Google Pixel Tablet Review: Android Gets Dockable

[Music] Google's finally got an Android tablet again and it's good the pixel tablet is Google's newest Tab and making a tablet for your home the most unique feature is its dock ability it comes with a charging dock it pops right in it's got a speaker in there and when it's connected the speaker sounds nice and loud and you can also charge it easily the one thing

about this dock is that it doesn't have adjustable angles so if you're going to use it for video chats and by the way this has a great camera you'd have to make sure that you're used to that angle and you're okay with kind of leaning over a little bit although the Google pixel tablet has a camera that will follow you around a bit the pixel tablet's

charge dock uses magnetic pins and it works with the case that is optional so you could take this thing pop it on and not worry about it but this little tablet dock is also really portable the one thing though is that this doesn't work as a Bluetooth speaker so this will only work when the pixel tablet is docked with it which is a little bit of

a bummer but you're probably going to use it when it's stocked with it anyway just means that when you disconnect it you're not going to be able to beam across and then play music on it the pixel tablet charge dock does not charge with USBC the charger that comes with it has its own charge plug but the pixel tablet itself does charge with USBC so if

you leave this behind you could still charge this on the go with any charger that you've got the one thing about the docking here is that because it's magnetic and it kind of hovers it's a little hard to nail The Landing sometimes and also if you want to detach it because this dock is so lightweight you have to make sure to get the angle otherwise you'll

just take the dock with you so a little twist like that but sometimes attaching it can feel easy and other times it can be surprisingly hard to find where it Docs so if you have kids keep that in mind [Music] [Applause] the pixel tablet basically shows some screen Savory type things when it's docked in its hub mode you could also use that to control your smart

home devices very much like you would use any of Google's existing nest Hub products or home hub products it's a disconnectable home hub solution and when you take it off then it turns into a tablet but I like the idea that this has widgets on it and even though the widgets are not as fully formed as I would like it does allow some glance ability with

this tablet the other thing I really like about the pixel tablet is its performance the tensor G2 chip on here is very much like the chips that are on Google's recent pixel phones and it's Zippy it performs fine for my purposes sometimes I can see it has a little bit of lag but compared to your general iPad this feels really nice for doing a lot of

things and that includes multitasking Google worked some really nice multitasking features into Android 13 on them us that our harbinger of also where things will go with foldable phones it's kind of the same philosophy here in a much more affordable tablet so you could bring up two different apps side by side similar to what you can do on the iPad and you can drag apps up

and bring them into different pain modes that have a couple of different adjusting levels and it's perfectly fine for looking at two things at once especially on a budget tablet it's really nice to have that the processor also does a few extra tricks for playing games camera looks really nice in fact you can also do some photo effects and abilities to screen out your background and

create 360 photo backgrounds for Google meet calls and it also has some ability to do photo editing tools much like the pixel phones Google's been talking about Magic Eraser quite a bit so yes you can erase unwanted people from your photos on this tablet so the price on the pixel tablet is also good it's 500 I said also good because you know I would have liked

it to be less than this uh considering it comes with the dock that's a nice plus but I feel like three hundred dollars is the price that I usually want to spend on a budget tablet for kids but 500 is a little bit in the mid territory for a family budget tablet a little more premium compared to what you can get for three hundred dollars and

Google is banking that you're probably going to use this for sharing so maybe that's work to see the equation a bit Google does some really nice sharing options on this though I wish that apple had the ability to swap accounts as easily as Google does on its pixel tablet you could go into kids mode and you could swap over to different guest accounts and make the

sign that you just pick up and use for anyone and that's a great thing especially since you'll have it charged in one spot in your house but five hundred dollars for 120 gigabytes of storage or six hundred dollars for 256 begins to climb into a kind of expensive territory there's also the case which is sold separately the pixel tablet case has a really nice metal adjustable

kickstand and the whole thing docks right into the charger with the case on but that case costs 80 which is not cheap and is not included with the pixel tablet I would have preferred if they had found a way to work a case into the package instead of the charge dock but regardless I would want to get that for Extra Protection the other thing that Google

has not addressed here or any other sorts of inputs or accessories like keyboards or styluses the pixel tablet does not come with a keyboard case if you want to type on it you're gonna have to use the on-screen keyboard or dictation like I'm doing now but the fact that Google doesn't have its own keyboard case or thought about any sort of a stylus here suggests that

they're not thinking about this as a work device which is a little weird because a lot of kids including mine work on tablets and a lot of people use them for a lot of different things maybe as a stand-in alternative to a Chromebook and Google didn't address that here it's really more of a watch stuff play stuff and browse stuff type of a tablet use if

you want to think about something that's a little more of an Android work tablet OnePlus is recent tablet entry addresses a lot of those needs and could be one that you might want to consider instead so overall I'm really happy about the fact that there is now a pixel tablet I hope Google continues to evolve the pixel tablet but I would like to see the pixel

tablet become a little more than just a dockable home hub type solution to become something that could really transform into being a little portable computer and do some other stuff especially with that great processor inside but this is version one and I'm really curious to see where it goes next and hopefully we'll continue because Google products sometimes disappear just when you think they're getting started thanks

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