Sony is going all out with the bigger brother to the Xperia Z, offering a host of top end specs to convince iPad- and Nexus-lovers to look again.The Sony Xperia Tablet Z will be available in two flavours: Wi-Fi only (£399, around $600 / AUS$590) and an LTE version too (£499, around $760/AUS $735), which puts it squarely against the iPad in terms of price, although it packs up to 32GB of onboard storage plus a nifty extra in terms of a microSD slot.Best tablet PCs on the market todayThat latter spec makes us enjoy the tablet all the more â€" showing up the likes of the Google Nexus 10, which admittedly has a higher resolution screen. That's mitigated slightly by the fact the Sony Xperia Tablet Z offers its Bravia Engine 2 to add to that Reality Display â€" both combined give a really rich and colourful screen, without feeling over saturated.So â€" the competition at the 10.1-inch space is fierce (give or take an inch, of course), can the Xperia Tablet Z really stack up? Sony isn't known for making the greatest Android tablets, but the Z really shows a step forward. When first viewed, you'd be forgiven for thinking the design team behind it was simply incredibly lazy; this tablet looks like a stretched version of the (admittedly excellent) Sony Xperia Z.But as soon as you pick it up you realise that while it is part of the same family, it's a completely different beast. Light at 495g and super slim at sub-7mm, it's a very comfortable tablet to hold for an extended
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