Originally Posted by
xxTinkerbellexx:
“Been looking at these after reading about all the problems with the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tablet.
Anyone got one of these are care to give us some user feedback?
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My OH got one when they were launched, and very nice it is too.
It runs Android 3.2, I wouldn't say, in use, that it is any better than the Asus Transformer, but it is smaller and lighter. It has a micro USB and full size SD card slots.
Oddly enough, out of the box, it won't play music, picture or movie files directly from the SD card, instead insisting that these be transferred to internal storage first, which is a pain. However we found an app that gets around that. This is important as the 16GB model only had 9GB free internal storage out of the box.
The other thing we don't like is that the charging lead has a laptop-like transformer (albeit smaller). The Asus has a wall-plug charger and the charging lead is USB - we use this charger for mobile phones, Kindles, iPods and tablets, why couldn't Sony use a USB charger?
There is a desk dock (which she doesn't have) which doubles as a charger and a stand to allow the tablet to be used as a photo viewer.
Being smaller and lighter it may be better than some others as an e-reader.