Sony Xperia Z3 Compact Tablet – Tablet test

Sony Tablet third incarnation – this time smaller in dimensions – it turned out great in practice. Is Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact entirely meet the expectations?

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Abbreviation, or wideorecenzja Sony Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact

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Construction / quality

Again, thin profile and great performance

The first entry into the market of smaller tablets, Sony could be considered classified.Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact barely measures 6.4 millimeters in thickness, exactly the same as the Xperia Tablet Z2 – and the size of the former are modest (213 x 124 mm). Weight, inevitably, it is lower – is 270 grams. However, Sony has managed to create one of the most beautiful and best-made products in this category. Drawing on the experience of previous generations, similar components in a closed cabinet noticeably smaller, such that each user from the Japanese recognize immediately. Of course, this did not prevent the company to secure the equipment against water and dust, ensuring compliance with IP68. Moreover, there appear the front speakers that reproduce in our tests with the maximum output sound at 78 decibels. On the front panel we see the manufacturer's logo, the front camera with a resolution of 2.2 MP, ambient light sensor, and distinctive, wide frame. I never they do not interfere, but I understand why some might on this design element to complain. As usual, it remains a matter of taste, but undoubtedly applies practical – holding the tablet in a horizontal position do not have to worry about accidentally touching any part of the display. I also had no problems with the maintenance of the tablet with one hand in the classic vertical position. [Nggallery id = 882 template = techmaniak] The left side of the tablet has put in a nest dock and two slots (on the microSD card and nanosim) hidden behind solid cover. From the bottom of smiling at us another cover, this time to protect the nest microUSB 2.0, enabling data transfer and battery charging device. At the top, however, located the microphone and headphone jack, while on the right side we find the lock button on / off button and a dual-function multimedia. Around the entire device was introduced metal frame already known Xperia Z3 notches on the corners; their role is to better absorb the shocks associated with falls. We have been back panel – finished with a pleasant, opaque material, enclosing NFC module and giving access to the main, 8.1-megapixel camera. The latter is based on a matrix Exmor RS, providing sufficient photographs (for Tablet) quality, with support features such as geo tagging, face detection, HDR and panorama option. We can also, with both cameras to record video in Full HD (1920 x 1080p, 30 frames / sec.). The tablet is sold in two colors – white and black. Personally, I do not have the first quibbling; is aesthetic, no problems with the housing remaining fingerprints, it is difficult to stick to the same quality. You can see that Sony once again knows what he's doing.

Screen

More than sufficient detail

Despite the presence in the tablet market (and even mobile!) With a higher resolution than traditional Full HD, still no way to blame for the screen density and detail present in theXperia Tablet Z3 Compact. At 1920 pixels horizontally and 1,200 pixels vertically (WUXGA), on an 8-inch diagonal receive 283 PPI. Single points of distinction becomes so impossible.

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Display can not equipped with IPS matrix, but the viewing angles are standing at the right level. To some extent, but the contrast is changing – but this is not a reason to hang dogs on Z3 Compact Tablet. Personally, I have no major comments on the dedication of individual colors or default screen calibration – and even if someone "Defaults" settings do not like, you can easily modify the white balance and color saturation via the corresponding tabs in the settings.

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maximum brightness was increased to 662 cd / m2, which is great news. I had no problems with the display readability even in direct sunlight; it finally luminance of tens of percent higher than in the Xperia Tablet Z2. On the other hand, the device could use a polarizing layer better – because now, or do not have any, or one that is completely ineffective. The use of such a solution would reduce the maximum setting intensely lighted environment, and this would have a direct impact on a longer working time away from an outlet. Importantly, Sony did not spoil the minimum brightness – it still remains in the vicinity of 15 cd / m2, ensuring proper comfort while leafing through the e-book in a dark room. The advantage is also low non-uniformity of illumination, amounting to barely 7.6 percent. The device supports 10 pressure points. In the tactile feedback and the speed does not have any problems.

Equipment

Rambo returns

Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact is another Sony equipment that was armed to the teeth. Let's start with Wi-Fi, which supports 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac in two bands (2.4 and 5 GHz), the Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA and hotspot function. The card shall support a great extent both in laboratory tests and in actual use; I experienced a sudden disconnection or unwarranted interference call. [Test slug = "wifi-Tablet" axis = "negative" product_id = "20120"] tested by us is also equipped with a copy of the LTE modem (Cat4, 150/50 Mbit / s), which makes use of wireless Internet and perform traditional voice calls . Just remember that the Xperia initiates a system reboot whenever you insert or eject the card.

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The next thing on which is worth a tilt Z3 Compact Tablet is working great GPS. Location before you get the full commissioning test application – and this happens only in the best, most sensitive individuals. The indication accuracy is supported by A-GPG and GLONASS. You'll find here are Bluetooth version 4.0 LE with ANT +, which allows us not only to evaporate tablet with simple devices, but also with multiple sport accessories requiring the latter.

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It is worth mentioning at this point socket microUSB 2.0, which also offers support for MHL 3. This means that we get the opportunity to streamowania video at resolutions up to 2160p at 30 fps. / S and 7.1 channel audio. USB OTG same tablet is selective – we read the contents of flash drives, external drives with its own power supply, run the mouse or keyboard, USB distributors. It is worth while to note that the media must be formatted in FAT32. NTFS partitions are not supported.

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For NFC, which I mentioned when describing the case, you can have one caveat – as in other Sony products, here the operation of the module is limited in one respect. Z3 Compact Xperia Tablet will not work with any proximity tags; will need to purchase a dedicated Smart tags from Sony. More expensive, of course. The manufacturer took care of 16 gigabytes of on-board memory. We can be extended by adding a memory card with a capacity of up to 128GB, and the transfer of data to an external application will be impossible; will be stored on the microSD therefore mainly multimedia.

Battery

Small tablet – great results

With a thickness of 6.4 millimeters, and a small area can be expected that the Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact will ensure long working time record away from the socket. Nothing could be further from the truth, because, as it turns out, the Japanese once again surprise. Cell with a relatively small capacity (4500 mAh) provides runtimes little shorter than the 6000 mAh in Xperia Tablet Z2. This, in turn, owe probably the presence of more energy-efficient Snapdragon 801 and subsequent software optimizations, which Sony makes up from generation to generation.

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A fully charged tablet is sufficient for approx. 12 hours watching movies, over 9 hours of surfing via Wi-Fi or five hours of continuous talk on Skype. All measurements we conducted with the screen brightness reduced to 120 cd / m2. [Test slug = "battery" virtual = "video-wifi-off, internet-wifi, internet-3g-wifi communicator, charging-ac" product_id = "20120"] energy supplementation using the included charger takes a little more than 4 hours.

Performance / functionality

Snapdragon 801 and 3 GB of RAM

Z3 Compact Xperia Tablet runs on Snapdragon chipset 801 (MSM8974AB), equipped with a 4-core processor clocked at 400 Krait 2.5 GHz and Adreno 330 graphics performance (4 cores, 578 MHz). Active support 3 gigabytes of RAM, ensuring smooth operation in virtually any environment. Similarly, as in the case of other equipment using the latest Qualcomm, there is no any problems with downtime, delays or insufficient details in each game. On the highest setting works both Asphalt 8, Real Racing 3 andModern Combat 5 , offering the user the best possible experience.

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Just look at the benchmarks, moreover, to know that the equipment comes from the top shelf. More than 42 thousand. AnTuTu points, less than 21 thousand. in Quadrancie or 4175 points in the test Fill Rate GFXBench suggest that any game released in the near future there will be a challenge for the tablet. The layout is also not on parade – we saw more than a million points in the Anomaly 2, almost 28 fps. / S test T-Rex 3.0 and less than 12 fps. / S in Manhattan 3.0. 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited close with a score of 18 thousand. points. Z3 Compact Tablet can also boast extensive multimedia support, not only coping with DTS codecs. 4K resolution for this hardware is something completely natural – even despite the absence of a display. [Wptab style = "4" title = "Browser and System"] 1. Tests Tests browsers tablet performance for browsing the web. [Test slug = "peacekeeper" virtual = "peacekeeper-chrome" product_id = "20120"] [test slug = "SunSpider" virtual = "SunSpider-chrome" product_id = "20120"] [test slug = "kraken" virtual = " kraken-chrome "product_id =" 20120 "] 2. Synthetic tests Tests of the systemoverall performance of the tablet. [Test slug = "quadrant" product_id = "20120"] [test slug = "android-antutu" product_id = "20120"] [test slug = "gfxbench-fill" product_id = "20120"] [/ wptab] [wptab styles = "4" title = "Image and video"] 3. Synthetic tests of the system (graphics) Tests performance tablet with an emphasis on 3D graphics. [Test slug = "gfxbench-fps" virtual = "t-rex-3-offscreen, t-rex-3-onscreen, offscreen-manhattan, manhattan-onscreen" product_id = "20120"] [test slug = "3dmark" virtual="3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-total,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-graphics,3dmark-ice-storm-unlimited-physics" product_id = "20120"] 4. Test media playback playback of the popular multimedia formats in the application MX Player (latest package of codecs). – Mkv, 480p, xvid, 1mbps, he aac, subtitles; – Mkv, 720p, h264, 600kbps, aac / mp3 audio dual; – MP4, 720p, h264, 3Mbps, aac; – Mkv, 720p, h264, 3Mbps, vorbis, subtitles; – MP4, 720p, h264, 6Mbps, ac3; – MKV, 1080p h264, 10Mbps, dts (no support for DTS); – MKV, 1080p h264, 40Mbps; – Mp4, 4K (3840×2160), h264, 34mbps; – Mp4, 4K (4096×1716), h264, aac, 35Mbps. [/ Wptab] [wptab_end]

The tablet is running Android version 4.4.4 with the latest version of Sony overlay. This, however, is not different than previous generations – just corrected a few details, but the general layout and utility remained very close. The upside is that the system continues to run smoothly, regardless of the number of animation on the screen.

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specified in the interface with colorful icons and widgets separate media player and a camera (I think they just completely unnecessary for). Of course, we also have the possibility to assign Z3 Compact Tablet further additives – discretion and desire. Like the previous generation tablets, here was a place for KitKat made with transparent beams at the top and bottom or flat styling in the system settings.

Color themes

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Sony tried, in addition, adding some predefined themes that can change the "pinch" the screen. This is why the menu (which also get the longer holding your finger on the screen), choose the widget, shortcut to an application, wallpaper and just one of several topics. The cool thing is the animated themes, changing with the current time.

Develop your tablet

A clever solution is the Smart Connect, which allows programming the behavior of the device. Just, for example, hook the tablet at night to a charger, that all sounds are muted (except alarm clock). Moreover, we have the "Music in the house," which will – after putting the headphones into the slot – to launch a specific application and automatically play songs.

Is a radio!

It is worth mentioning that in the Z3 Xperia Tablet will find a fully-fledged Compact FM radio which to operate – traditionally – will need a headset as an antenna duplicate.

Multitasking could be better

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Sony, unfortunately, does not draw inspiration from Samsung, LG and Lenovo. The company gives us to use a set of several small programs working on your home screen "above" the currently displayed content. This seems convenient that allows, for example. On wynotowanie given piece of text from a web page or calculation uncomplicated data using a calculator. But we will not be able to benefit from a comfortable, separated by a screen that is available among others in the three above-mentioned products manufacturers.

Summary / assessment / review

Brilliant toddler

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If the new Fiat 500 has a powerful engine, major finish, wide tires, a large luggage compartment and three thousand electronic systems, you would compare it to the Xperia Tablet Z3 Compact. It is well optimized equipment, nice, waterproof, hellishly fast and reasonably priced; Sony once again shows that he takes to heart the majority of the comments users, trying to deliver to market the product in line with the expectations of the public. In short – we made it. Again. [Temperatura2 product_id = "20120"] [inne_propozycje product_id = "20120"]

Your Questions

casper: Please direct comparison Z3 Xperia Tablet S Compact and Samsung Tab 8.4.The build quality, battery life, equipment and performance are on the side of Sony – get here more suited to tablet premium shelf, faster and better optimized from the program. Samsung, however, can boast a better and more detailed screen, more functionality program, as well as a lower price. If I would personally choose between these two positions, I would have a dilemma – but I think I'd go in the direction of Sony, at least until the Koreans did not improve the software. Cracken: What kind of battery life times?Some of the best that we saw in the tablets of the class (i.e.. the following 9-inch diagonal). If you care about the long life away from an outlet, in this moment better, you will not find a compact equipment. Casper: Is it possible to store applications on the memory card? Unfortunately not. Sony still does not provide such an option. Bezimienny2007:most interests me how does the screen compared to the Z2 Tablet and duration of action, and that plays movies 4k without problems. The screen is brighter than in Z2, but – as in my eye – it lacks a bit of contrast deviation. However, it's hard to complain about this display during everyday use. The duration of action at a distance from the wall is great, especially for this class of tablets. 4K movies are played smoothly; tested on the two clips.uks: Is the tablet, you can call and send SMS? Absolutely, if you have a version of the modem.