Tablet Review: Sony Tablet S Sloping Touchscreen Tablet

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The Sony Tablet S has been a long time coming! With the firm adamant on not doing things by halves with its tablets and promising something genuinely different, we were curious to see what Sony had finally managed to come up with.

The S is another one of many Android Honeycomb tablets on the market right now, but unlike most other models it has a 9.4-inch screen. Note that our Sony S came running Honeycomb 3.1 but an update is now available for version 3.2 of Google's OS.

The Sony S has a 1 Ghz Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of memory for storing files. There's a 5-Megapixel camera for taking photos and shooting video (up to 720p) on the back of the tablet and a 1.3-Megapixel webcam on the front. Sony has also had the very good idea of equipping the S with an SD/SDHC memory card slot, which is more than can be said for most tablet makers (although there is an SDHC card slot on the Asus Eee Pad Transformer keyboard dock). Otherwise, the S has a micro USB port for file transfer and a 3.5 mm jack for hooking up headphones.

Plus, the Tablet S is the only tablet to have a built-in infrared transceiver for use with a universal remote control app that's compatible with loads of audiovisual devices—made by Sony and other manufacturers.

All of this technology is packed into a product casing that's certainly got people talking. The S has a fairly chunky design and is thicker at one end so it slopes down towards you when placed flat on a table. Interesting!

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