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hey guys it's David with the Virgen we're here looking at the Sony Xperia Tablet S is brand new it was just announced in Berlin but we got a chance to check it out in New York City as well so as you can see it looks a little bit like some of the Sony tablets before it's super light and really thin it looks really nice it runs a Tegra 3 processor it has Android 4.0 and it has some waterproof covering and a nine-point 4 inch 1280 by 800 display so there are a bunch of new accessories that come with the tablet but one of the coolest ones is this keyboard case it's a $99 case and the tablet slides in and then actually props up it reminds us a bit of the Microsoft Surface and so it has this capacitive keys here which automatically are enacted or enabled when you put it in and they're actually surprisingly good for typing it's a little laggy that we've seen but it's pretty accurate and that's a big keyboard and it's a cool thing to have that doesn't add any weight to a case and then whenever you're done you can just close it and then it just carries around like any other folio case you might have but what's really interesting is some of the software that Sony has put in so let's take a look at some of that one of the biggest changes they've made is to the universal remote control there was already a universal remote on here but now you can actually add as many devices as you want and you can add macro so you can do things like turn on your TV and your blu-ray player and tune to a certain channel all at once and it makes it a much more capable remote control and it all works through an IR blaster on the device and it's a pretty neat thing to have on a device that's likely to be in your home anyway there's also a really visual TV guide that shows you all the things that are on TV at any given time and based on what you've watched and it'll connect to your social networks it'll actually make a TV show bigger or smaller based on what you want to watch so like apparently I really want to watch First Take and I'm less interested in day playing it's just a cool way to watch TV and is a way better way to navigate all your junk there's also a new guest mode on the tablet which is pretty cool it's an easy way to switch between different users which gives you different permissions for certain apps and disable settings or won't let you into the browser and it's a great way if you have kids especially to say here you can play games but we don't want you looking at the internet or accidentally buying things on the Play Store it's a really clever easy feature to get in and out of you and you just need a passcode to get out and then just like that you're right back to where you were there's also a lot of Sony's other software from its expiry offends this is the first Xperia Tablet so they've branded it with the same look and feel and a lot of the same apps you get the PlayMemories and there's the Music Unlimited and the video unlimited so it's definitely designed to be used in conjunction with an expiry alone so that's pretty much it this is the Sony Xperia Tablet S it's going to be available next week but it's up for pre-order now it starts at $399 and depending on how much stores you want can cost up to $5.99