Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Hands on with the Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet & Xperia M4 Aqua at MWC 2015”.
Hello, this is sam with the verge of mobile world congress 2015 and we’re at sony’s booth and the big announcement this year is the xperia z4 tablet. The z4 is super thin. It’S 6.1 millimeters thin, which is about the same as the ipad air 2., and although sony no longer makes laptops, it sold the bio division off uh. It’S positioning this as a bit more of a productivity device. There’S this keyboard dock which comes in, and you can slot it in here and you have what is a reasonable facsimile of a laptop when it’s closed, it’s a pretty like smart thing. The the keyboard is not amazing. The keys do feel a bit hollow and a lot of them are smaller than i’d like, and it does have a bit of a cheap feel, but at the same time it does basically work and it’s certainly a better uh typing experience than you get on a Tablet or you know, competing docs out there already and so yeah. This is definitely um being sort of pitched as a productivity focused android device uh. The screen is really good.
It’S a 2k display which is 26 25, 60 x, 1600 super bright and sharp um sony says the battery life should be pretty impressive, with the six thousand milliamp per hour battery. One thing about the z4 tablet: is it’s actually uh some way off release? It’S not coming out until june and we don’t have pricing information just yet, but um from what we can see here if you’re in the market for an android tablet. This does look like a pretty good option. I mean the question: there is whether you are in the market for an android tablet, because uh android tablets and ipads alike have been sort of not setting the world on fire of light, but uh. If this is the kind of thing you’re after, i think the z4 tablet may make you happy. So aside from the z4 tablet, uh sony’s phone announcement of this show is the xperia m4 aqua, which is it’s kind of a mid-range device. But it’s designed to take a lot of the design features from the flagship, xperia z3 and put it into a more affordable price point uh.
This is going to retail for around 300 euros and i think for that, it’s uh, it’s a pretty impressive, offering the build is very solid. It looks very much like one of sony’s more premium phones, even though it is made of plastic. The screen is 5 inches and 720p, so it’s not the highest resolution out there, but um in terms of color reproduction and viewing angles and stuff.
It’S it’s pretty good uh. The phone is also waterproof, as with the uh tablet and a lot of other sony products. These days, sony is also touting the cameras on this device there. It’S a 13 megapixel shooter on the rear and a 5 megapixel wide angle, uh selfie camera on the front um.
As ever. The crazy lighting of a show floor is probably not the best place to be drawing too many conclusions about the camera’s performance, but um they’re, definitely making it a feature of the phone um, so yeah, all in all, as a device for this price goes. I think this looks like a pretty solid effort.
Obviously there are companies like motorola that will undercut them on curb price, but uh. Certainly the same with this device is to kind of give some of that premium dna in a lower price point – and this seems like a pretty good, pretty successful effort to fulfill that mandate. So yeah the sony xperia m4 request at mobile world congress.
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