Sony Tablet P user reviews

dairolozano 12 October 2012

Good: Portability, image quality

Bad: Thick and heavy

Comment: Great concept !!. Split screen can feel a little bit weird at the beginning but you get used to it soon and is really great. Sure it won't replace your laptop but is just what you need on the way as a portable companion . I use it to read news, write emails, and chart. In all tasks feels really comfortable.

Fits on your jacket's pocket, and though is a little bit heavy and thick is really easy to carry. It's fancier enough to use at office with a suit and neck tie or use it outside with jeans and casual wear. I previously had a 7-inch tablet and really never took it with me. With this tablet is another thing. It's sober and elegant in the outside but once you open it people ask you about it with curiosity and even some envy.

Is easy to criticize something that you don't really know. My conclusion when I read hard critics to this tablet is that probably this device is not for everyone but for people that really need it nad know what is it for.

Toyozo Iida 8 January 2012

Comment: Sony is offering 'Buy a Tablet P, get a second battery free' in Japan until the end of March. Sony UK should do the same.

Matteo Paparoni 4 January 2012

Comment: Looks horrible

Alan Shortt 21 November 2011

Good: clamshell design

Bad: ugly on the outside quite thick and heavy

Comment: the best personal/mobile computer since the Psion 3 or the macbook air mini

i hope it's not just a concept especially one that will die because it's a concept that works (within its obvious limitations)

I've used it for web browsing (ahem email) and other work-related tasks so far and it works really well

having the keyboard in the bottom works well - despite the loss of real estate its good to separate what your looking at from what your typing - a super mini laptop seems better to me than a pure tablet - it fits comfortably in the hand - you can type easily on it in your hand or on a desk without staring down at it - compare to say the ipad - which is a great computer missing a keyboard

you can go out of the house with it discretely without looking and feeling like a dork

the ipad still has that dorkishness no-matter how good it is otherwise or how many they've sold

working on your iphone in cloud coffee house is obviously a no-no

the Sony P generates a degree of natural curiosity " whats that you're using mate" - rather than say " there's another c**t in the corner f**king on an ipad"

shame its a bit ahem "ugly" not quite retro - not quite modern

Sure you're paying for a ten inch screen and often only getting 5 inches - but I don't feel short-changed by that particularly

I'm rediscovering android despite my reluctance to learn yet another abstraction yet again - I don't particularly like how it appears on the Sony

I'm not bothered about Android apps per se but hope Sony keep up with the honeycomb developments for this device

As a usable practical device for doing what I need/want to do on the move the Sony P is a big step forward (although as the man says a belated one)

CrimsonAvenger 1 September 2011

Good: The dual screens

Bad: The dual screens

Comment: It was a good idea, but it needed to come out at the birth of Android and the tablet. I can't see developers bothering to modify apps for one niche model that's more expensive than an iPad2.
And as for gaming with those on-screen controls.....

A nice concept that should have stayed just that - a concept.