, Sony finally put the buttons and interfaces in their correct positions. The tablet should lie horizontally when connecting to the base, so Sony placed the magnetic charging port, the MicroSD card slot and the nanoSIM card slot on the left side of the body, which is protected by a waterproof cover.
The rest of the interfaces and buttons are placed in line on the right side of the fuselage, which means that other interfaces of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact can be used normally when charging the connected base.
The 8 million pixel lens on the back has no fill light, and the NFC antenna is at the NFC mark below.
Screen:
The screen of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is a 1920 × 1200 LCD screen, and it is blessed with the Teli Charm color technology.
The color performance of the screen is really impressive. Even the default built-in dynamic wallpaper is constantly changing the hue to display the colorful color of the screen. In addition, the system also provides a white balance option, allowing users to adjust the color of the screen, but it would be better if a saturation adjustment could be added.
The screen brightness of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is higher than that of current tablet computers. The brightness of 631 nites and the contrast of 1416:1 are excellent.
However, in the sunlight, the reflection of the front glass panel is slightly more, which affects the visibility in the sunlight.
This screen also has an intelligent screen lighting function. When the user looks at the screen, the screen will not go out even if he does not touch it.
The performance of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact 284ppi has no advantage over the 324ppi of iPad Mini 2 and 359ppi of Galaxy Tab S 8.4. However, the ppi of 283 is enough. In some cases, the jagged edges of graphics can still be seen.
Battery life:
The built-in battery capacity of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is 4500 mAh, which is good for such a thin tablet, but the battery capacity of the 6.6 mm thick Galaxy Tab S 8.4 is 4900 mAh.
Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact's web browsing time is particularly excellent, and about 13.5 hours of video playback time is slightly different from Sony's claimed 15 hours. However, Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact will automatically launch a video player when the battery power drops to 10%.
System:
Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact runs the Android 4.4.4 system customized by Sony, which should be upgraded to 5.0 in the near future. Sony's system style is roughly similar to the original 4.4.4, but for many customized applications, the more distinctive one is small applications.
Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact has 8 built-in small applications, and more small applications can also be downloaded from Google Play.
Sony's What's New has also appeared on Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact. This application has a beautiful UI, which can recommend users with the latest applications and multimedia content, and the content source is not only limited to Google Play, but also Sony's own PlayStation Store.
Performance:
The processor of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is Qualcomm MSM8974AC, which is matched with 3GB RAM, making Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact a member of the first performance echelon on the market. In the same screen size level, there are Galaxy Tab S 8.4 using Exynos 5420 and Xiaomi tablet using Tegra K1.
In terms of performance, the performance of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is still very good. In addition to the slow performance of web browsing, the daily use and game performance are reassuring.
Music playback:
Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact has a famous Walkman music player built in, which supports mainstream audio formats as well as FLAC and ALAC lossless formats.
When playing music, clicking the album cover image will bring up an "infinite button". After pressing this button, Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact will automatically search YouTube for MV, or Wikipedia for artist information, or Google for the corresponding lyrics, which can also be shared on personal Facebook.
The Gracenote function enables Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact to search song information by itself, and users can also edit it manually. The Track ID function can identify music being played outside.
Click the setting menu to find that Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact has specially tuned many Sony earphones, and after inserting Sony's NC31E/EM, Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact can also achieve noise reduction, but this earphone is not included with Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact.
In addition, the mellow sound+, dynamic equalizer, DSEE and surround sound settings commonly used on Sony mobile phones appear in Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact. For dual front speakers, Sony has Clear Phase to improve the sound quality, xLOUD to increase the volume, and high-resolution audio can also be output to the external DAC through the USB interface.
The sound quality of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is good. Although there will be some channel crosstalk after the earphone is inserted, it means that Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is certainly not the best tablet with the best sound quality, but the effect of listening to music is good.
photograph:
The 8 megapixel camera of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact can output up to 8 megapixel photos in manual mode, while the maximum resolution is 6 megapixel in advanced automatic mode.
The camera interface of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is basically the same as that of Sony phones, but Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact does not have a shutter button.
Like Sony's mobile phones, Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact also supports a variety of photo taking functions.
The "show your face" function of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact can simultaneously turn on the front and rear cameras for taking photos, and the front camera will automatically track your face. After taking photos, you can also directly share to Facebook and YouTube.
The multi camera mode allows Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact to connect Sony digital cameras or mobile phones that support WI-FI and NFC, and combine the pictures taken by each camera lens into one picture, which can be taken by up to four devices at the same time.
The manual mode of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact has a general effect of taking samples. The picture has obvious overexposure, noise control is not good, and the detail performance is not as good as the parameter of 8 million pixels, but the color restoration is very good.
In the advanced automatic mode, the imaging is not very different from the 8 megapixel mode except that the proportion is trimmed to 16:9. For a tablet computer, this kind of photography effect is barely qualified, but compared with other 8 megapixel mobile phones, this effect is not very good.
The HDR proof of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is also average. It brightens too much in the dark, and the HDR effect is not stable enough. The imaging drop is large as the scene changes. (The above three pictures are advanced automatic, HDR off, HDR on)
Sony has always supported panoramic shooting, but to be honest, Sony's panoramic shooting function is one of the worst on the market. It is very picky about the moving speed. After the user manually stops shooting, the remaining images will be automatically filled with gray. The resolution of 5 million pixels is also very low. The painting surface is unnatural, and the photographed objects also have some distortion.
Summary:
The boundary between mobile phones and tablets is blurring. The screen size of popular large screen mobile phones in the market has reached more than 5.5 inches, and 7-8 inch tablets are also better sold than 10 inch tablets. However, the lack of sincerity of the iPad Mini 3 is really hard to say.
Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact really deserves its name. Its ultra light and ultra-thin body is truly amazing. The 8-inch display screen is full of rich colors, and the dual speaker sound quality is excellent. Moreover, Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact has Sony's Walkman technology.
The camera of Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is disappointing. It does a good job in terms of functionality and video recording effect, but the ability to shoot still photos is not enough.
Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact has good performance, so you don't need to worry about it. The PS4 Remote Play function also enables Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact to attract many PS4 users.
Excellent workmanship, ultra light and ultra-thin;
Unique waterproof and dustproof;
The screen color is amazing, but the resolution and visual angle are average;
Battery endurance;
Stereo speakers are not as loud as expected;
The slightly customized Android system runs smoothly, and the built-in APP functions are powerful and practical;
The photo quality is disappointing, and the video recording effect is good.
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