Introduction
Tablets are changing. Where once Android tablets could be separated into 7-inch and 10-inch varieties, the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is part of a relatively new tab type.
As body and screen technologies have improved, we've started seeing ultra-slim 8-inch tablets like this one appear, offering fantastic portability matched with a display that is still a good deal larger than the biggest phones.
Of course, Apple has offered something like this for ages: the iPad mini.
With the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact selling at £329 (US$598, about AU$600) the smaller Apple tablet offers a pretty attractive alternative - the still-current iPad mini 2 is available for just £239 (US$300, about AU$436). The competition is really being squeezed this year, and Sony's Android rivals are strong too.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 gets you a better screen and more features for the same price. On very close inspection, the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact reads a bit like a 2013 tablet rather than a 2014 one.
However, it has a few aces in its hand: you can't argue with its impressively slim and light frame and the 4G version can be used as a phone. Portability is key with this tablet.
Key features
The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact relies fairly heavily on its design, because some core features are not quite on-par with the best tablets out there. Most important of the lot is screen resolution.
You get a 1200p screen here, which offers far fewer pixels than you get with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4, iPad mini 2 or mini 3. The display is the most important part of any tablet and the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact's is fairly good, but it is beaten by several others.
Other areas fare better. The Snapdragon 801 CPU used here has been usurped by the Snapdragon 805, but with fairly modest improvements in the upgrade it's not a great loss.
The 8MP camera benefits from the usual Sony glut of software extras. However, without a flash or the abilities of the top Xperia phones, it's probably not a reason to pick this tablet over another.
What really matters here are the dimensions, the weight and the waterproofing: the basics of the outer hardware. It's the only area where the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact really sets itself apart from the competition.
For some, these are minor concerns. But if being able to watch How I Met Your Mother re-runs in the bath or being able to use the tablet's GPS on a hike while it's pouring with rain are priorities, the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact could be the perfect choice.
Design
Phone makers often care a bit too much about making their devices slim, but tablets like the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact can often seriously benefit from being a lot lighter and thinner than the rest. They take up less space in your bag, and are much more comfortable to use in a single hand than chunkier tabs.
Size and weight are key. I found the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact narrow enough to hold in one hand, and easily light enough to do so for a while without ending up with aching arms.
Looking at the dimensions, it's not hard to see why. The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact weighs just 270g and the widescreen-aspect 16:10 display lets the tablet stay a good deal narrower than an iPad mini 3 — 124mm to the iPad's 134.7mm.
Like several of the Sony Xperia phones, the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is water resistant too. To this end it uses rubber seals on all its ports, bar the headphone jack, which is specially treated and so doesn't need seals.
There are two of these flaps. The one that covers the microUSB charge socket is on the bottom, while a larger one that keeps the microSD and nano SIM (in the mobile internet version) slots safe is on the left side. I'd love the waterproofing even more if, like the Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini, it didn't need a flap for the charging socket.
After all, heavy users will need to unseal and reseal it every other day or so, which will inevitably lead to wear.
The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is certified to the IP65 and IP68 standards, meaning it's impervious to dust and can be dunked in water at depths of up to 1.5m for 30 minutes. As waterproof as you probably need, in other words.
The tablet also shares its design style with other high-end Xperia devices. Just like the Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet, its back is plastic and it has clear, defined sides rather than trying to sweep the sides and rear into one coherent curve.
It's not quite as flash-feeling as an aluminium iPad mini 3, but feels better than the new Nexus 9, despite being made of plastic. For a tablet that's 6.4mm thick, the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is commendably rigid.
This is not a 100% plastic production, though. There are little metal bits on each corner, presumably part of an internal structure designed to avoid catastrophic damage should the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact be dropped. I didn't try this. Sorry.
There is one element I'm not entirely sold on. Sony has plonked a dock port on the left side and volume/power controls right in the middle of the right. This is typical of the Xperia-staple Omnibalance design, but it doesn't do the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact any ergonomic favours.
When holding the tablet in portrait aspect, your hand naturally rests over these bits, and it just doesn't feel as great as a smooth surface would. Design consistency is good, but not when it works to the detriment of the product's use. It's almost as if your hand is an inconvenience to the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact.
Despite this, I still find the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact one of the most convenient 8-inch tablets, if not the most. You can't win 'em all.
While the back of the tablet is firmly locked in place, the microSD card slot gives you flexibility that I value over being able to switch out the battery. You get 16GB storage fresh out of the box, but that's not really enough if you want real video jukebox-style flexibility: but you're just a microSD card away from that.
Screen
The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact has an 8-inch screen, large enough to offer a much better video and gaming experience than something like the Nexus 7. It's a good size, and this sort of 7.9-8.4 inch category is becoming hugely popular, brought into the mainstream by dropping prices and new tech allowing tablets to get thinner and lighter.
This is a mostly-satisfying screen, with the vivid colour and reasonably good contrast we've come to expect from Sony's higher-end LCD devices. Those who like a neutral-toned screen may find the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact a bit oversaturated, but the effect is minor. I think the colour saturation and tone are well-judged given that most people like vivid colour, much like people tend to prefer extra bass in their headphones.
There are issues though. Resolution does not match up to most rivals at the price. Both the iPad mini 2/3 and Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 offer many more pixels than the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact's 1,920 x 1,200 resolution display.
That's the same resolution used by the Nexus 7, a now-aged 7-inch tablet. If you haven't yet experienced an ultra-high dpi tablet screen I think you'll probably be satisfied, but text in particular looks significantly softer than it does on the Samsung and Apple tablets.
This isn't the highest-grade LCD screen in other respects either. At an angle, the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact's backlight leakage becomes a little obvious. We saw this sort of viewing angle limitation in the first Sony Xperia Z phone, and it's a shame to see a similar (but less severe) effect here. However, there's none of the ugly contrast shift that truly basic LCD screens suffer from.
General contrast and black level are also worse than the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4, which uses a Super AMOLED screen. All OLED screens offer better black level than all LCD screens (bar completely botched OLEDs) and the Samsung is the clear leader of the pack at this point.
As a retort, the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet supplies quite excellent top brightness, making even its pretty reflective display quite easy to use outdoors.
You also get some customisation options over how the screen looks. To start, you can fiddle with the white balance using RGB sliders. This offers loads of tweakability, but I think the awkwardness of this makes it a bit less useful than a simpler warm/cool colour temperature slider used by other manufacturers, such as Nokia.
There are also image enhancement options. X-Reality aims to increase contrast and colour saturation in images to give them more pop while the Super-Vivid mode jacks up saturation throughout. I preferred the display with all the extras turned off, but this may be a result of spending years analysing displays looking for things to complain about.
Those less picky may love the jazzier modes, and even the super-vivid setting is less offensive than the higher-saturation screen modes on offer in the OLED Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4.
The only lingering question: do you really want a widescreen display rather than a 4:3 one like the iPad? I find the 4:3 style a natural fit for larger tablets, and next to an iPad mini the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact can seem a bit overly long.
However, with a 4:3 8-inch screen it wouldn't be as easy to handle one-handed, so it's a personal choice rather than a one-sided victory for iPad-shape screens.
Interface, performance and battery life
The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact uses Android 4.4.2 with a Sony custom interface, of the same style found in its phones. It's one of the prettier, faster custom interfaces, though doesn't quite have the friendly lifestyle vibe Google has coaxed out of standard Android 5.0, the very latest version of the software.
At first, it clearly seems to want to appear a bit more sophisticated than the competition. It uses a swish-looking Xperia live wallpaper, whose swooshy styling is seen across loads of Sony products from its TVs to the PlayStation line. It's colourful and good-looking, but ultimately perhaps a little serious for some people.
However, all that can dissipate if you want it to. The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact's interface embraces the style of clean simplification that makes the own-brand Google Now interface for Android 4.4 so pleasant to use. There are no extraneous sections or dividers in any of the main interface bits.
The apps menu features simply app icons, no extras, and the homescreens are yours to play with aside from the Google Search bar and the icon dock. Pick the right wallpaper and you can largely determine the character of the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact yourself.
Some Sony-Specific elements remain, though. For example, if you swipe left-to-right on the apps page, it brings up a menu from which you delete and arrange your apps. This style is very much Sony-specific, but again helps to keep the interface extremely clean and simple: the menu is hidden until you want it.
Its approach to the notifications menu and the settings toggles on offer within it is similarly pared-back. This part is perhaps a bit more contentious, though. With a tablet-size display, Sony arguably has enough space to jam a brightness slider and a few features toggles into the standard notifications menu. But instead these controls are relegated to a secondary tab in the menu, and you still have to bring up another control to a change brightness.
I'm talking about an inconvenience of a couple of seconds, but those used to devices with more direct feature toggles may find it an annoyance.
Actual performance is commendable, though. Sony's interface is generally a bit snappier than arch rival Samsung's TouchWiz, with often brings a little lag with it. Rather funnily, I actually found the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact to be faster than the Nexus 9 in use, with very little lag.
Sony seems to have been keen on achieving this sort of performance, looking at the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact's specs. The 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 is nothing out of the ordinary: a high-end processor but one that is now a step behind the top Qualcomm chips. However 3GB of RAM is fairly generous, and is a good insurance policy against general stuttering and interface lag. It seems to have worked, too.
In the Geekbench 3 test, the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact comes out with 2730 points, a good result and more-or-less just what I'd expect from a 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 device.
Do the gaming results stack up? Absolutely. With a 1080p screen, the strain on the CPU/GPU shouldn't be any greater than it is in the Sony Xperia Z3 phone. Top-end games like Dead Trigger 2 and Asphalt 8 work without issues.
However, the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact does get a little warm under even mild strain, something I've noticed in a number of the slim Xperia phones and tablets. It never reached worrying temperatures, though.
Battery life
The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact has a 4500mAh battery. That's not huge when you consider the significantly smaller Nexus 7 has a 3,950mAh unit, and doesn't exactly provide amazing battery life with that.
Sony talks pretty big about the Xperia XZ3 Tablet Compact's abilities, though. It says the tablet can last for 15 hours of video of a charge, which is well in excess of what most tablets manage.
However, with our standard 720p MP4 video test the battery drained by 30%, suggesting the tablets would only last for five hours off a charge. That's very poor, but take into account that this is at top brightness, and the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact's backlight goes very bright indeed.
To get a more real-world indication of stamina I set the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact to play the same MP4 video on loop, but with the brightness set to a much more ordinary 50%. Like this, the tablet lasts for a much more remarkable 15 hours 15 minutes. I was starting to think Sony was telling porkies about this thing's stamina. It isn't.
Sony clearly seems to have put an awful lot of work into making these screens energy efficient at normal brightness levels, even if they chomp through power when jacked-up.
The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact also offers several battery-saving modes intended to further extend stamina. These are seen more often in phones than tablets, where they're generally more useful, but having them on-board is particularly handy, especially if you're going to pick up the 3G/4G version.
Stamina mode lets you restrict the apps that can perform processes while the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is in standby, can turn off all data when the tablet is sleeping and even restrict CPU performance. You can pick and choose which elements are turned on, giving you a degree of customisation over how stamina works.
Low-battery mode is similar, but designed to kick in only when the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact reaches a certain battery level. Again, it restricts things like background processes, performance, and screen brightness too.
Location-based Wi-Fi is the last major power mode, and it automatically switches the Wi-Fi signal on and off depending on whether you're within range of a known Wi-Fi network. If you're going to use the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact predominantly while at home it won't be of much use, but will increase longevity if you're going to take the tablet with you wherever you go.
Camera
With an 8MP rear camera, the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact matches most higher-end tablets on camera resolution. It also brings a good deal of the fun experience we're after in camera setups that can't really be expected to match the quality of a top phone or dedicated camera.
Shooting is fast and pretty reliable, with good autofocus performance, solid shot-to-shot speeds and very little shutter lag. It's the sort of immediacy that takes the frustration out of photography.
The size of the Z3 Tablet Compact is a benefit here too. Tablets can often feel awkward or downright embarrassing to take photos with unless you're a shameless tourist, but being this small and light shaves off some of that effect.
The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact uses a camera app similar to the Sony Xperia phone line-up. As standard, it shoots using a superior auto mode designed to take care of everything apart from the pointing 'n' shoot element. I tend to switch over to another mode in phones like the Sony Xperia Z3, but in a device like this that I would generally only use for emergencies, it seems the perfect fit.
If you want to get a bit deeper with your tablet photography, there are plenty of other modes too. There's the manual mode, which just gives you that little extra bit of control over, for example, whether to shoot using HDR or not, plus a massive collection of creative and more fun modes.
Photo collages, augmented reality, more filters than most people will ever need: the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact camera app is certainly complete. You can also download more modes directly from within the app, filling until it's bursting at the seams if you wish.
This is a tablet that's particularly adept at amusing the kids, with positively loads of fun little gimmicks available.
But how is actual photo quality? It's fair, but not close to matching Sony's best phones.
As said earlier, focus is fairly reliable, and a reasonably good HDR mode is good at combating scenes with trickier lighting. However, contrast is a little on the low side at times and at pixel level photos look clearly processed, lacking the fine detailing of a more adept mobile camera.
As with lower-end Xperia phones like the Xperia M2 and Xperia E3, the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact also struggles a bit with recreating realistic-looking red tones. They have a somewhat cartoony, incongruous appearance at times.
You're probably not going to want to frame any of these shots. However, I'm fairly happy with the low-light performance of the camera, which is particularly important as it has no flash to lean on.
It has a smart approach to low-light metering and processing, successfully brightening-up darker scenes so that what's in them is a good deal clearer. Many lower-end mobile cameras simply leave dark scenes dark. These shots don't hold up to close scrutiny, looking clearly processed and lacking in detail, but it's far better than the alternative: an indistinct black mush.
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Media and the essentials
An 8-inch tablet is the perfect solution for watching media on-the-go if you have a bag with you. Once-common 10-plus-inch Android tablets seem to be on the wane in favour of these large but still highly portable devices.
The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact ticks just about all the boxes required of a great portable media player. It offers a good-quality, fairly high-res screen (probably ever-so-slightly higher-res than your Full HD TV), expandable memory and is very portable indeed.
Sony also provides some appy extras to help you playback your own downloaded videos. With many Android tablets you get nothing more than Google Play Movies, which at this point doesn't let you play your own locally-stored, non-Google-Play files at all.
Sony's Movies app lets you play a good range of codecs, including downloader favourites like DivX. You'll probably need to get a third-party app if you have some more esoteric file types, but the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact's preinstalled Movies app is much better-looking than any of those less high-end alternatives.
It shows your files as chunky image thumbnails with fairly little space for longer titles, so it's not terribly appropriate for those with gargantuan libraries jammed into 64GB memory cards. But Android always has the apps to provide for just about whatever you need on that front.
The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact offers a similar interface for music, although as a fairly large device I think phones are far better portable music players.
The darker side to Sony's media app generosity is that it really wants you spend some cash on its digital services, including Video Unlimited and Music Unlimited, although this is graciously kept in a separate apps for the most part.
You can buy videos and music through pre-installed apps, while Sony also offers a music-streaming service that's comparable with Spotify. Video Unlimited is a bit more conventional, though. You rent and buy films/TV, from 99p — although the low-price selection is generally pretty questionable.
In an effort to make watching films better on the tablet, the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact offers stereo speakers. You can see their slit-like outlets right at the top and bottom of the frame when the thing is held upright.
The stereo effect this provides is great when you're watching a film or playing a game with the tablet held in front of your face, but the actual sound quality is nothing to get too excited about. While top volume is decent for a tablet this thin, it doesn't have the warmth or power to offer the smooth ride that actually makes you want to listen to the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact daily. At top volume you can hear the tiny drivers straining.
You can feel the back vibrating at high volume too, which feels a little odd. I'll grant, though, that this seems to be one of the few sacrifices made to get the tablet this thin.
It does miss out on one media feature that I would like to see in a tablet of this price, though: an IR transmitter. These may hold no attraction for some people, but are a neat way to bring your entertainment tech together. An IR transmitter lets a phone or tablet function as a universal remote control, mimicking the commands of your home entertainment remotes.
It's hardly essential, but is offered by the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 and even the much cheaper (but otherwise much worse) LG G Pad 7.0.
The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact fires back with Remote Play support. This is a PS4 feature that lets you play console games on your tablet by streaming them over a Wi-Fi connection. Remote Play only works with a very limited number of Android devices, so being on the list is a major plus for gamers.
An obvious use for this might be playing Call of Duty in bed on a Sunday morning while the PS4 purrs away down in the lounge. The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact will hook up with a DualShock 4 controller, and Sony offers a tablet/phone mount to connect the two called the GCM10.
I haven't had the chance to use it, it's not widely available yet and probably won't be cheap when it is, but we've seen Sony promo shots suggesting it'll work well with the Z3 Tablet Compact.
The essentials
One of the most important things to note about the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is that is comes in two varieties. One only has Wi-Fi, while the other offers 4G and can essentially be used as a gigantic phone if you wish.
I tried taking a few calls on the device, and while it feels bizarre, it does work. However, any calls you make will be blasted out speakerphone-style as there's no separate earpiece speaker. It may have call capabilities but it's clearly not really meant to be used as a phone.
What about other basics? The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact has the lot, plus plenty of lower-key extras.
Wi-Fi support goes all the way up to the ac standard, getting you better performance if you have an ac compatible router to match. If you don't, no worry, it'll support your standard too.
The Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact also has GPS, letting you use the tablet as an in-car GPS or a digital guidebook while you're off on holiday. It even comes with a special Xperia version of the Garmin Navigon app preinstalled, giving you free access to one territory you pick on first loading it up.
It has an FM radio too, which is often left out of mobile devices. You still need to plug in some headphones, though, as they work as antenna, just like a phone's FM radio.
For those wanting to use the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact as a video jukebox, the tablet has what you need. As well as offering inbuilt wireless video 'throwing' to compatible Sony TVs, the microUSB port on the bottom supports MHL.
This lets you output the tablet's video feed to a TV using the right cable. Naturally, you don't get one of these in the box as it's still considered a pretty niche attraction, but you can grab one online very easily.
NFC is supported too. There's handily a little NFC logo on the back of the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact. It spoils the look a tiny bit, but is quite necessary as NFC's short range means you need to be quite precise about where you put the sensor.
For those who haven't used NFC yet, it's commonly seen in wireless audio devices like docks and headphones, as well as other smart goodies. It lets you connect things up more quickly, without having to faff about quite so much in settings menus.
You can also use NFC for wireless payments on the high street, but this is still relatively early stages of development, both in terms of roll-out and its becoming a 'social norm'.
The rather the more ordinary task of web browsing is no issue for the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact. You get the Chrome browser preinstalled, and the simple, classy Sony keyboard is a doddle to use. It also supports gesture typing as standard.
Browsing is one of the areas where you might notice the resolution difference between the 1200p Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact and the 2,560 x 1600 pixel Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4, with tiny text not looking quite as pristine. However, I think this is only something you'll likely notice if someone points it out. So… sorry about that.
Comparison
iPad mini 2 and 3
The iPad mini 3 has proved to be one of this year's big disappointments, mostly because it's hardly any different to the iPad mini 2 bar a fingerprint scanner. However, the iPad mini 2 is a very attractive alternative at this point. It's still sold by Apple and just about everywhere else, and costs just £239 ($299, AU$369) for the 16GB edition.
That's comfortably less than the Xperia Z2 Tablet Compact. The Sony has a more vivid screen, but the iPad is a lot sharper, and is otherwise a good replacement, offering a better games library, if not the Sony's Remote Play function.
With expandable memory the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact makes a better portable movie player, but it's hard not to conclude that the iPad mini 2 offers better value for money.
- Read our iPad mini 2 review
- Read our iPad mini 3 review
Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9
The Amazon rival has comparable specs in a number of fields, but the key thing to note is that it does not run 'normal' Android but a version of Fire OS, which is a good deal more restrictive.
You don't get access to any of the standard Google suite apps, instead you're left to rely on either Amazon or third-party alternatives. Some people love them, but having the choice offered by normal Android is preferable.
The Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 seemed pretty thin and light when it arrived last year, but nowadays it seems relatively chunky. It weighs 100g more: nowhere near as portable. Next to the iPad, the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact and Samsung Tab S, it's quite thick and heavy.
The Kindle Fire HDX's time should be up at £329, but Amazon is yet to give the tablet a much-needed price-drop.
- Read our Amazon Kindle Fire HDX review
Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4
Perhaps the most alluring Android that might convince you away from the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4. It gets you far superior resolution and a much better screen panel.
You also get some extra features, such as an IR blaster, which lets the tablet double-up as a universal remote. For most it represents a slightly better deal than the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact. However, it doesn't offer water resistance.
- Read our Samsung Galaxy Tab S review
Xperia Z2 Tablet
What about the last Sony tablet? The Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet hasn't aged badly thanks to the relatively slow progress in Qualcomm Snapdragon processors and a design that, at the time, set a new standard. It was the original King of slim.
Its 10.1-inch widescreen display has become a bit old hat now, and the 1200p resolution seems a little low now that so many tablets have been bumped up to higher resolutions. Plus, despite being very thin and light, it's nowhere near as handy as the Z3 Tablet Compact.
- Read our full Xperia Z2 Tablet review
Verdict
The iPad mini has made tablets around the 8-inch form factor cool, and Sony's first stab at this middle market is a pretty good one.
It's not going to set the world alight, but for a powerful Android slate it offers a good array of features, although the price is on the steep side.
We liked
Battery life when playing video at normal brightness levels is fantastic, making it perfect for making any long-haul flights more bearable.
The super-slim, super-light frame makes the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact a joy to use, especially during those crowded work commutes.
Waterproofing gives you confidence you're not going to have any issues in the rain. Or the bath, if that's your bag.
We disliked
Until recently we'd have been happy with a 1200p screen but there are several tablets out there that offer greater sharpness.
Value isn't top-notch when the second-teir iPad mini is so much cheaper, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 offers extra features at the same price.
If you don't care about waterproofing, having to deal with the microUSB flap every other day becomes a pain.
Verdict
If you want the most tablet hardware you can get for the least amount of cash, you may find the equation a little off in the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact. The screen resolution is lower than the top contenders, and this shows up when web browsing and in the interface.
However, it's not really a concern for watching video or playing games, where the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact excels.
Add in the thin, light body and you have a great tablet for long trips and boring work commutes.
First reviewed: November 2014
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