The Xperia is also now the thinnest 10-inch tablet at 6.9mm and 495grams. It boasts as high-resolution 1920x1200 display that is enhanced with Sony's Mobile Bravia Engine 2 technology.

The core of this beast has Qualcomm's Snapdragon s4 Pro chip clocked at 1.5ghz. This combined with a 2gb of Ram, Sony has also built in 32Gb of storage as well as support for microSD. If that wasn't enough, the tablet also come with an 8.1 megapixel Exmor R rear camera.

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Similar to Sony's highly received Sony Xperia flagship smartphone, the Xperia Tablet Z also incporates protection from both water and dust with a repellant coating applied inside and outside of the device. Battery life is about 8hrs.