[2] Its first tablet computer however was the Airboard, which was released in Japan in 2000 and the brainchild of Satoru Maeda.

[5] On 15 June 2011, Sony released the first in a series of five videos titled "Two Will", promoting and featuring the Tablets in an elaborately designed Rube Goldberg Machine.

[6] The episodes are entitled: The models originally ran Google's operating system Android 3.1 Honeycomb.

In landscape orientation, the unit along the top is about three times thicker than along the bottom, forming a mild slant.

[10] In early reviews in late 2011, the units compared favorably to similar high-end tablets.