Google Releases their first in-house Designed and Manufactured Tablet: The Google Pixel C

[kwongger]

Yesterday, Google released their first in-house designed and manufactured tablet, the Google Pixel C.   

 

Source Link: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/meet-pixel-c-our-take-on-tablet.html

 

Buy it here: https://store.google.com/product/pixel_c

 

 

Rather than release yet another Nexus device, usually budget devices that are manufactured by OEM's  like LG, HTC, etc, Google opted to design a premium device, and it is certainly priced that way, at $499 USD for the 32gb Variant and $599 for the 64gb variant.  Both variants are WiFi only, with no word on a LTE Variant.   The device ships with Android 6.0 Marshmallow

 

The Tablet is equipped with a 1.414:1 Aspect ratio, 10.2" Screen with a resolution of 2560x1800.  Under the hood, the tablet boasts an NVIDIA X1 SoC (HOLY SH*T), so it's fair to say now that the tab's hardware is equipped to handle about anything Android can throw at it.  The NVIDIA Tegra X1 is an 8 core (four 1.9 GHz Cortex-A57 cores and four Cortex-A53 cores with a Maxwell GPU).   The tab also boasts 3gb of RAM. 

 

In typical Google fashion, there is no expandable storage.  The Tablet does feature USB 3.1 type-C though.   The only physical features on the tab other than the aluminium body are the aforementioned USB Type-C port, a 3.5mm Headphone jack, and 4 LED's on the back activated by a double tap.  It displays the 4 Google Colors when on, and when tapped when the tab is off, display Battery levels.  

 

There are two optional keyboard attachments.  A Magnetic keyboard, and a keyboard cover.  

 

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_c_keyboard

 

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_c_folio_keyboard

 

 

 

Personal Opinion:

 

Wow!  I'd much rather buy a top-tier Android device than a budget Windows one.   This should be sufficient for note-taking in lectures and other tablet usage.  I'll be ordering one for sure!

 

 

[Letemburn]

Way more than i'm willing to spend on a tablet, but i'm sure there is a market out there for it. I picked up a cheap Asus Memo Pad a couple months back and it suits my needs just fine (clash of clans with family and twitch streaming).

[Sidiox]

The first reviews don't seem to be positive about it. Hardware is good. Software is horrid. This piece of kit is running Android instead of Chrome OS. Chrome OS isn't that amazing but its better suited for a device like this. 

[NickTheMajin]

The nexus 10 was the worst bit of hardware for the money I've ever owned. Don't have high expectations for this.

[Misanthrope]

Again we are still charging 100 usd for and additional 32gb memory. You know what Google? FUCK YOU.

[Warcony]

This product is further justification that Microsoft had it right with the Surface line since day 1...and the Pixel C and iPad Pro offer no innovation on the concept and in most areas regress compared to the surface line. For the price of the Pixel you might as well get a Surface 3, enjoy more storage, better keyboard, a stylus, a trackpad and the ability to actually multitask.

[Nowak]

And once again, the biggest problem is not hardware, but software.

[Kherm]

Who the hell would buy this over the Surface 3 or similar? 

[suicidalfranco]

Now I just need to wait for someone to port remixOS (if not, there's always Debian ) and see how that performs in this tablet

[Commander Llama]

Again we are still charging 100 usd for and additional 32gb memory. You know what Google? FUCK YOU.

 

Haha I know right? oooor 128GB microSD for $55-65 on sale.

 

Oh wait, a lot of the big players are removing microSD. Gee I wonder why.

[razor767]

What is with the aspect ratio?

[ZetZet]

What is with the aspect ratio?

square root of 2

 

Google is scrapping Chrome OS afaik.

 

If they put Windows on this thing it would be a more compelling buy.

why not just buy surface 3, better OS and hardware is basically the same. Keyboard is cheaper, has great stylus.

[Xorbot]

Way more than i'm willing to spend on a tablet, but i'm sure there is a market out there for it. I picked up a cheap Asus Memo Pad a couple months back and it suits my needs just fine (clash of clans with family and twitch streaming).

 

I see the avatar first, then begin reading your message in Scruffy's voice/cadence.

[razor767]

square root of 2

I know but it just looks so weird. 

[Sauron]

500 bucks? No thanks. I paid 400 for my lenovo x220, and the only downside is the lower screen resolution with everything else being better than this tablet.

[ZetZet]

I know but it just looks so weird. 

it's between 16:10 and 3:2. Not that weird. 2.828:2

 

500 bucks? No thanks. I paid 400 for my lenovo x220, and the only downside is the lower screen resolution with everything else being better than this tablet.

surface 3 is plain better than this.

[AlexGoesHigh]

What is with the aspect ratio?

the idea is to resemble a sheet of paper for better productivity tasks, but given how android on tablets is the phone version just expanded, its very barebones for it, especially with the lacks of multitasking you have to switch apps constantly, which ends up in a terrible experience that defeats the purpose of the design itself because you end up opening and closing apps more that you would use them

[Mew]

The cpu is pretty disappointing, but I guess that's no surprise since nVidia isn't known for making cpus.

 

 

It's also a pity that last year's Nexus 9 scores higher in single threaded performance. 

[themodernagenb]

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/8/9869980/google-pixel-c-tablet-review-android

http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/08/google-pixel-c-review/

Two reviews that say it's not worth it. And I agree. What's the point if it runs sluggishly and you can't properly multitask?

[iamdarkyoshi]

In typical Google fashion, there is no expandable storage.

 

Just... WHY???

Does it REALLY cost THAT much to add?

[spartaman64]

Who the hell would buy this over the Surface 3 or similar? 

well its cheaper

[Snickerzz]

Google is scrapping Chrome OS afaik.

If they put Windows on this thing it would be a more compelling buy.

EDIT: Also https://twitter.com/RonAmadeo/status/674298289374814209

They arent scrapping Chrome OS, they've promised updates for at least 5 years

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/30/9641952/google-chrome-os-not-dead-hiroshi-lockheimer

[Guest Kloaked]

They arent scrapping Chrome OS, they've promised updates for at least 5 years

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/30/9641952/google-chrome-os-not-dead-hiroshi-lockheimer

 

I didn't say they weren't going to support it for the devices that already have it, but I'm saying they're replacing it with just Android. You can do the same thing you did to find that article to find another article that backs up my claim.

 

Neither of us are wrong.

[kwongger]

I didn't say they weren't going to support it for the devices that already have it, but I'm saying they're replacing it with just Android. You can do the same thing you did to find that article to find another article that backs up my claim.

 

Neither of us are wrong.

 

 

 

They are not replacing it with android, more merging Chrome OS and Android. 

 

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/29/9639950/google-combining-android-chromeos-report

[patrick3027]

Hmmm a 'productivity device' with 3 GB of RAM and software who only allows to see one app at a time for $650 ... I'll pass