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The Sony Xperia Z is without a doubt the best phone to come out of the company's R&D labs in years, boasting powerful tech, an eye-catching screen and a svelte and surprisingly resilient chassis. The Japanese electronics giant clearly knows this, as it has used the Xperia Z as the blueprint for its next stab at cracking the tricky - yet profitable - tablet market. The result is a device which is attractive to behold, packs plenty of horsepower and feels like a genuine challenger to the incumbent Apple iPad.The Xperia Tablet Z really does feel like an Xperia Z phone which has been stretched at each corner. The edges of the device look identical to those on its smaller smartphone sibling, although the glass back has been replaced by a matte-finish surface this time around. Like the Xperia Z, this slate is dust and waterproof, lending it a toughness belied by its impossibly slender frame.
Samsung and Apple have long been entrenched in a battle to see who can produce the thinnest devices, so it's rather surprising to see Sony swoop in and beat them both. The Xperia Tablet Z has a thickness of just 6.9mm - quite a reduction on the iPad 4's 9.4mm. It's instantly noticeable too; as soon as you pick up the device, you can't help but appreciate its dimensions. This has an obvious knock-on effect on the overall weight of the Tablet Z, which is just 495g - the iPad 4 tips the scales at 662g.
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