Sony Tablet S Goes Up for Pre-order, Ships September 16
Sony Tablet S Goes Up for Pre-order, Ships September 16
Posted 09/05/2011 at 11:24am
| by Paul Lilly
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For those who go back to school the day after Labor Day, Sony managed to make its Tablet S available via pre-order on the final day of summer break, though don't expect any back-to-school discounts. The 16GB Wi-Fi model carries the now traditional $500 price tag, and you can add another C-note if you want the 32GB model.
Sony's Tablet S is a 9.4-inch slate powered by Nvidia's 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor. It has 1GB of RAM, a 1280x800 screen resolution with Sony's TruBlack technology, 0.3MP front-facing camera, 5MP rear-facing camera, IR remote control function, Bluetooth, microUSB port, SD card slot, 3.5mm headphone output, and 5000mAh battery, and Android Honeycomb 3.1 running the show.
Sounds like just another Android tablet, however the details are in the design. PCWorld spent some hands on time with a pre-production model and noted that Sony's "design mojo...infuses originality and flair into a tablet market that desperately needs both." It's a tapered tablet that starts off at 0.3 inches and increases in thickness to 0.79 inches. It's intended to replicate the feel of a folded magazine, and Sony says the center of gravity shifts the device's weight closer to your palm so that it's lighter and more comfortable while reading a book or watching a video.
The Tablet S will starting shipping on September 16.
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Keith E. Whisman
September 05, 2011 at 7:36pm
Tablets need to be 10" or larger and cost around $300 dollars and I don't mean $399 either but more like $299 for a 16Gig model. $299 for 16Gb models and the market will swing heavily over to android. Tablets need to be Android and stay that way because if you start to flood the market with dozens of different OSes you'll end up with nobody happy. One OS to rule them all and leave it open to be improved by anyone that can make it better. If everyone works on perfecting Android then we'll have a tablet OS that can't be beat. HP shouldn't have bought WebOS and then tried to use it. They should have let it die and work on Android. Android is where it's always ever been and will stay.
It looks like Sony took the same ole guts and put them in a new shiny box with a smaller display then the competition and on top of that Sony is charging $200 dollars too much for it.
Perhaps if it came with a dock or something like could anyone possibly justify the $500 dollar price tag.
aerotive
September 05, 2011 at 6:33pm
Another one that won't sell, just like all the other android tablets. At that price they need to be much better than the ipad, at best they're equal. That or cut the price by 30% or more.
steakkills
September 05, 2011 at 2:09pm
Why don't they create an affordable tablet not a $500 piece of shit, you can buy an Archos 9 pc tablet running windows 7 for the same price and double the storage 32GB for 500 instead of 16
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