Sony Tablet S Review: The Media Enthusiast's Dream Tablet

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I am wondering if it would be worth testing the inactive standby time for tablets when inactive. I have a ipad2 galaxy tab10 and a acer iconia, and in my subjective experience the battery life of the ipad2 is by far superior to the others. After reading this review it is probably because I only use them maybe 10-20 minutes every 2 or 3 days, and somehow it seems the Iconia and galaxy tab are always empty when I want to use them. It seems the android devices are a lot more active when in standby (which is a negative for me)
I have a similar experience with my iphone 3GS vs HTC Desire HD, or Blackberry 9900 vs Blackberry 9700.
 
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I rather buy the Toshiba Thrive... has everything that the Sony has except better
 
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Sorry if this is a nub question but im unsure how to do this step im unsure how to Add 0x54c to the file windows xp


"Add 0x54c into the .android/adb_usb.ini file in the Home directory by using following command from the shell prompt."

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In summary Sony unlimited sucks, I had it for a month using my PS3 and I'm ready to cancel it, let me list my pros and cons.

CONS:
1 Tons of music but mostly unknown crap that strangely keeps getting randomly queued over well known artists over and over. Cover bands that play hits? really ? then later you can't find the real songs.

2 It shows you a song but it skips over and it won't let you play it, why show it to you then?

3 The "Like" feature that allegedly adds a song to your favorites list works on 1 out of 10 songs, no warning or anything it just doesn't do it, same with adding to your album or playlist.

4 The "Unlike" doesn't work, I unlike a song and it plays 3 songs later and again and again.

5 Takes forever to start, and once in a while it goes silent, when I go to see what's going on is stuck on some song and it shows is playing but just sits there and have to manually advance to the next song.

6 If you do find an album you like you'll find out that some songs play and others will not, even if you select them, and so it happens they are the best songs of that album. Seems they are pushing on you all the music that they couldn't sell otherwise.

7 If you turn off the PS3 while music unlimited is on, it crashes your PS3 and next time you start it you have to wait for the stupid scan like when you cut the power. Sent tons of "error reports" keeps happening.

8 Barely any settings at all, God I hate that elevator music when it starts and the pinkish background.

9 Plays the top 100 or something popular songs automatically in a few minutes if you don't pick anything when it starts, maybe 2 minutes after, and of course is that Beaver @#$$ every time so I have to run to stop it because I feel blood dripping from my ears.

10 If you manage to create a playlist or add to your favorites, there is no random feature, so you end up memorizing what songs comes next.

11 I had it for a month and my favorites list is probably less that 40 songs, even though I hit the like button on probably 1000 songs or more. Really annoying to find out later that they weren't added to your favorites.

12 Edited songs all over, hard to see in the title where it says unedited or clean version, until you play it and realize is not the version for grown ups, a setting for edited or unedited content would be nice.

PROS

1 Sounds quality is amazing, I ripped cds at the highest quality before and still not as good quality. I thought I had a crappy sound system until I played a song in music unlimited, the bass is crazy, that I will miss when I cancel it.

2 I never heard a song skip, Pandora does it all the time in PS3 and on the PC sometimes.

3 Premium has a lot of channels already added like 80's, 90's, night, rock, rap, pop, etc, makes it easy to avoid what you don't like.

4 No advertisements.

5 Used it on my pc, iphone and ps3, so I could play my favorites anywhere where there is an internet connection, it does notice if you are using it on more than one device but you can go to your friends ps3 sign in to ps3 network and sign in to music unlimited no problem or on any computer.

6 They have remastered albums of oldies, and they do sound much better.

7 Easy to sign up and easy to cancel, just uncheck the auto renewal check box in account settings.











 
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Strange, ArkMC works for me fine. I can control my Sony TV, and share HD video from Tablet and from YouTube.
 
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I don't know if I have the same tablet S (looks the same) but my tablet supports USB file transfer to-and-from given i have a mini-usb to standard usb cable (which i had from an old nokia)...works fine for me, even externals (albeit the need for the extra power). And the guy that said there isn't an SD slot..there is one, but its a standard size...
It was actually a gift to my sister, a sony fanatic. I personally have used it for a while, and though it may seem plasticy at times it is more ergonomically/design friendly than any other tablet i've used before. There are some nifty features like the IR feature ppl have mentioned, but i also enjoy the PSX games preloaded and the entertainment-focused feel of it. Not to mention the physical feel of it when carrying it feels like youre actually carrying something not a chunk of fragile metal and glass.

I'm overall pretty impressed by its overall usability, but the plastic feel and price is a little eh. but its easily obtainable on sale or online for better prices than quoted....so...yeah....
 
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