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[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Zeblade:
Man I was all set to order this and just surfing around found a Ipad mini 2 64gb $400. Brand new full warranty no refurbished. My kids have apply stuff not me. I never even looked at Ipad. For ME this little thing has the best battery life of any Android I have ever had. The only reason I got it was I could jailbrake it. Got the 7.06 on it just before they put out 7.1. Why they dont let people just theme and ad widgets I have no clue.

I do have another android (kinda older). Its just I was looking at $499 16 vs $400 64. I can still sell this and make money. I miss the live wall paper yet I always turned it off thinking its sucking battery lol. Then I find out some of the games that had those extra effects that only Nvidia could run. The ipad mini retina has all those effects. Hmm I bet that 801 chip would have no problems running any nvidia THD game.

If the Sony was just cheaper I would have got that. Not here to sell anything. I would rather have the Sony.. just love Android. But just wanted to share....I love this site.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] bbarou:
Just got mine.

Initial impressions:

It's so thin and light , it's almost uncanny.

Build quality is OK but the use of plastic feels a bit cheap for a device in this price range.

Way to many useless and unremovable apps for my taste (Facebook and Google+ first come to mind)

Tap does not always register. I often have to tap twice. This is a deal breaker. Does anyone experience the same thing?

The covers for the SD and USB ports look weak.

It also could have used a rotation lock switch .

This is me *****ing otherwise it looks like a great devices except for the part where touch doesn't always register (faulty unit?)

I'll make a system dump (non root) and post it in he development thread this afternoon.

Edit: Grammar
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Felimenta97:
The touch issues could be related to a faulty unit or maybe a not so perfect FW. If it is related to that, could be fixed. I think the first fw of the Tablet Z had the other way around: Too sensitive screen. And really, REALLY thanks about the system dump :P
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Trooper_Max:
I just got mine yesterday, and thought I had a few times with it not registering touches, but upon further testing, I think I was just missing the navigation buttons. I enabled the show touches option in the developer options and they seem to all register for me unless I'm on the very edge, overlapping the bezel. It does seem like the target areas for the navigation buttons are pretty small though and black navigation buttons blend right into the bezel. I'm confident this can all be addressed in firmware/software updates. Hopefully yours is too.

Overall I'm loving it - it's so light! The screen is a fingerprint magnet, but I can live with that since it looks great. The sound is great too - really everything I expected. I didn't order any accessories, but am now thinking the charging dock will be much more convenient than fiddling with the flaps to charge it. I am glad it is waterproof though, so I don't really have to worry about dropping it in the tub or pool.

~Troop
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] jonlad1:
I'm torn between the Galaxy tab pro 10.1 and the Z2

Can anyone post about their battery life? How is build quality? Any lag moving around the interface?
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Diamondback:
I agree on that screen issue. It seems like the navigation buttons only work if you completely hit them. If you miss them by a small margin they don't register. That's probably a software thing though. Apart from that.... Wow what a tablet, it's so thin and light. I really really like mine so far.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] bbarou:
After playing a bit with it, I have the exact same impressions: the navigation buttons are easily missed. The dead zone around the bezel is too large, and for some reason I often touch a few pixels away from my target. It's definitively not hardware related. But it bugs me, if it stills bugs me a week from now it'll go straight back to Sony.

About the battery life , I charged it to full yesterday afternoon, played with it for about 4 hours in the evening, mostly web and HD vids, It got 70% battery life left. It discharged 1% overnight . Too early to tell but looking good so far.

It feels very snappy. I did have one severe slowdown (once just opening a new tab in Firefox the whole tablet froze for like 10 seconds ) , it never happened since and it running butter smooth.

It's so slim and light that it's quite hard to hold actually. I struggled a bit to find an easy was to hold it with one hand whereas my old Iconia A500 (twice as thick and almost twice as heavy) feels more natural although more straining. Even with two hands the square edges are not comfortable.

I put the Z2 in my Iconia case for the time being, it does not fit perfectly but is much easier to hold.

Aside from the unremovable apps, as always, I'm quite positively surprised with the Sony ROM, it's very pleasant to use.

Nice touches: multi color notification led, front speakers are loud and clear, IR blaster (although the app sucks)

Now all I really want is root access...
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] jonlad1:
Awesome!

They should arrive in Australia next week, looks like I'll have to get one :)

Please keep dropping thoughts on it when you feel the need!

I'm sure the touch issue will be resolved with an update.

CM11 would be freaking amazing on this!
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Gnopps:
Review and benchmarking

A Polish site has published a review. Though I don't understand Polish the benchmarking results look very good; this tablet scores top in most, but not in the SunSpider Javascript benchmark where it is outperformed by others. Playing a HD-movie at 55% brightness gave a battery life of 12,5h. For normal usage the battery lasted about 3 days:

http://www.benchmark.pl/testy_i_recenzje/sony-xperia-z2-tablet-test/strona/21973.html
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] bbarou:
For the touch issue, I hope so.

For CM, usually I'd agree but Diamondback just made me see what is a killer feature for me :Networks shares mounting built-in.

This so awesome. I've been using CIFS Manager for quite some time but it's ancient, not maintained anymore, clunky, unreliable, and it's sometime a pain to find working modules.

This is built-in, it just works. All of a sudden CM can't compete.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] HarpingOn:
Just Windows shares though, if it's like Xperia phones. Not nfs. Or ftp. But still, yeah. It's something
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] bbarou:
I couldn't care less about FTP and I never messed with NFS.

I got four different OS at home (Linux, Windows, OS X and Android) , SMB is just universal and that's definitively a big plus.

Again I'm not familiar with NFS , what makes you prefer it?
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] HarpingOn:
I spend my time in a mixed hpux, aix, Solaris, Linux and bsd environment and nfs is much more common. Smb/cifs often requires extra config and packages. My home nas exports all its shares via nfs but I could add smb exports for the tablet.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] bbarou:
Ok, to me this feature is a VERY BIG PLUS, I've been messing with CIFS Manager for years with god knows how many devices. I really think this should be built into Android. But it likely won't happen. Google does not want us to have more storage be it SD cards or Networks shares or anything. They want us to use "the cloud" , preferably their services so we can give more information about ourselves.

For example,I've got hundreds of gigs of comics on my home server. I don't want to have them all on the tablet at all time nor could I.

But I want to be able to access any of them from that tablet whenever I want with any app of my choosing, at least when I'm at home. As I would do with any computer running Mac Os, Windows or Linux for that matter.

Storing them in "the cloud" sounds ridiculous and expensive to me. Plus I don't really care for Google (or any other) to know any more about me , my reading habits or anything.

Being able to just share it on my network and access it from any app without any third party, i'm sold out.

And it's not only by comics but everything.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] hasenbein1966:
Really astonishing how often I read in forums that people in fact openly admit they have TONS of pirated material which seems to be the most normal thing on earth for them...
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] bbarou:
And maybe you assume too much.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Diamondback:
Windows and SFTP to be exact, you can select which one you want to mount.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] SANGER_A2:
I'm in exactly the same boat! As far as I can see the z2 is better in ever way that matters except for the battery capacity. 2000mah seems like a big deal. Oh yeah and I need a genius to figure out root so I can use Autorun manager and titanium backup.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Timdb:
Can anyone test the tablet in the sunshine? Is the display still good readable ?

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9100 mit Tapatalk
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] jonlad1:
Is the extra bezel on the Z2 an issue for anyone?

Is everyones battery life still positive?
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] hasenbein1966:
I have the first generation Tablet Z and can attest:

The bigger bezels are NOT a problem, on the contrary they are a PLUS of the tablet because only this way the low weight of the device can be fully utilized by being able to hold it very comfortably with one hand!

And you can be 100% sure that Sony did retain the bezel size on the Z2 not because they otherwise wouldn't fit in the internals, but on purpose because they absolutely know that ergonomically the broader bezels are clearly better than the seemingly hip thin bezels.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] bbarou:
The bezel is no larger than my old Iconia A500's. And >As hasenbein1966 said, without it , it'd be difficult to hold it with one hand at least in landscape mode , it actually would make it better in portrait though.

But it bothers me none.

Haven't see any sunshine lately, mostly rain so can't help you there but just having a small light behind you when using the tablet is really bothersome, my guess is is it does not fare well outdoor.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Diamondback:
+1

Gesendet von meinem SGP512 mit Tapatalk
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] gregmorris234:
Can anyone tell me if this tablet has USB OTG? I know the Z2 phone supports it so can't see why this wouldn't. Thanks.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Diamondback:
Yes it does, mount point is "/storage/usbdisk/" :highfive:
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Diamondback:
Initial battery impressions: Looking good so far, second charge, down to 50% and I am currently at roughly 6h of screen-on-time (about 7h since plugging out).

Mainly watched videos but also surfed and played a bit of GTA:SA in that time.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] hasenbein1966:
Sounds too good... 6h screen on with 50% battery? With a 6000mAh battery? I doubt it. How was the screen brightness?
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Diamondback:
Well you are free to believe whatever you want, I'm just sharing my impressions and experiences. Brightness was set to auto all the time.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Felimenta97:
I believe you, in a heartbeat. But, when you get to around 5% (or the lowest you can get, if you gonna need to charge it for another reason earlier), could you post some screenshots? Battery time (graph + status), expanded graph, screen time and,if Stamina is active, how it is set up (from which %, if Performance Limit is activated).
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Gnopps:
First impressions

I got my 32GB wifi this afternoon and have been using it for a few hours. My very first impressions are these:

+Surfing (Firefox) works very well, even on heavy pages

+Quick in usage

+Sony's interface well done with apps that can be placed as an overlay

-Keypresses are not always registered. For example the double-tap wake sometimes does nothing. Other cases the lockscreen (whole screen) registers no input at all until I disconnect the charger or wait a while.

-Too reflective screen, even the little Finnish sun was a bit bothersome

-Have to open latch to charge the tablet, wonder how long before it breaks. Would have been better if Sony supplied a magnetic charger.

-Too much bloatware that can't be removed

-Bluetooth seems to drop connection at times when teethering

-Very poor camera, compared to my normal phone (HTC One S)
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Felimenta97:
The Tap to Wake thing might be the speed you use. At least with the Tab Z, it seems to have a very specific time between the touches to register... About the camera, it's a tablet, after all... Wouldn't expect much from such type of device...
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Diamondback:
Sure, will do, won't be 5% though more like 20 or so.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] hasenbein1966:
The latch? Be reassured, I have the Tablet Z, and the latches are easily stable and reliable enough.

Remember the Galaxy S2? When it came out, people said: "But the flimsy thin back cover! It will break! Why, Samsung?" But in fact it is very sturdy and absolutely not a problem.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Diamondback:
Yea they had a few issues with the port covers on the original Z phone but apparently fixed them by now.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] jonlad1:
I'm definitely interested in hearing more about battery life. sony must be doing some specials tricks to have a 6000 capacity battery lasting so long!

is build quality ok? any creaking?

is the screen that reflective?
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Diamondback:
Built quality is really nice, no creaking here.

I am not sure about the battery specs, afterall the mAh is

not

the only important thing.

Just as important is the voltage and until someone tears it down, we won't have any stats about that.

Stamnia is always enabled here, including the bit that should limit the hardware.

I can't see what it's doing though, the CPU clocks up to 2,3ghz if needed and also uses all 4 cores,

so I am not sure what exactly is getting limited with that option.

Screen reflection hasn't been an issue for me so far, but I didn't take it outside so far.

I don't have anything to measure the brightness but it seems rather high, at least a lot higher than my HTC One.

Down to 25% now with 9,5h screen-time.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] jonlad1:
Nice, thanks for your impressions.

What about charge time? Have you noticed any lag at all? The galaxy tab pro 10.1, people are still complaining about lag when navigating round the magazine UX interface.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Diamondback:
No idea about the charging time, charged it overnight ;)

I am not seeing any significant (or persistent for that matter) lag in any app (sony or 3rd party, except the Playstore of course...:rolleyes:).

Screen animations are nice and smooth. It does actually feel like a finished product.

Be aware with the white version though, it tends to get dirty if handled with dirty hands. On the plus side, you can easily clean wash it and it doesn't take any fingerprints on the white parts. :good:

Judging by the pictures from MWC, the black version is the worst fingerprint magnet you can imagine. (and that's the reason I got the white one)
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] jonlad1:
I cant wait to have a go with one of these things.

Yeah apparently only white ones will be available here as there is high demand for the black ones. I dont mind white.

Any heat when playing games/watching HD videos?

Wifi is good?
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Diamondback:
No heat issues while playing a bit of GTA:SA or anything else I tried so far.

Wifi seems to work nicely, but it didn't face really demanding environments yet.

Right next to the router it has about 50mbit/s throughput (54mbit/s network)
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Diamondback:
So here are the screenshots. Summary:

100% to 20% in 13h

10h screen-on-time (which makes about 12,5h until 0%)

Stamina mode always enabled including the "limit performance" option (even though I have no idea of what it actualy does)

Mostly video watching, but some browsing and playing included
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] bbarou:
After 3 days of ownership

Here's my thoughts after 3 days of ownership.

The Best:

Network share mounting built-in. This is one of the top selling point IMHO.

The feature is solid. Several shares cans be mounted.

If the network connection is lost the shares are automatically dismounted. As for apps , their behavior then vary (similar to how it'd behave on a desktop), some force close, some hang, some display a message.

There's a notification when a network share is mounted.

Upon clicking the notification you can choose to open the shares int either File Commander (built-in app) or QuickOffice. That's a let down, it's doesn't work with any other file manager I tried.

Another letdown is Android media manager doesn't not index the remote shares , it means apps only relying on it won't show the media files stored on the network by default. You can still launch the files from any file manager.

The Good:

The screen is a total beauty.

Impressively thin and light.

Snapdragon 801 is crazy fast!

3 GB of RAM! :

I have been using Firefox on my Galaxy S 3, and my biggest gripe with it is how much RAM it uses because as soon I switch to another app, Android kills it, and when I switch back to it it proceeds to re-open my tabs (and is quite slow at it).

No such things here.

IR basters.

Dualshock controller compatible (pairing is simple, the controller can even wake the tablet).

Notification light with color. It is quite small however, I can't see it from a few meters away.

Speakers are on the FRONT!

The Bad:

Can't remap Dualshock controller buttons (c'mon Sony that's a job halfway done).

This is no Galaxy Note, handwriting is a no-go.

The Ugly:

Touch doesn't always register. This is NOT a hardware problem.

But somehow with this tablet I often a to tap twice or more to get it to register, seems like you need to be extra precise where you touch.

The screen is a total beauty... in darkness. Even a small ambient light is bother some. I tried it outdoor and it is almost useless.

The tube lightning at work is also a problem , I mostly see myself. I wonder why manufacturers like glossy screens so much. This thing would be so much better with a mat screen.

Other toughts:

Stock Rom is quite good except for the bloatware. Some are removable but most are not .Admittedly some of the bloatware are Google Apps that Sony is bound by contract to integrate (Playstand, Play Books etc..).

I've been flashing alternative ROMs for year, this is the first device that makes me almost content with the stock ROM.

Besides network shares and dualshock integration, there's also a built-in backup app , it's no Ti Backup equivalent but it is not too bad.

I'll probably keep it on the devices even if I'll miss a few Omnirom or CM options.

I'm definitively glad I bought it even though the touch issue bothers me a bit , hopefully a firmware upgrade will fix things.

I'm also glad I choose the white version, fingerprints are almost invisible and cleaning is easy.

I haven't been gaming much with it yet. I'll check if I have any sound delay as others have reported.

That's it for now.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] hasenbein1966:
Er??

If the network shares are mounted, ES File Explorer or Solid Explorer should be able to access the shares!

Or are they mounted with special rights so that the normal user is not allowed to access them? That would be a real bummer and counteract the whole purpose of mounting!

And we would have to wait for root in order to correct that...
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] bbarou:
Of course Es and any file explorer can access them.

What I said is the shares ar not indexed by android media scanner . So if you launch , say, the Walkman app it won't show any media files that's on the network shares when you open it because it relies on android media storage to display its content.

You can still open any media file on the shares in the Walkman app VIA ES explorer or other, but it's just less smooth.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] hasenbein1966:
Thanks God the media scanner doesn't index the network shares!

If it would, it would be very slow and hog system resources for a long time. Not practical.

Use apps which maintain an own index which is updated manually (e.g. Poweramp, GoneMad Music Player etc.).
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] SANGER_A2:
Thank you very much for all these really useful pieces of first-hand info on the tablet. I hope you haven't been getting annoyed with it!

My main worry about this tablet was battery life, you have put that worry to rest!

If anyone has bluetooth headphones or headset, could you check they don't interfere with wifi when watching hd videos on youtube please? There are loads of android devices that have major issues with bluetooth and wifi being used at the same time.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] bbarou:
I can understand why you would not want media mananger to scan network shares. Personally I'd prefer an option.

My tablet very rarely leaves home and the media files doesn't change so often, so I'd rather leave it plugged a night, index everything and have everything ready in any app.

And and I hate Poweramp with a passion...
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] Gnopps:
Touch problem

I'm having the same problem. For me the tablet randomly doesn't recognize touches during the below instances. In all cases either going to the home screen and relaunching the app or turning the screen off/on will solve the problem. The problems occur several times per day but not constantly.

Sometimes opening apps will cause everything but the bottom android-buttons to be non-responsive. This can happen in any app it seems, including native ones such as Google Play.

Sometimes the lockscreen doesn't recognize touches at all.

While charging I've had issues getting the touchscreen to recognize, disconnecting the charger has helped.

Double-tap to wake seems to be very moody, sometimes working sometimes not. Sometimes it turns the screen on even by me just holding the tablet with my palm resting against the screen.

While not a bug per se, but the android-buttons seem very picky that you have to hit them right on the spot to work.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] HarpingOn:
Wish I could give an initial impression but still no tablet and the Sony store is now awol
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] PsyMonkey:
I called them (Sony UK) on Friday and they guy said they are receiving more stock of the Xperia Z2 Tablet on that day (Friday 28th) and the docking stations today Mon 31 Mar. So according to his best judgement he said it should be shipped on Tue/Wens. But I am taking this with a pinch of salt.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] desspil:
Hi all,

I play with it since 3 days....and one word for me AMAZING !!!

I'm totally in love with it, it works really good !

It may be possible that I won't flash or root it...don't know yet.
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] flathunt:
Marvellous - I had a 16gb black one on pre-order for the last month from sonymobile, then saw this this morning:

http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/04/01/europeans-get-5-off-the-xperia-z2-tablet-for-a-limited-time/

So cancelled the sonymobile one, ordered this, in white, with a free docking station and an extra 16gb for just £25 more. And apparently it'll ship tomorrow, the sonymobile one wasn't even in stock. Upsold, but what the hey...
[Xperia Z2 Tablet General] HarpingOn:
I didn't get a free dock option. I did get a free three year warranty. I wonder if it'll fit in the dock whilst in the official case?

Also ... shipped today! Hooray! By ukmail though. Boo. Hopeless shower they are.