I found this, I’m wanting to get a pixel tablet in about a week or so. Title just got me wondering a bit, though it’s probably just a little bit sensationalized

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    1 year ago

    Pixel tablets are not priced as if Google is “desperate to sell Pixel Tablets”.

    I think the author is confusing “marketing team motivation” for “desperation” just because they got a push notification.

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      Yeah, I looked up the price because I’ve been thinking of replacing the basic tablet I bought a couple of years ago.

      The Pixel tablet is six times the price. Desperate my ass.

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        What’s even stranger is just how much of that cost is for just the base/speaker unit. It’s $130 on its own. And, unless I’m misremembering, it doesn’t even function as a bluetooth speaker, so it’s effectively only usable by the tablet. Just bizarre choices, IMO.

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      Yup, I’m hoping it hits $350 on Black Friday, and I’ll bite. I’m transitioning my phone to more of a dumb phone, with some key functionality like maps and Spotify, so having a tablet will give me something portable around the house that will let me complete that transition.

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    1 year ago

    Ngl, the Pixel Tablet bundled with the speaker (which I really don’t care for) feels like Xbox One with the Kinect.

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      1 year ago

      I think the speaker stand is a good product for the google nest users out there, but it should have maybe been a separate option or something.

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        I think it’d be nice if they offered an option without the base for $400 especially since the hub experience on it as it is currently isn’t very good. All hub mode does currently is turn it into a glorified digital picture frame with the home controls button in the bottom corner and the Google Home experience isn’t as good as a Nest Hub.

        As it is right now, I wouldn’t consider the Pixel Tablet as a replacement for the Nest Hub.

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          1 year ago

          Out of curiosity what makes the nest hub better/what features does Google home lack?

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            I initially hoped it would have a hub specific interface that looks similar to the Nest Hub. Instead though, the dock basically puts it into screensaver mode and the home icon pulls up the basic Google Home like if you were to tap the quick settings icon.

            As a tablet, it’s decent but I wouldn’t get it if you’re mostly planning to use it with Google Home as I think the current experience is disappointing.

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          Agreed. It seems like the “Hub” mode is just a fancy screensaver which is a placeholder for something more.

          I do like the tablet but the “hub mode” is nothing more than a fancy charger with a speaker. I have to keep a Nest Mini next to it for my smart home things to work in that room when I take the tablet to another part of the house.

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            1 year ago

            I’m personally hoping that you can use the hub mode with custom screensavers. Then I think that might actually be useful to me

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      I have a Pixel Tablet and I really only used the speaker to charge it, but I’m probably going to stop because the base is becoming very flakey with my experience. The speaker randomly loses power and I’ll have to unplug and plug it back in about a dozen times before it’ll start getting power again and this problem started a week after getting it. The charger is not damaged in any way which leads me to think it’s probably defective.

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    1 year ago

    Make an iPad Mini competitor with stylus support.

    I don’t need a tablet as big as my laptop, but with less features.

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    My Pixel 6 issues (originally bluetooth, which now (mostly) finally works, but now overheating and a factory reset to fix background networking just dying) turned me off pretty hard. I ended up getting another Android tablet instead and it, thankfully, has mostly been great.

    I’m still really on the fence about sticking with Google devices for my phone. It’s even push me to consider going back to Apple, which I really don’t want to do. I’d rather stick with Android, but I also don’t want bloatwere and/or spyware (in addition to what using Google apps already gets me).

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      Im in the same boat, I like my pixel 6 pro, but less about device issues, I’ve had my fair share of them. To me google has left me pretty sour, and as someone who has been a huge android and was a fan of Google services. I just can’t give a company my money when they cancel and sell off the services that I loved.

      Pretty sure I’ll be buying my first iPhone if I like the looks of the new 15.

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    The problem is that Galaxy Tab S is far superior and lasts a heck of a long time.

    Google should have done what they did with Wear and worked with Samsung to provide a seamless tablet interface instead of try to do their own tablet.

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      The far cheaper Galaxy Tab A series is a near equivalent competitor for where Google is positioning its tablet (an at-home media device, rather than a highly-performant professional device), and for a lot of people, trading the considerably lower price for no docking station and some older specs is worthwhile.

      Google need to either make the docking capability a lot more appealing, or reduce the price significantly because at the moment it sits squarely in the home entertainment sphere, but with a price tag creeping up to match professional-tier devices - why would someone pay the premium for what is effectively an ebook and Youtube device?

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        The problem with the Galaxy Tab A series is that Samsung cheaps out on their SOCs, to the point where they’re unusably slow for even simple web browsing and watching YouTube.

        The average person buys one because they’re cheap, then thinks all Android tablets suck because of how awful Samsung’s A series tablets have been for years and goes and buys an iPad.

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          I can definitely confirm that. My grandma owns a Galaxy tab A7 lite and it is so slow. And I can’t get it to go any faster no matter what I do. I have no idea how she tolerates that thing, though she does mainly use it just for Facebook, as well as a few solitaire games, including one that hasn’t been updated since like 2017.

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    I bought the Xoom and the Nexus 10, and got my wife a Nexus 7

    Google abandoned all within an extremely short timeframe. The Nexus 10 suffered the worst, getting an awful ui regression a few months after it came out

    I have seen no evidence Google will do any better this time