Sony trots out its new Xperia Z4 Android tablet in Barcelona

BARCELONA, Spain — Sony may be giving up on phones, but it released an impressive 10-inch tablet in the Xperia Z4 here at Mobile World Congress.

The Z4 is the follow-up to the popular Z2 tablet.

Sony says the Z4 is the world’s lightest and thinnest 10-inch tablet. The Wi-Fi version of the tablet weighs just 389 grams, while the LTE version weights 393 grams.

Both versions are 6.1 millimeters thick.

The Z4 runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 octa-core 64-bit processor and runs Android Lollipop.

The device has a 2K display, and a battery Sony says will power up to 17 hours of playback.

“Building on the success of its predecessor, we wanted to take all of the qualities that consumers loved most in Xperia Z2 Tablet and enhance them for Z4 Tablet,” Sony Mobile sales VP Dennis van Schie said.

Sony said it concentrated on the audio quality in the device, adding special audio processing technology and digital noise canceling.

The Z4 sports an 8-megapixel main camera, with a 5.1-megapixel wide-angle front camera for selfies and video calls.

The Xperia Z4 tablet will launch globally, in 4G LTE and Wi-Fi versions, in June 2015. Pricing information was not given.

For the full specifications of Xperia Z4 Tablet, click here.