<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""></span></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>I find that Sony's user interface to be fast. On older models the TimeScape UI was annoying, and installing a third party launcer solves this (ADW Launcher worked well for me).<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As far as vendor firmware goes, sony's was the least intrusive. I could have lived with it, honestly, except I chose that device specifically because it was well supported by Cyanogenmod and had LTE. I ended up trading it for a Nexus 4 (and lost LTE).<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I did consider the Xperia Tablet Z, but could never justify the price ($599 plus taxes for 32GB model when it came out ~ 1.5 years ago). Now, it is not even at Futureshop or BestBuy for some odd reason, and on Amazon.ca, it starts at over $750 ...<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I paid much, much less for it at Best Buy than that. Must have been toward the end of the product cycle.<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Hmmm. If they obsoleted it, then they did not announce a replacement tablet yet. Odd .. Also odder is the higher than MSRP price on <a href="http://amazon.ca" target="_blank">amazon.ca</a> for it ...<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They released a Tablet Z2 a few months ago, and have announced a Z3 compact (though no Z3 full-size yet). To be honest, it's all spec-chasing at this point. I don't see any reason to upgrade from the Z to the Z2, and there's not really a need for a Z3. But nobody's going to buy a two-year old tablet, so they've got to keep bumping the bullet points on the box...<br></div><div><br><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_z2_tablet_wi_fi-6161.php">http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_z2_tablet_wi_fi-6161.php</a><br><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Chris Irwin<br><<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>></div>
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