Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact vs Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook Features, Specs, Display, Hardware and Latest News: A Comprehensive Review and Comparison

By Aishwarya Oct 30, 2014 09:29 AM EDT

Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact vs Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook Features, Price, Specs, Display, Hardware and Latest News: A Comprehensive Review and Comparison

The brand association between the mighty Samsung and Barnes & Nobles has resulted in the release of Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook. The 10.1-inch tablet might find the competitive market very difficult to survive as tablets like Nexus 9, Sony Xperia Z3 Compact Tablet are in the lines. Let's check a review of Galaxy Nook 4 and Sony Xperia Z3 Compact tablet.

The Xperia Z3 Compact Tablet comes with 8.0-inch display size with TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen display type. The screen resolution is impressive with 1200 x 1920 pixels and 283 pixels per inch. The color enhancement emulator X-Reality Engine is there along with shatterproof glass and oleo phobic coating protection. The other device Samsung Nook 4 comes with mediocre display quality that offers 1280 x 800 pixels resolution framed in a 10.1-inch screen.

The hardware configuration is crowned by the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact Tablet when it the competitor is Samsung Galaxy Nook 4. Z3 Compact Tablet is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset that supports Quad-Core 2.5GHz Krait 400 processor. The GPU emulator is decently configures with Adreno 330 chip. The Hardwar components of Galaxy Nook4 has not been confirmed by the sources but Android Central reports that the device might come with 1.2GHz Quad-Core processor that will be assisted with 1.5GB of RAM while Sony has slot for 3GB of RAM with 16GB internal storage and 128GB memory expand facility.

Z3 Compact Tablet has 8MP rear camera coupled with 2.2MP front camera sensor and bot the cameras are capable of recording 1080p videos at 30 frames per second. Whereas, the Galaxy Nook 4 deals with only 3.15MP rear camera sensor and 1.3MP front camera.

The Sony Z3 Compact Tablet is Android 4.4.2KitKat operating system based whether Galaxy Nook 4 has custom-made Android skin named as Nook UI. The charging price for the Galaxy Nook 4 revolves around $300 with the access worth $200 apps, books store, magazines, TV shows free offerings. Sony Xperia Z3 Compact Tablet will cost $500 pre order price.