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hey everybody Michael Fisher with pocket now Tony behind the camera we're at MWC 2013 still and we are checking out the new Sony Xperia tablet Z now before we get into the software here we just want to look at this hardware we don't have a measurement in front of us on the spec sheet but this is incredibly thin and light for a for a 10-inch tablet and this is a 10.1 inch reality display we'll get to that in a second but this is a soft it's not quite soft touch coating on the back it's more like a like a really expensive the countertop or something like that but absolutely can't overstate just how light this is it's almost hard to believe I'm holding a 10-inch tablet on the left side of the device we have our standby button a lot of the design cues here echo those of the Xperia Z smartphone power standby button and volume rocker there you can see a little flap flaps and all we have the return of the flap for your headphone jack so I'm here actually that's the charging port these are charging terminals some information about the units some speaker ports but otherwise everything just held you know everything hidden very very nicely maybe a microphone up top here and of course the Xperia branding on the back this is an 8 megapixel 8.1 megapixel camera with Exmoor our HDR for photos there is a 2 megapixel front camera there's the Sony branding there and a 6 thousand milliamp hour battery powering at all even though it is so thin and light go ahead and power on the display and you can see possible hopefully it reads on the video just how absolutely gorgeous this display is from the front and there's of course a stock summary background but once you get a little bit off angle here and you'll notice you do delve into some Gray's here it's obviously not a it's a it's a temporary one inch reality display at 1920 by 1200 resolution obviously not AMOLED or something because you're not seeing the deepest blacks in the world similar to what we saw once again on the Xperia Z smartphone this is running Android 4.1.2 like like an off a lot of tablets are nowadays with Sony's custom skin over the top of it take a brief look at this skin we'll just hop on back out of here and we'll go back to the home screen obviously configurable home screens some widgets here if you want to press and hold we can do that we can see the outline of all the home screens here apps widgets wallpapers and so forth there's also support for themes just as you might expect from Sony all of this has done up in a really wonderful minimalistic look that's that's not anywhere near the Metro design language from Microsoft is just something very very different it doesn't even look like Android at points until you hop into something like like the app drawer but just the beauty of the software is absolutely matching the beauty of the of the hardware as someone who as someone who doesn't carry 10-inch tablets very often this is one I would definitely consider picking up just on the merits of this pass alone and we should mention while I'm thinking of it here that this device also comes with an aluminum colored bezel in addition to the black that we see here and on the back that's just very very clean isn't it there is NFC aboard so these might talk to each other I'm not entirely sure these are the two available colors with the Xperia tablet Z which we're going to be taking more of a look at as the days go by and certainly this will not be the last time you see one of these in our hands Michael with pocket now tell me behind the camera MWC 2013 at Sony thanks for watching stay tuned for more