After facing her Nexus 9 and the Galaxy Tab S 8.4, we finished the round of comparative between the newa high-end compact tablet with Windows 10 who presented us HP last week and his rivals in Android, tablets with similar sizes and Technical specifications also of the highest level, with the Z3 Xperia Tablet Compact. The tablet of Sony It is, in fact, the most similar of the three by size, although the price difference, as we will see, is still as marked as in the other cases. Can it be worth paying to get the HP ProTablet 608? Of course, here also our preferences and needs in terms of operating systems will play a fundamental role in the decision, but it also does not hurt to have a notion of where each of them is in terms of hardware.
Integrated
If we compare it with the Z3 Xperia Tablet Compact, a tablet that is particularly elongated, the more square format of the screen HP ProTablet 608 is more prominent than ever. There is also a quite marked difference in lines, much smoother in the tablet of HP and straighter in that of Sony, although what stands out the most in this section (as always when we find a device of the Xperia Z range) is that it has a very special characteristic: the resistance to water and dust.
Dimensions
The two tablets have a screen of the same size and that is noticeable in the devices, which are of a very similar volume, although it is true, as we said in the previous section that the difference in proportions is quite appreciated (20,8x13,7 inch against 21,34x12,36 inch). The most striking differences, in any case, are those found when comparing the thickness (8,35 mm against 6,4 mm) and weight (420 grams against 270 grams), since that of Sony it is an extremely thin and light tablet.
Screen
There are quite a few differences between the screens of these two tablets even though they are the same size (8 inches): First of all, we have a higher resolution in the HP ProTablet 608 (2048 x 1536 against 1920 x 1200), as well as a higher pixel density (PPI 320 against 283 PPI); secondly, we have the different aspect ratios, which in the tablet of HP is 4:3 (optimized for reading) and in that of Sony de 16:9 (optimized for video playback).
Performance
This is the section in which the HP ProTablet 608, but as we always remember when faced with tablets Android, it must be taken into account that the operating system requirements of these are also lower: the tablet of HP mounts a Intel processor quad-core with a maximum frequency of 2,6 GHz and also has 4 GB RAM memory, while the memory chip Z3 Xperia Tablet Compact is a Snapdragon 801 quad core to 2,5 GHz and its RAM memory is 3 GB.
Storage capacity
The storage capacity of the HP ProTablet 608 is also much superior: we can buy it with up to 128 GB internal memory, compared to 16 GB with which the Z3 Xperia Tablet Compact. Both offer us, yes, the possibility of expanding your memory externally thanks to the fact that they have a card slot micro-SD.
Cameras
We could say that in the cameras section we find a technical draw since the figures are very similar for the two tablets and the advantage of the Z3 Xperia Tablet Compact is really minimal for both the main camera (8 MP against 8,1 MP) as for the frontal (2 MP against 2,2 MP).
Autonomy
Although of the HP ProTablet 608 At the moment we only have the autonomy estimates provided by HP, the truth is that it is difficult to imagine that we could find that independent tests of autonomy could place it above the Z3 Xperia Tablet Compact, which has obtained excellent results in benchmarks: in fact, HP's forecasts are lower than the real data of the tablet of Sony (8 hours in front of almost 10 hours).
Price
This is the point at which the tablet Sony recovers the ground that may have been lost in other sections since, although we are awaiting a confirmation of the price of the HP ProTablet 608 in Europe, we can take for granted that it will not fall, but in any case the opposite, of the U.S. dollar 479 which has been announced to cost in the United States, while the Z3 Xperia Tablet Compact sold for less than $350 already in some distributors.