User manual
Table Of Contents
- Purpose of this document
- Document history
- Sony Mobile Developer World
- Table of contents
- Product overview
- Technologies in detail
- Device-to-device communications (local)
- Messaging
- Positioning – location based services
- Provisioning (OMA CP)
- Multimedia (audio, image and video)
- Synchronisation (OMA DS, EAS, Google Sync™)
- Web browser
- Memory in Android™ devices
- 1. Dynamic Memory (also known as RAM) is used by applications that run when the device is turned on. The amount of Dynamic Memory influences how many applications and operating system services can run at the same time. The Android operating system au...
- 2. System Memory (also known as “System partition” or “/system”) is used for the Android OS and for most applications that are pre-loaded from the factory. This type of memory is normally locked, and can only be changed through a firmware upg...
- 3. Internal Storage is memory used as” working” memory. It can be compared to the C: drive on a PC or to the startup disk on a Mac.
- 4. SD Card (known as “/ext_card” from a programmer’s point of view, or by other names in other Android products) is the name for the removable SD memory card in all 2014 Sony Mobile products. As described above, this External Card memory is gen...
- Trademarks and acknowledgements

White paper | Xperia™ Z2 Tablet
15 February 2014
Multimedia (audio, image and video)
Audio Playback Decoder format Supported in file format
AAC (AAC-LC, AAC+, eAAC+,
AAC-ELD)
3GPP (.3gp, 3gpp), MP4 (.mp4,
.m4a), ADTS (.aac)
AMR-NB, AMR-WB 3GPP (.3gp, .3gpp), MP4 (.mp4,
.m4a), AMR (.amr, .awb)
FLAC FLAC (.flac), Matroska (.mka)
MIDI SMF (.mid), XMF (.xmf), Mobile
XMF (.mxmf), OTA (.ota), RTTTL
(.rtttl), RTX (.rtx), iMelody (imy)
MP3 MP3 (.mp3)
PCM WAV (.wav)
Vorbis OGG (.ogg), Matroska (.mkv)
WMA ASF (.wma)
Audio Recording Encoder format Supported in file format
AAC (AAC-LC, AAC+, AAC-ELD) 3GPP (.3gp, .3gpp), MP4 (.mp4,
.m4a)
AMR (AMR-NB, AMR-WB) 3GPP (.3gp, .3gpp), MP4 (.mp4,
.m4a), AMR (.amr)
Image Playback Decoder format Supported in file format
BMP BMP (.bmp)
GIF GIF (.gif)
JPEG JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
PNG PNG (.png)
WebP WebP (.webp)
Windows bitmap BMP (.bmp)
Image Capture Encoder format Supported in file format
JPEG JPEG (.jpg)










