welcome to L techtips today we're going to be unboxing a brand new Sony Tablet
this is a 9.4 in tablet PC it features
Android Honeycomb and it comes in an attractive brown box that we're going to
go ahead and break the seal on because that is what we do on this channel we
unbox things and then we take a first look at them so here is
is my first look oh PlayStation certified
fascinating okay so the Sony Tablet this is the S tablet device Sony got their
little slogan here make believe got a picture of the tablet itself which looks
pretty slick although I would expect that from a Sony product PlayStation certified we already talked about on the
side we see not a whole lot on the other side we see not much here we see some
general specs so 9.4 in tablet 16 gig s
SD it has an SD slot an IR blaster now that's cool uh dual webcams Tegra 2
Bluetooth honeycomb and it is a tablet all right so not a whole lot to say for
itself on the outside of the box Al the IR Blaster is a very cool feature
because what that means is you can use it as a
remote very neat okay quick start guide
getting started here I'm just going to turn this around so everyone can see what we're doing
here um support website okay what's it want you to do in the Box okay well
we'll see what's in the box anyway how to charge the battery okay and then
turning on your device press the power button for three seconds well that is a
quick start guide because that's uh not going to take very long here's the
tablet itself that is a strange shape okay we'll get to that in a minute hold
on guys okay that is another quick start
guide press the button unlock the thing log into Google
okay you'd think they would have just put that on the quick start guide but I
guess not important information
uh FCC regulations and safety and whatnot okay and user license agree
really oh for certain software for your Sony tablet device okay and then limited
warranty statement so how long is our warranty this is
a probably a one-year warranty based on that tablets are generally one-ear
warranty but I'd hate to be wrong although I am wrong sometimes
okay give me a minute here guys go ahead and found it guys it's a
one-year limited warranty and it can be transferred to a subsequent
owner so that's kind of cool so that's kind of like XFX is uh dual dual
lifetime warranty except it's not lifetime it's one year but uh you can
actually sell your tablet give them your receipt and then they will have warranty
coverage from Sony if you decide to upgrade your tablet to something else uh
down the road so that's kind of neat all right we've got a power cord got a power
brick power brick I'm just going to show you guys the old iPhone size comparison
so you can get some idea of how big it is all right so there's that and then
there it is uh next to the iPhone itself
so you can kind of see how big it is not too heavy um I mean there's something to
be said for this longer cord style I
mean the uh Samsung Galaxy as well as the assus Transformer which I had here
just for size comparison both come with little proprietary USB cables that go
into like custom dot connectors and there is something to be said for a
longer cable like this because it means that you can put this next to your
nightstand bring the cable up onto the nightstand and charge it every night uh
conveniently rather than relying on it to
uh rather than relying on a USB extension cable to get the cord to be
long enough so here is the tablet itself and
the very first thing I noticed about it was this look at that it is not it it it
is on a slant so I guess the way Sony
intends for you to use it is sort of
mostly one way although it's not uncomfortable to hold in portrait
orientation either so first thing we're going to do is uh let's find the power
button and hold it for probably 3 seconds based on the quick start guides
indication okay there it is it's turning on right now what else do we have for
buttons here we've got a volume up volume down look at that a hardware
reset switch that is worth its weight in
gold because things happen from time to time and I'm not saying anything
particularly about Sony's tablets but
once in a while I have had Android tablets lock up and fortunately on the
one that locked up on me a couple times I was uh able to remove the battery in
order to hard reset it but if if I had
one that didn't have a hard reset switch and I couldn't remove the battery I
don't know what I would have done I would have had to wait for the battery to die in standby mode in order to turn
the tablet back on so that that would have been bad uh this
is looks like a speaker Grill of some sort okay so let's uh turn around this
way so here we find kind of a rounded textured you can see there's little uh
rubber no I think they're plastic little plastic bumps on it so that gives it a
very nice feel actually and you would be very unlikely to drop this tablet while
holding on to that part of it here we've got a headphone jack which is recessed
back here so you're not going to have any undue strain on your on your chord
we've also got an SD card slot as well as I don't
know what is that is that some kind of USB connector looks like a one two it's
five pin USB I think but guys correct me if I'm wrong on this one tell me what
that is if you know better than I do uh there's another speaker and uh okay give
me a sec guys oh no one more thing here is our power connector so here's where
this goes let's see is this magnetic or what
how's this work no goes
on looks like uh H oh it's
keyed so it goes in yeah I think it's
this way and I dropped it there we go so it
goes in like that so you can select your language to begin I'm going to select
English United States because English Canada usually isn't an option I can set
up Wi-Fi later okay pretty responsive so
far actually uh set up accounts later
let's see if we can just get to the home screen really quick here yeah there we
go okay so gliding around this is pretty much what I would expect from a Tegra 2
tablet in terms of responsiveness um they're all pretty much the same uh we
can connect to the internet here Wi-Fi
actually no this one's feeling pretty pretty darn responsive right about now
so turn on the
Wi-Fi add a Wi-Fi network oh no apparently that's the way to do it
manually okay give me a second here guys I'll be back so this is cool there are
actually some features here that I was not aware of that make this very unique
and very different from other Android tablets which let's face it are fairly
similar beyond the form factor or maybe the keyboard that they use the desktop
wallpaper they come pre-loaded with what ports they have these are all the
differentiating factors well Sony has found a way to take that standard
Android Honeycomb software and turn turn it into something very very unique so uh
we've got here let's have a look at the apps that they have pre-loaded here
Video Unlimited reader select app social feed remote control and video player so
this ties into a few things that we found on the Sony website which uh hold
on Game Loft oh they don't have the okay
well here let's go on to the Sony website and have a look at what they
have to say for themselves here so it's for PlayStation games it's e-reader for
ebooks okay music new movies through the Sony Entertainment Network it does work
as a universal remote which is very cool that is a feature that this particular
tablet has over the other tablets that I
am aware of especially if it works well
and you can share View and transfer personal videos and photos music to your
DLNA compatible PC TV or speakers which is also really neat because a tablet
especially when it's only got like 16 gigs of storage on it is only as useful
as the amount of data that you can use on it at any given time so speaking of
which unlimited entertainment gives you access to Sony Music as well as videos
very very cool Swift and smooth experience like I said we've come to
expect that from Tegra 2 and it is PlayStation certified so yeah you can
actually play Playstation games on this tablet using the onscreen controller and
then the obviously the screen ergonomic design to fit your hand so what they're
saying about this particular design is that it's supposed to feel kind of like
uh like a rolled up magazine like a when you peeled the cover over or or an open
book and it is comfortable you know what it is comfortable I'd say it's not quite
natural to me yet given that I've had it in my hands for like a couple minutes
but uh it's definitely something that I could get used to compared to the
symmetrical tablets that I am accustomed to at this time so other than that I
don't see too much more here uh nothing
about the panel technology that it's using although I can check here to see
what they have to say about that no they just say resolution screen size although they do say that the screen is using
true black technology whatever that means uh I don't know what kind of panel
it is but it looks pretty good I can't quite evaluate the brightness yet let me
just crank the brightness up and see what I think of it after that
so yeah looks quite vibrant uh the blacks are very very deep but I haven't
really seen the whites yet okay throw your content universal
remote control customized with Android market and I think that's pretty much it
I think the coolest thing about it by long shot is definitely the ability to
play uh PS1 games on the go on your
tablet which turns it into a very awesome gaming platform because you have
not only all the Android games but also PlayStation games as well as a great
little media tablet so that's uh that's
starting to look pretty neat to me actually so thank you for checking out
this unboxing of the Sony S tablet and
don't or Tablet S rather sorry and don't forget to subscribe to L techtips for
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okay so it actually comes pre-loaded with Crash Bandicoot which I have never
played but I'm trying to figure out right
now how to uh how to
start so we can see what the gaming experience is
like pretty neat though pretty
neat okay I paused it here we go so I
can run and jump okay so this behaves
like it kind of like an analog stick where it's not uh just straight and I
fell down a hole okay so I start over
cool I jump over the crab oh oh I think I jumped on the
crab yeah forgive me for not being very good at this guys sorry it's like the
first level I already died once whoa oh okay hold on oh I jumped on the
crab can I double jump no apparently not
okay so there you go guys that's the uh Playstation 1 gaming experience
that we can expect to have on the Sony Tablet very cool