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welcome to on detectives today we're going to be unboxing a brand new sony tablet this is a nine point four inch tablet pc features android honeycomb and it comes in an attractive round box that we're going to go ahead and break the seal on because that is what we do on this channel we unbox things and then we take a first look at them so here is my first look PlayStation Certified fascinating ok so the sony tablet this is the S tablet device Sony upward their little slogan here make-believe got a picture of the tablet itself which looks pretty slick although I would expect that from a Sony product PlayStation Certified we already talked about on the side we see not a whole lot on the other side we see not much here we see some general specs so nine point four inch tablet 16 gig SSD it has an SD slot and IR blaster now that's cool dual webcams Tegra 2 bluetooth honeycomb and it is a tablet all right oh not a whole lot to say for itself on the outside of the voxel of the IR blaster is a very cool feature because what that means is you can use it as a remote very neat okay quick start guide getting started harems and turn this around so everyone can see what we're doing here um support website ok what's it want you to do in the box okay well we'll see what's in the box anyway how to charge the battery okay and then turning on your device press the power button for three seconds well that is a quick start guide because that's not gonna take very long here's the tablet itself that is a strange shape okay we'll get to that in a hole injection okay that is another Quick Start Guide press the button unlock the thing log in to Google okay you think they would have just put that on the quick start guide that I guess I'll important information FCC regulations and safety and whatnot okay and user License agree really Oh for certain software for your sony tablet device ok and then limited warranty statement so how long is our warranty this is a probably a one-year warranty based that tablets are generally one-year warranty but I'd hate to be wrong although I am wrong sometimes okay give me a minute here guys go ahead and found it guys it's a one-year limited warranty and it can be transferred to a subsequent owner so that's kind of cool so that's kind of like XFX is dual dual lifetime warranty except it's not lifetime it's one year but you can actually sell your tablet give them your receipt and then they will have warranty coverage from Sony if you decide to upgrade your tablet to something else down the road so that's kind of neat all right we've got a power cord got a power brick power brick I'm just going to show you guys the old iphone size comparison so you can get some idea of how big it is alright so there's that and then there it is next to the iPhone itself so you can kind of see how big it is not too heavy I mean there's something to be said for this longer cord style i mean the samsung galaxy as well as the suits transformer which I have here just for size comparison both come with little proprietary USB cables that go into like custom dock connectors and there is something to be said for a longer cable like this because it means that you can put this next to your nightstand bring the cable up on to the nightstand and charge it every night conveniently rather than relying on it too rather than relying on a USB extension cable to get the cord to be long enough so here is the tablet itself and the very first thing I noticed about it was this look at that it is not it is on a slant so I guess the way Sony intends for you to use it is sort of mostly one way although it's not uncomfortable to hold in portrait orientation either so first thing we're going to do is I'll just find the power button and hold it for probably three seconds based on the Quick Start guides indication okay there it is it's turning on right now what else do we have four buttons here we've got a volume up volume down look at that a hardware reset which that is worth its weight in gold because things happen from time to time and I'm not saying anything particularly about Sony's tablets but once in a while I have had android tablets lock up and fortunately on the one that locked up on me a couple times I was able to remove the battery in order to hard reset it but it if I had one that didn't have a hard reset switch and I couldn't remove the battery I don't know what I would have done all I would have had to wait for the battery to die in standby mode in order to turn the tablet back on so that would be bad this is looks like a speaker grill of some sort okay so let's turn around this way so here we find kind of a rounded textured you can see there's little rubber no I think they're plastic little plastic bumps on it so that gives it a very nice feel actually and you would be very unlikely to drop this tablet while holding on to that part of it here we've got a headphone jack which is recessed back here so you're not going to have any undue strain on your on your cord we've also got da da da da an SD card slot as well as I don't know what is that some kind of USB connector looks like a 15 pin USB I think but guys correct me if I'm wrong on this one tell me what that is if you know better than I do there's another speaker and ok give me a sec guys oat note one more thing here is our power connector so here's where this goes let's see is this magnetic or what how's this work no goes on looks like hmm oh it's keyed so it goes in yeah I think it's this way and I drop it there we go so goes I'm like that so you can select your language to begin I'm going to select english united states because English Canada usually isn't an option I can set up Wi-Fi later ok pretty responsive so far actually set up accounts later let's see if we can just get to the home screen really quick here now there we go ok so gliding around this is pretty much what I would expect from a Tegra 2 tablet in terms of respond cygnus they're all pretty much the same we can connect to the internet here Wi-Fi actually no this one's feeling pretty pretty darn responsive right about now so turn on the Wi-Fi add a Wi-Fi network nope nope apparently that's the way to do it manually okay give me a second here guys I'll be back so this is cool there are actually some teachers here that I was not aware of that make this very unique and very different from other Android tablets which let's face it are fairly similar beyond the form factor or maybe the keyboard that they use the desktop wallpaper they come pre-loaded with what ports they have these are all the differentiating factors well sony has found a way to take that standard Android Honeycomb software and turn it into something very very unique so we've got here let's have a look at the apps that they have pre-loaded here video unlimited reader select app social feed remote control and video player so this ties into a few things that we found on the sony website which hold on gameloft well they don't have the okay well let's go on to the sony website and have a look at what they have to say for themselves here so it for playstation games it's ereader for e-books okay music new release movies through the sony entertainment network it does work as a universal remote which is very cool that is a feature that this particular tablet has over the other tablets that i am aware of especially if it works well and you can share view and transfer personal videos and photos music to your DLNA compatible pc TV or speakers which is also really neat because a tablet especially when it's only got like 16 gigs of storage on it is only as useful as the amount of data that you can use on it at any given time so speaking of which unlimited entertainment gives you access to sony music as well as videos very very cool Swift and smooth experience like I said we've come to expect that from Tegra 2 and it is PlayStation Certified so yeah you can actually play playstation games on this tablet using the onscreen controller and then the obviously the screen ergonomic design to fit hands so what they're saying about this particular design is that it's supposed to feel kind of like like a rolled-up magazine like a peeled the cover over or an open book and it is comfortable you know what it is comfortable I'd say it's not quite natural to me yet given that I've had in my hands for like a couple minutes but it's definitely something that I could get used to compared to the symmetrical tablets that I am accustomed to at this time so other than that I don't see too much more here nothing about the panel technology that it's using although i can check here to see what they have to say about that milk they just say resolution screen sizes they do say that the screen is using true black technology whatever that means I don't know what kind of panel it is but it looks pretty good I can't quite evaluate the brightness yet let me just crank the brightness up and see what I think of it after that so yeah it looks quite vibrant the blacks are very very deep but I haven't really seen the whites yet okay through your content universal remote control customized with android market and i think that's pretty much it i think the coolest thing about it by a long shot is definitely the ability to play ps1 games on the go on your tablet which turns it into a very awesome gaming platform because you have not only all the android games but also playstation games as well as a great little media tablet so that's a that's starting to look pretty neat to me actually so thank you for checking out this unboxing of the sony s tablet and don't bar tablet s rather start and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos okay so it actually comes preloaded with crash bandicoot which i have never played but i'm trying to figure out right now how to how to start so we can see what the gaming experience is like pretty neat though pretty neat okay i paused it here we go so I can run and jump ok so this behaves like a kind of like an analog stick where it's not just straight and I fell down a hole ok so I start over cool they jump over the crap oh I think I jumped on the crown yep forgive me for not being very good at this guy's sorry it's like the first level I already died once whoa ok hold on oh oh I jumped on the crab can I double jump no probably not ok so there you go guys that's the PlayStation 1 gaming experience that we can expect to have on the sony tablet very cool