Sony's new tablet is sliced thinner than the iPad Mini

Sony Xperia Tablet Z. Maybe the thinnest 10-inch tablet yet.

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Sony's new tablet is really thin. How thin? Thinner than the already-very-svelte iPad Mini.

The 10.1-inch Xperia Tablet Z measures 6.9mm or about 0.27 inches. The uber-thin Mini is 7.2mm and 0.28 inches, by comparison.

Thinness is important in tablets because it translates to very light, easy-to-hold designs. And here Sony delivers too: it weighs in at 485 grams or just over one pound.

That also beats the competition: Apple's iPad 4 is 1.44 pounds.

The 10.1-inch Xperia sports a 1,920x1,200 "Reality Display." That's not quite the pixel density of the iPad 4's Retina display but it's pretty close. The Xperia is about 224 pixels per inch (PPI), while the iPad's 9.7-inch display is 264 PPI.

But, to be fair, both fall short of Google's Nexus 10 with a PPI of 300.

The Xperia Tablet Z specs:

• Display: 10.1-inch 1,920x1,200 display.


• Processor: quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon.


• Broadband: 4G/LTE (supported in Qualcomm silicon).


• Camera: 8-... [Read more]