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The Google Pixel Tablet is a mid-range tablet with mid-range specs and they've approached
a tablet Market very differently to everyone else and this has made for a new kind of tablet
and the way I see it there are a few pros and cons so the main difference with the pixel
tablet is it's more like an addition to your Google home as well as a tablet and it also
works great for multi-users so I see it working well as a family tablet that can be shared
now the tablet comes with the docking station and it's also got built-in speakers it holds
the tablet to the dock magnetically and it basically becomes a nest Hub Max display now
the speakers that come out of the dock as soon as you're connected and you get the usual
Nest display on the screen but you can now take the tablet off and use it wherever you
want now when you've got it on the dock it works the same as the nest display and it
can be assigned a room it's exactly the same as any other smart home product for playing
music it's pretty much the same as my Nest Hub in terms of volume and sound quality when
you remove it from the dock it's also pretty loud with reasonable quality from its full
speaker system but it is lacking a little bit of bass foreign
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one of the best bits about the pixel tablet is the software though and as I said you can
have different profiles so maybe you want one for home and then one for work or if you've
got a family of four you can all have your own profile now switching profiles essentially
gives you another version of Android with its own apps and setup so what you install
or how you customize the tablet won't affect the other users now I think this is great
if you've got a couple of kids and don't want them to have a tablet each or just a tablet
for you and your partner to share there's also a Google home display when you're not
using it now in terms of the rest of the software I've always been a pixel fan and Google haven't
disappointed here the initial desktop looks great with the pixel looking feel to it we've
got the clock the Google TV widget as well as the icons and the search bar we've also
got something new with the pixel taskbar and if you're in an app like Google Chrome you
can just swipe it up from the bottom and you've now got the taskbar and you can see all of
your apps and open them from here now this works much better than going through a list
of all of your open apps but that's also not so bad in more either with them split into
four to fit more of them on the screen at once we've also got a split screen mode so
you can browse the web or check in your emails and to be fair this does work very well and
of course we've got all of the other useful features like magic eraser and photo and blur
now General use of the tablet is also great with the UI running nice and responsively
thanks to the tensor G2 chipset inside and the only thing I would say is it doesn't feel
as smooth as I'm used to and that's because it's got a 60hz display it's a 10.95 inch
LCD display with a resolution of 2560 by 1600 and while it is smooth enough I've been getting
used to 120 hertz or even 90 Hertz display so it is that little bit jerkier than I'm
used to now when it comes to the hardware it's a little bit underwhelming and we of
course have the tensor G2 with 8 gigs of RAM and 128 storage there's an 8 megapixel camera
on the front and the rear of the tablet and they take good enough photos but it's nothing
special now as always at the Google camera software is incredible so for an 8 megapixel
camera these are some great quality photos and realistically we don't want Flagship level
cameras on a tablet as it would just make it far too expensive but this is the quality
you can expect from the pixel tablets camera now for those of you that want to take some
videos that were also restricted at 1080p from both the front and the rear cameras and
you can also only take videos at 30 frames a second but we'll just take a look at the
video samples now so this is the video from the front facing camera on the pixel tablet
one thing I noticed straight away is I've got my arms at full length here so you really
do have to hold this away
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it does look okay again the only thing for me is this Zoom you have to hold it quite
far away you do get a choice of 1.4 times Zoom Fact one but that's a front-facing camera
so this is a video from the rear camera of the pixel tablet again it doesn't tell me
the resolution it's taking it in I didn't have to check on the computer there's a lot
of noise for cars going by so we'll see how that comes out we'll also just do a slow pan
in the viewfinder also looks okay but it does look to be a little bit low quality but again
we'll see more when we put it onto the computer now it's all powered by a 27 watt hour battery
which easily lasts a day and it of course charges with the included docking station
we've got a USBC port on the bottom now we've got a fingerprint scanner built into the power
button and this works well and it seems to work every time but unfortunately there's
no option for Face Unlock we've got Wi-Fi 6 with Dual Band Wi-Fi Bluetooth 5.2 and an
ultra wide band chip for things like nearby share interestingly it's got Chromecast support
with the pixel tablet you can cast media to another display but you can also use another
device and cast media to the pixel tablet now in terms of accessing your usual apps
and socials it works great all of the apps have worked as expected and you can use them
in portrait or landscape mode although most of the social apps are only really optimized
for portrait and when portrait mode it takes up the whole display and works great and actually
really like it for scrolling through all my apps but if we switch to landscape we get
the black bars on the side so it's basically another trait view now for media it's great
whether it's Prime video Netflix or YouTube and I have to say the YouTube app performs
incredibly well in both landscape and portrait modes with the full speaker system and large
display media is just a pleasure to watch and on the gaming front it also works well
the 102 G2 isn't up there with the top Flagship chipsets but it's still a perfectly capable
chip that'll handle anything you throw at it I've tried Asphalt 9 and as you can see
here it runs incredibly smoothly it's a pleasure to use on such a large display it looks great
it plays incredibly well and there's no dropped frames and we also tried Call of Duty mobile
and again you can see another great experience the large display makes it much easier to
play on the game looks fantastic the frame rate is smooth and steady and there's no drop
frames here either now for this gameplay on Call of Duty I've got the graphic settings
to very high and the frame rate is also set to very high and then the graphic style is
set to realistic now one thing you can't do on a lot of games though is switch orientation
while playing so you can't be playing in landscape and then switch to Portrait and you'll end
up with black bars in a smaller display but there is an on-screen button to restart the
app if you do want to change the orientation while playing now for those of you that care
about the synthetic benchmarks on geekbench 6 we get a single core score of 1440 then
a multiple score of 3438 and then over on the wildlife Benchmark we get an overall score
of 6103 with an average frame rate of 36.5 now the overall design is also nice and simple
we've got nice even bezels around the edge and they're not the thinnest but they're also
not the largest I also like that the same color as the rear panel now the rear also
has a matte finish which makes it nice to touch and it also adds a little bit of grip
and it's also good at not leaving fingerprint marks the tablet as a whole is plain and simple
with just the display on the front then on the rear we've just got a single camera and
that's pretty much it now on to the important question is it worth the money now as I said
it comes with the dock included and the 128 gigabyte version is 499 for those of you in
the USA 599 pounds for the UK it's 679 Euros for the EU and then 699 dollars for Canada
it's pretty much a mid-range tablet with mid-range specs and there's nothing groundbreaking in
terms of Hardware so it all comes down to the software and the feature set if you don't
have a tablet in the household and want something that the family can share then I'd say you
would definitely get your money's worth and have a better experience sharing it than you
would with any other tablet and also if you're going to use the Google home display and have
it docked when you're not using it then again I'd say it's a yes however if you're after
a tablet that's just going to be yours and you're probably going to be taking it out
of the house with you more than using it at home then you'd probably get a better experience
out of something like the iPad or the Galaxy tab so in short I'm saying it's great value
for an indoor tablet that you're also going to use with your smart home and around the
house otherwise I wouldn't maybe consider something else but I like the fact that we're
seeing something a bit different and it's Google's ownership of the software the hardware
and the whole ecosystem that's allowing them to do this now we've also got a guaranteed
five years of updates and to be fair Google have been very good with the updates in the
recent years but that's pretty much it for me today as always though if there's anything
I've missed or you've got any questions at all just leave them in the comments and I'll
get back to you as soon as I can but thanks for watching the video if you liked it smash
the thumbs up if you didn't hit the thumbs down twice and I'll see you guys in the next
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