Sony halts sales of new "splash-proof" Xperia tablet - "the device may not be water resistant as adv
10 replies, posted
[img]http://i.imgur.com/hJ7cP.png[/img]
"The Xperia tablet is an Android-powered device."
[quote]Sony has halted sales of Xperia, its new tablet computer, after discovering that the device may not be water resistant as advertised.
The Xperia tablet was unveiled in August 2012 in Berlin and has been marketed as a "splash-proof" tablet.
It has been on sale for just under a month and about 100,000 have been shipped, Sony said.
The company says it will repair any damaged devices and a spokesperson said a manufacturing flaw was to blame.
There is no date at the moment for sales to recommence, Sony spokeswoman Noriko Shoji told Reuters news agency.
"You have to give them credit for saying, 'We realise some aren't as water resistant as we want them to be so we'll happily fix or replace them'," said Stuart Miles, editor of gadget review site Pocket-Lint.
"But at the same time it is embarrassing that you create a tablet that's supposed to be usable in tough environments, and it's not."
The splash-proof quality is particularly important in the Japanese market, he added.
"Most people don't worry about waterproofing. But far more Japanese companies create water resistant devices - more so than in the UK or the US. It's obviously a big selling point for them - not many tablets promote waterproofing."[/quote]
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19845239]SOURCE[/url]
I'm not happy until I can browse the web in the shower.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;37923097]I'm not happy until I can browse the web in the shower.[/QUOTE]
Porn in the shower.
Now that'd be convenient.
nice that they re-called it instead of saying that it's how it's supposed to be
[QUOTE=Ezhik;37923503]nice that they re-called it instead of saying that it's how it's supposed to be[/QUOTE]
[i]"No! You're just showering wrong!"[/i]
How the hell did they not figure out it was not as water proof as they told it to be? Do they know what testing is for?
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;37923227]Porn in the shower.
Now that'd be convenient.[/QUOTE]
But then I'd have to stand up while I jerk off
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;37923227]Porn in the shower.
Now that'd be convenient.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I wouldn't have to imagine stuff while I beat off daily in the shower
[QUOTE=Ezhik;37923503]nice that they re-called it instead of saying that it's how it's supposed to be[/QUOTE]
your pouring water on it wrong
A water proof tablet would actually be nice to have
