If I wanted an iPad, I’d pay the same price for the actual thing.
No one wants a luxury Android tablet, we learned that over 10 years ago.
Pixel Tablet
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Re: Pixel Tablet
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wonder who downvotes this. The sole reason why I chose samsung tab over iPad is that iPad is essentially useless as a shared family device - the UX of switching accounts inside apps is just terrible. Tablet should definitely be a multiuser device and it's kinda stupid that Apple actually has multiple accounts functionality, but it only works for school or enterprise.
> it's kinda stupid that Apple Its marketing, by locking that feature you are forced to buy more iPads for other family members.
> you are forced to buy more iPads for other family members
Who does this? 5% of consumers?
I think they-misestimate anyone's desire to be wastefull, both ecologically and financially.
Re: Pixel Tablet
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish there were standard software in Android and iOS to limit charge percentage and battery temperature during charging. It's ludicrous to me that the default behavior is plugging in your phone to a 30W ludicrously fast charger when you go to bed in the evening, where it then climbs to 100% charge and holds there while you sleep. I should be able to tell it I'd like it to reach 85% charge as of the time my alarm go…
> It's ludicrous to me that the default behavior is plugging in your phone to a 30W ludicrously fast charger when you go to bed in the evening, where it then climbs to 100% charge and holds there while you sleep. The Pixel line has adaptive charging, which is active when you have an alarm set, and times the phone to be fully charged by the time the alarm goes off. It's unfortunate this does not seem to be a default b…
I've had Pixel phones for a while now and I just thought that was a standard Android thing.
Re: Pixel Tablet
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wonder who downvotes this. The sole reason why I chose samsung tab over iPad is that iPad is essentially useless as a shared family device - the UX of switching accounts inside apps is just terrible. Tablet should definitely be a multiuser device and it's kinda stupid that Apple actually has multiple accounts functionality, but it only works for school or enterprise.
> iPad is essentially useless as a shared family device - the UX of switching accounts inside apps is just terrible. What does "multiuser" mean to you? The traditional home PC was shared by everyone in the family, all using the same account. What do you accomplish by running multiple accounts on the iPad?
> all using the same account.
not in my family. You only do this if they don't know how to create an account.
Previously PCs contained no personal data - maybe some school work, a few documents and a hidden porn collection .
Nowadays there is all of your messages, bank apps and photos you dont want your parents to see
Re: Pixel Tablet
#225Will GrapheneOS run on it?
It uses the same processor as other supported devices, so it’s likely.
Re: Pixel Tablet
#226Funny, I just replaced my perfectly acceptable, but canceled and unsupported Pixel Slate (2018) tablet with an iPad Pro. No regrets.
> ...unsupported Pixel Slate... What's unsupported about it? I picked this up on a fire sale and it still gets updates.
I'm charging it up and we'll see. It was fairly quiet for a while.
I have a specific use in mind, leveraging on-device speech recognition. Ideally I'll be able to achieve parity with the iPad.
Re: Pixel Tablet
#227> The included charging dock is also a speaker. I've gotta say, charging docks are a killer feature for me and I don't understand why Apple doesn't do the same. There used to be the Logitech Base [1] that I still use with the previous-gen (9th) iPad, but the smart connector in the newest iPad (10th gen) is no longer compatible with it, as the angle of the edge changed. It's been years since I plugged in my phone or A…
The charging dock is cool, but feels like a missed opportunity to have it be a regular Google Home speaker when the tablet is undocked.
That was the headline error in the Verge's coverage too ...
The Pixel Tablet is half of what it could have been https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/11/23718860/pixel-tablet-doc...
But I really don't understand - that would require the dock to have a screen, a SoC, mic's etc. That would be a completely different and much more expensive piece of hardware.
No way they could have included that with the tablet, unless they called it a bundle (which is what it would have been) and charged more.
Re: Pixel Tablet
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah it ain't bad, but my desktop has 4K@15.6", which is around 280dpi. Actually smaller gap than I thought, but an 11 inch display is going to be used closer which amplifies it. Brightness and vividness of colors is a huge plus though, OLEDs are amazing . I love them. But it's gotta be 4K. Maybe I am just cursed with above-average vision.
I'm a high dpi/tiny font person too. I still use font size 14+ even with a very close to face small display. My belief is that higher dpi isn't useful or necessary. I can read font size 8 on a low dp display fine & not complain. If your display isnt as high dpi as you want, there's almost always plenty of font sizes down you can go & still be fine.
Not tiny fonts. Normal sized fonts, but cleaner. More pixels.
I like 4K because it's an easy 1080p display but with enough pixels to make everything look way better. And everything divides evenly with a perfect 200% scale factor so I don't get any weird rounding errors.
On Android this is much, much less of an issue due to their DIP system, but more pixels still = better, imho.
Re: Pixel Tablet
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wonder who downvotes this. The sole reason why I chose samsung tab over iPad is that iPad is essentially useless as a shared family device - the UX of switching accounts inside apps is just terrible. Tablet should definitely be a multiuser device and it's kinda stupid that Apple actually has multiple accounts functionality, but it only works for school or enterprise.
> iPad is essentially useless as a shared family device - the UX of switching accounts inside apps is just terrible. What does "multiuser" mean to you? The traditional home PC was shared by everyone in the family, all using the same account. What do you accomplish by running multiple accounts on the iPad?
> all using the same account
Never heard of this. Anyone I knew back in the days with a home PC always had an account for each family member. Multi account on PC is a long solved problem. Not sure why iPad still hasn't solved it after over a decade.
Re: Pixel Tablet
#230Well, better late than never. Many, many years ago when Android 2 was all the rage, Motorola has shipped Xoom tablet with Android 3. That Android version turned out to be a dead end, and the whole line of tablets went nowhere. Next Google's attempt at tablets was Nexus 7 device, which was actually great, esp 2013 version that still lays around somewhere in my office and sees occasional use. But then, Google kind of f…
Uhm wasn't the Nexus 7 the tablet that literally bricked itself within a year by the storage degrading to floppy speed?
>Uhm
So strange to see these fillers typed out on HN and reddit.
>wasn't the Nexus 7 the tablet that literally bricked itself within a year by the storage degrading to floppy speed?
The 2012 version that I owned did precisely that. It was a great device for the time, and it is unfortunate that they discontinued it after just a few iterations.