WEBVTT 00:00:07.799 --> 00:00:14.719 welcome to L techtips today we're going to be unboxing a brand new Sony Tablet 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:17.359 this is a 9.4 in tablet PC it features 00:00:14.719 --> 00:00:22.279 Android Honeycomb and it comes in an attractive brown box that we're going to 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:27.760 go ahead and break the seal on because that is what we do on this channel we 00:00:25.240 --> 00:00:33.079 unbox things and then we take a first look at them so here is 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:37.760 is my first look oh PlayStation certified 00:00:35.559 --> 00:00:44.719 fascinating okay so the Sony Tablet this is the S tablet device Sony got their 00:00:41.800 --> 00:00:47.640 little slogan here make believe got a picture of the tablet itself which looks 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:53.399 pretty slick although I would expect that from a Sony product PlayStation certified we already talked about on the 00:00:51.440 --> 00:01:00.039 side we see not a whole lot on the other side we see not much here we see some 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:02.879 general specs so 9.4 in tablet 16 gig s 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:07.600 SD it has an SD slot an IR blaster now that's cool uh dual webcams Tegra 2 00:01:05.479 --> 00:01:11.840 Bluetooth honeycomb and it is a tablet all right so not a whole lot to say for 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:16.119 itself on the outside of the box Al the IR Blaster is a very cool feature 00:01:14.360 --> 00:01:21.840 because what that means is you can use it as a 00:01:18.320 --> 00:01:23.200 remote very neat okay quick start guide 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:28.920 getting started here I'm just going to turn this around so everyone can see what we're doing 00:01:25.960 --> 00:01:33.240 here um support website okay what's it want you to do in the Box okay well 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:36.920 we'll see what's in the box anyway how to charge the battery okay and then 00:01:35.399 --> 00:01:41.280 turning on your device press the power button for three seconds well that is a 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:45.439 quick start guide because that's uh not going to take very long here's the 00:01:42.960 --> 00:01:49.640 tablet itself that is a strange shape okay we'll get to that in a minute hold 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.920 on guys okay that is another quick start 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:55.439 guide press the button unlock the thing log into Google 00:01:53.680 --> 00:02:01.840 okay you'd think they would have just put that on the quick start guide but I 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:04.159 guess not important information 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:09.000 uh FCC regulations and safety and whatnot okay and user license agree 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:13.440 really oh for certain software for your Sony tablet device okay and then limited 00:02:11.959 --> 00:02:16.519 warranty statement so how long is our warranty this is 00:02:17.239 --> 00:02:24.800 a probably a one-year warranty based on that tablets are generally one-ear 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:30.120 warranty but I'd hate to be wrong although I am wrong sometimes 00:02:30.440 --> 00:02:38.360 okay give me a minute here guys go ahead and found it guys it's a 00:02:35.720 --> 00:02:43.319 one-year limited warranty and it can be transferred to a subsequent 00:02:41.720 --> 00:02:47.120 owner so that's kind of cool so that's kind of like XFX is uh dual dual 00:02:45.720 --> 00:02:52.360 lifetime warranty except it's not lifetime it's one year but uh you can 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:56.319 actually sell your tablet give them your receipt and then they will have warranty 00:02:54.200 --> 00:02:59.879 coverage from Sony if you decide to upgrade your tablet to something else uh 00:02:58.040 --> 00:03:03.480 down the road so that's kind of neat all right we've got a power cord got a power 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:07.519 brick power brick I'm just going to show you guys the old iPhone size comparison 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:13.400 so you can get some idea of how big it is all right so there's that and then 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:14.920 there it is uh next to the iPhone itself 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:21.680 so you can kind of see how big it is not too heavy um I mean there's something to 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:24.080 be said for this longer cord style I 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:28.840 mean the uh Samsung Galaxy as well as the assus Transformer which I had here 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:33.840 just for size comparison both come with little proprietary USB cables that go 00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:36.760 into like custom dot connectors and there is something to be said for a 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:40.319 longer cable like this because it means that you can put this next to your 00:03:38.239 --> 00:03:45.159 nightstand bring the cable up onto the nightstand and charge it every night uh 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:48.560 conveniently rather than relying on it to 00:03:46.239 --> 00:03:52.120 uh rather than relying on a USB extension cable to get the cord to be 00:03:51.040 --> 00:03:57.560 long enough so here is the tablet itself and 00:03:55.360 --> 00:04:04.519 the very first thing I noticed about it was this look at that it is not it it it 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:07.519 is on a slant so I guess the way Sony 00:04:04.519 --> 00:04:09.519 intends for you to use it is sort of 00:04:07.519 --> 00:04:13.799 mostly one way although it's not uncomfortable to hold in portrait 00:04:11.640 --> 00:04:17.919 orientation either so first thing we're going to do is uh let's find the power 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:22.280 button and hold it for probably 3 seconds based on the quick start guides 00:04:20.280 --> 00:04:26.280 indication okay there it is it's turning on right now what else do we have for 00:04:23.960 --> 00:04:31.520 buttons here we've got a volume up volume down look at that a hardware 00:04:28.479 --> 00:04:33.919 reset switch that is worth its weight in 00:04:31.520 --> 00:04:38.639 gold because things happen from time to time and I'm not saying anything 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:40.479 particularly about Sony's tablets but 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:44.759 once in a while I have had Android tablets lock up and fortunately on the 00:04:42.840 --> 00:04:50.560 one that locked up on me a couple times I was uh able to remove the battery in 00:04:47.479 --> 00:04:52.320 order to hard reset it but if if I had 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:55.199 one that didn't have a hard reset switch and I couldn't remove the battery I 00:04:53.720 --> 00:05:01.240 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 00:04:59.919 --> 00:05:06.600 the tablet back on so that that would have been bad uh this 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:11.440 is looks like a speaker Grill of some sort okay so let's uh turn around this 00:05:09.080 --> 00:05:15.840 way so here we find kind of a rounded textured you can see there's little uh 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:19.680 rubber no I think they're plastic little plastic bumps on it so that gives it a 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:24.639 very nice feel actually and you would be very unlikely to drop this tablet while 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:28.000 holding on to that part of it here we've got a headphone jack which is recessed 00:05:26.840 --> 00:05:32.440 back here so you're not going to have any undue strain on your on your chord 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:37.919 we've also got an SD card slot as well as I don't 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:43.960 know what is that is that some kind of USB connector looks like a one two it's 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:47.680 five pin USB I think but guys correct me if I'm wrong on this one tell me what 00:05:45.400 --> 00:05:52.840 that is if you know better than I do uh there's another speaker and uh okay give 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:56.720 me a sec guys oh no one more thing here is our power connector so here's where 00:05:55.039 --> 00:06:03.240 this goes let's see is this magnetic or what 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:07.400 how's this work no goes 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:10.800 on looks like uh H oh it's 00:06:07.400 --> 00:06:12.800 keyed so it goes in yeah I think it's 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:17.720 this way and I dropped it there we go so it 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:21.199 goes in like that so you can select your language to begin I'm going to select 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:26.599 English United States because English Canada usually isn't an option I can set 00:06:23.440 --> 00:06:30.120 up Wi-Fi later okay pretty responsive so 00:06:26.599 --> 00:06:31.960 far actually uh set up accounts later 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:37.319 let's see if we can just get to the home screen really quick here yeah there we 00:06:34.919 --> 00:06:41.680 go okay so gliding around this is pretty much what I would expect from a Tegra 2 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:48.520 tablet in terms of responsiveness um they're all pretty much the same uh we 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:50.520 can connect to the internet here Wi-Fi 00:06:48.520 --> 00:06:55.800 actually no this one's feeling pretty pretty darn responsive right about now 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.800 so turn on the 00:06:56.759 --> 00:07:02.479 Wi-Fi add a Wi-Fi network oh no apparently that's the way to do it 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:06.400 manually okay give me a second here guys I'll be back so this is cool there are 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:11.680 actually some features here that I was not aware of that make this very unique 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:17.280 and very different from other Android tablets which let's face it are fairly 00:07:14.520 --> 00:07:20.919 similar beyond the form factor or maybe the keyboard that they use the desktop 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:24.879 wallpaper they come pre-loaded with what ports they have these are all the 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:29.680 differentiating factors well Sony has found a way to take that standard 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:34.800 Android Honeycomb software and turn turn it into something very very unique so uh 00:07:32.960 --> 00:07:38.960 we've got here let's have a look at the apps that they have pre-loaded here 00:07:36.280 --> 00:07:43.360 Video Unlimited reader select app social feed remote control and video player so 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:50.360 this ties into a few things that we found on the Sony website which uh hold 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:51.800 on Game Loft oh they don't have the okay 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:55.240 well here let's go on to the Sony website and have a look at what they 00:07:53.720 --> 00:08:00.240 have to say for themselves here so it's for PlayStation games it's e-reader for 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:05.479 ebooks okay music new movies through the Sony Entertainment Network it does work 00:08:02.840 --> 00:08:10.240 as a universal remote which is very cool that is a feature that this particular 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:13.240 tablet has over the other tablets that I 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:14.720 am aware of especially if it works well 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:19.000 and you can share View and transfer personal videos and photos music to your 00:08:16.280 --> 00:08:23.560 DLNA compatible PC TV or speakers which is also really neat because a tablet 00:08:21.840 --> 00:08:28.599 especially when it's only got like 16 gigs of storage on it is only as useful 00:08:26.039 --> 00:08:32.599 as the amount of data that you can use on it at any given time so speaking of 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:37.479 which unlimited entertainment gives you access to Sony Music as well as videos 00:08:35.599 --> 00:08:41.039 very very cool Swift and smooth experience like I said we've come to 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:45.560 expect that from Tegra 2 and it is PlayStation certified so yeah you can 00:08:42.800 --> 00:08:51.440 actually play Playstation games on this tablet using the onscreen controller and 00:08:48.680 --> 00:08:55.320 then the obviously the screen ergonomic design to fit your hand so what they're 00:08:52.839 --> 00:08:59.200 saying about this particular design is that it's supposed to feel kind of like 00:08:57.040 --> 00:09:03.519 uh like a rolled up magazine like a when you peeled the cover over or or an open 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:08.200 book and it is comfortable you know what it is comfortable I'd say it's not quite 00:09:05.959 --> 00:09:12.480 natural to me yet given that I've had it in my hands for like a couple minutes 00:09:10.640 --> 00:09:16.760 but uh it's definitely something that I could get used to compared to the 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:22.279 symmetrical tablets that I am accustomed to at this time so other than that I 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:24.600 don't see too much more here uh nothing 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:28.440 about the panel technology that it's using although I can check here to see 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:33.240 what they have to say about that no they just say resolution screen size although they do say that the screen is using 00:09:31.640 --> 00:09:38.279 true black technology whatever that means uh I don't know what kind of panel 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:41.519 it is but it looks pretty good I can't quite evaluate the brightness yet let me 00:09:40.040 --> 00:09:47.880 just crank the brightness up and see what I think of it after that 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:51.880 so yeah looks quite vibrant uh the blacks are very very deep but I haven't 00:09:49.920 --> 00:09:56.079 really seen the whites yet okay throw your content universal 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:59.399 remote control customized with Android market and I think that's pretty much it 00:09:57.800 --> 00:10:04.120 I think the coolest thing about it by long shot is definitely the ability to 00:10:01.040 --> 00:10:06.760 play uh PS1 games on the go on your 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:10.000 tablet which turns it into a very awesome gaming platform because you have 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:15.560 not only all the Android games but also PlayStation games as well as a great 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:17.000 little media tablet so that's uh that's 00:10:15.560 --> 00:10:22.760 starting to look pretty neat to me actually so thank you for checking out 00:10:18.959 --> 00:10:24.959 this unboxing of the Sony S tablet and 00:10:22.760 --> 00:10:27.560 don't or Tablet S rather sorry and don't forget to subscribe to L techtips for 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:31.480 more unboxings reviews and other computer videos 00:10:29.920 --> 00:10:35.880 okay so it actually comes pre-loaded with Crash Bandicoot which I have never 00:10:34.079 --> 00:10:41.120 played but I'm trying to figure out right 00:10:37.800 --> 00:10:43.560 now how to uh how to 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:46.360 start so we can see what the gaming experience is 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:55.120 like pretty neat though pretty 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:58.680 neat okay I paused it here we go so I 00:10:55.120 --> 00:11:00.120 can run and jump okay so this behaves 00:10:58.680 --> 00:11:07.240 like it kind of like an analog stick where it's not uh just straight and I 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:07.240 fell down a hole okay so I start over 00:11:08.839 --> 00:11:14.000 cool I jump over the crab oh oh I think I jumped on the 00:11:14.079 --> 00:11:21.079 crab yeah forgive me for not being very good at this guys sorry it's like the 00:11:18.680 --> 00:11:26.880 first level I already died once whoa oh okay hold on oh I jumped on the 00:11:23.040 --> 00:11:29.680 crab can I double jump no apparently not 00:11:26.880 --> 00:11:33.480 okay so there you go guys that's the uh Playstation 1 gaming experience 00:11:31.880 --> 00:11:37.440 that we can expect to have on the Sony Tablet very cool