Sony S1 Playstation Android Tablet PC Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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2,196 words · ~10 min read
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welcome to L techtips today we're going to be unboxing a brand new Sony Tablet
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this is a 9.4 in tablet PC it features
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Android Honeycomb and it comes in an attractive brown box that we're going to
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go ahead and break the seal on because that is what we do on this channel we
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unbox things and then we take a first look at them so here is
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is my first look oh PlayStation certified
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fascinating okay so the Sony Tablet this is the S tablet device Sony got their
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little slogan here make believe got a picture of the tablet itself which looks
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pretty slick although I would expect that from a Sony product PlayStation certified we already talked about on the
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side we see not a whole lot on the other side we see not much here we see some
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general specs so 9.4 in tablet 16 gig s
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SD it has an SD slot an IR blaster now that's cool uh dual webcams Tegra 2
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Bluetooth honeycomb and it is a tablet all right so not a whole lot to say for
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itself on the outside of the box Al the IR Blaster is a very cool feature
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because what that means is you can use it as a
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remote very neat okay quick start guide
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getting started here I'm just going to turn this around so everyone can see what we're doing
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here um support website okay what's it want you to do in the Box okay well
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we'll see what's in the box anyway how to charge the battery okay and then
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turning on your device press the power button for three seconds well that is a
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quick start guide because that's uh not going to take very long here's the
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tablet itself that is a strange shape okay we'll get to that in a minute hold
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on guys okay that is another quick start
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guide press the button unlock the thing log into Google
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okay you'd think they would have just put that on the quick start guide but I
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guess not important information
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uh FCC regulations and safety and whatnot okay and user license agree
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really oh for certain software for your Sony tablet device okay and then limited
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warranty statement so how long is our warranty this is
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a probably a one-year warranty based on that tablets are generally one-ear
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warranty but I'd hate to be wrong although I am wrong sometimes
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okay give me a minute here guys go ahead and found it guys it's a
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one-year limited warranty and it can be transferred to a subsequent
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owner so that's kind of cool so that's kind of like XFX is uh dual dual
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lifetime warranty except it's not lifetime it's one year but uh you can
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actually sell your tablet give them your receipt and then they will have warranty
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coverage from Sony if you decide to upgrade your tablet to something else uh
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down the road so that's kind of neat all right we've got a power cord got a power
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brick power brick I'm just going to show you guys the old iPhone size comparison
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so you can get some idea of how big it is all right so there's that and then
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there it is uh next to the iPhone itself
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so you can kind of see how big it is not too heavy um I mean there's something to
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be said for this longer cord style I
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mean the uh Samsung Galaxy as well as the assus Transformer which I had here
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just for size comparison both come with little proprietary USB cables that go
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into like custom dot connectors and there is something to be said for a
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longer cable like this because it means that you can put this next to your
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nightstand bring the cable up onto the nightstand and charge it every night uh
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conveniently rather than relying on it to
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uh rather than relying on a USB extension cable to get the cord to be
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long enough so here is the tablet itself and
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the very first thing I noticed about it was this look at that it is not it it it
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is on a slant so I guess the way Sony
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intends for you to use it is sort of
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mostly one way although it's not uncomfortable to hold in portrait
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orientation either so first thing we're going to do is uh let's find the power
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button and hold it for probably 3 seconds based on the quick start guides
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indication okay there it is it's turning on right now what else do we have for
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buttons here we've got a volume up volume down look at that a hardware
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reset switch that is worth its weight in
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gold because things happen from time to time and I'm not saying anything
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particularly about Sony's tablets but
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once in a while I have had Android tablets lock up and fortunately on the
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one that locked up on me a couple times I was uh able to remove the battery in
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order to hard reset it but if if I had
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one that didn't have a hard reset switch and I couldn't remove the battery I
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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
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the tablet back on so that that would have been bad uh this
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is looks like a speaker Grill of some sort okay so let's uh turn around this
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way so here we find kind of a rounded textured you can see there's little uh
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rubber no I think they're plastic little plastic bumps on it so that gives it a
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very nice feel actually and you would be very unlikely to drop this tablet while
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holding on to that part of it here we've got a headphone jack which is recessed
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back here so you're not going to have any undue strain on your on your chord
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we've also got an SD card slot as well as I don't
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know what is that is that some kind of USB connector looks like a one two it's
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five pin USB I think but guys correct me if I'm wrong on this one tell me what
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that is if you know better than I do uh there's another speaker and uh okay give
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me a sec guys oh no one more thing here is our power connector so here's where
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this goes let's see is this magnetic or what
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how's this work no goes
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on looks like uh H oh it's
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keyed so it goes in yeah I think it's
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this way and I dropped it there we go so it
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goes in like that so you can select your language to begin I'm going to select
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English United States because English Canada usually isn't an option I can set
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up Wi-Fi later okay pretty responsive so
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far actually uh set up accounts later
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let's see if we can just get to the home screen really quick here yeah there we
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go okay so gliding around this is pretty much what I would expect from a Tegra 2
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tablet in terms of responsiveness um they're all pretty much the same uh we
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can connect to the internet here Wi-Fi
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actually no this one's feeling pretty pretty darn responsive right about now
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so turn on the
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Wi-Fi add a Wi-Fi network oh no apparently that's the way to do it
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manually okay give me a second here guys I'll be back so this is cool there are
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actually some features here that I was not aware of that make this very unique
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and very different from other Android tablets which let's face it are fairly
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similar beyond the form factor or maybe the keyboard that they use the desktop
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wallpaper they come pre-loaded with what ports they have these are all the
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differentiating factors well Sony has found a way to take that standard
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Android Honeycomb software and turn turn it into something very very unique so uh
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we've got here let's have a look at the apps that they have pre-loaded here
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Video Unlimited reader select app social feed remote control and video player so
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this ties into a few things that we found on the Sony website which uh hold
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on Game Loft oh they don't have the okay
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well here let's go on to the Sony website and have a look at what they
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have to say for themselves here so it's for PlayStation games it's e-reader for
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ebooks okay music new movies through the Sony Entertainment Network it does work
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as a universal remote which is very cool that is a feature that this particular
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tablet has over the other tablets that I
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am aware of especially if it works well
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and you can share View and transfer personal videos and photos music to your
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DLNA compatible PC TV or speakers which is also really neat because a tablet
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especially when it's only got like 16 gigs of storage on it is only as useful
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as the amount of data that you can use on it at any given time so speaking of
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which unlimited entertainment gives you access to Sony Music as well as videos
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very very cool Swift and smooth experience like I said we've come to
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expect that from Tegra 2 and it is PlayStation certified so yeah you can
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actually play Playstation games on this tablet using the onscreen controller and
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then the obviously the screen ergonomic design to fit your hand so what they're
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saying about this particular design is that it's supposed to feel kind of like
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uh like a rolled up magazine like a when you peeled the cover over or or an open
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book and it is comfortable you know what it is comfortable I'd say it's not quite
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natural to me yet given that I've had it in my hands for like a couple minutes
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but uh it's definitely something that I could get used to compared to the
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symmetrical tablets that I am accustomed to at this time so other than that I
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don't see too much more here uh nothing
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about the panel technology that it's using although I can check here to see
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what they have to say about that no they just say resolution screen size although they do say that the screen is using
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true black technology whatever that means uh I don't know what kind of panel
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it is but it looks pretty good I can't quite evaluate the brightness yet let me
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just crank the brightness up and see what I think of it after that
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so yeah looks quite vibrant uh the blacks are very very deep but I haven't
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really seen the whites yet okay throw your content universal
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remote control customized with Android market and I think that's pretty much it
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I think the coolest thing about it by long shot is definitely the ability to
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play uh PS1 games on the go on your
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tablet which turns it into a very awesome gaming platform because you have
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not only all the Android games but also PlayStation games as well as a great
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little media tablet so that's uh that's
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starting to look pretty neat to me actually so thank you for checking out
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this unboxing of the Sony S tablet and
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don't or Tablet S rather sorry and don't forget to subscribe to L techtips for
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more unboxings reviews and other computer videos
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okay so it actually comes pre-loaded with Crash Bandicoot which I have never
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played but I'm trying to figure out right
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now how to uh how to
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start so we can see what the gaming experience is
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like pretty neat though pretty
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neat okay I paused it here we go so I
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can run and jump okay so this behaves
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like it kind of like an analog stick where it's not uh just straight and I
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fell down a hole okay so I start over
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cool I jump over the crab oh oh I think I jumped on the
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crab yeah forgive me for not being very good at this guys sorry it's like the
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first level I already died once whoa oh okay hold on oh I jumped on the
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crab can I double jump no apparently not
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okay so there you go guys that's the uh Playstation 1 gaming experience
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that we can expect to have on the Sony Tablet very cool