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i am jason jenkins was seen at sony's offices in london with the tablet z let's take a look the first thing that sony is very proud of is that the interface is the same as the one on its flagship phone the Xperia said with a lot more screen real estate sewing doesn't offer a standard Android experience that adds a bunch of extra apps for music photography video and more if you just want to pick up the tablet and use it with your Sony gear that's a good thing but the downside is that you'll have to wait longer to get the latest Android software updates if that doesn't matter to you though Sony's software looks pretty useful the Walkman app contains a bunch of EQ settings that lets you tweak the sound that comes out of the four speakers until your heart's content there's a simple clear audio setting that punches everything up automatically or you can override it with some faders until you're happy with the sound you're getting in the battery settings switching on the stamina mode turns various functions of the tablet off so you can eke out the battery for longer sony says up to four times longer if there's an app you want to continue to function as normal say one that automatically notifies you when something new has happened you can just add it to a list sony says it's been working with its camera division to bring some of its technology over to the tablet z and that includes the camera menus there are very short cuts to things like burst mode picture effects panoramas and more plus when you look at the pictures with Sony's app there's a cool effect when you zoom in and out of them a universal remote app works with the built-in IR blaster to control TV's blu-ray players and other home entertainment boxes sony has a large database of products already loaded onto the tablet so you should be able to select the manufacturer and model of your product from a list and everything will just work but if you're TV isn't there you can add it manually finally there's TV sideview an app that displays an EPG of what's coming up on the TV channels you receive it also lets you control the apps on certain Smart TVs and search across different sources for a program including YouTube and Sony's own content network so that Sony's tablet said it's out in May i'm jason jenkins vecina see you next time you