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The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body

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Re: The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body

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Post by dtx1 »

Moldoteck wrote: post #55
dtx1 wrote: post #2

I was strongly considering the Pixel Tablet to run it with grpahene os as a sort of secure terminal for banking, mail, some chat messengers. But the weird decision to include that useless speaker stand instead of a keyboard case and stylus and the price kept me off it. Seeing the insides shows that was a good decision. That is chinesium tablet level of design. I cannot fathom why Google is so unwilling to take the An…

You'll be better off with a galaxy s6 lite in this case. It's just a product for different categories of consumers

A Galaxy S6 Lite will never be even remotely secure enough to be considered by the Graphene OS Team as a viable device and is already so old that Samsung barely provides security updates for it. It's not even close to being acceptable for my purposes

Re: The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body

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Post by dmitrygr »

jwells89 wrote: post #62
itsoktocry wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but: I bought a Pixel Tablet. It is good. The speaker/charger thing actually pretty useful (I have it on my desk as another screen, sound is decent). I've owned a few Android tablets. This has been the best. They never feel as good as an iPad, but that's normal; hard to beat Apple there. But I have no desire to get back into the Apple ecosystem, I now actively avoid it.

The frustrating thing is that Google has made a tablet that had iPad-level or very close fit and finish, and that was the Pixel C. I had one. It felt nice to use. The problem with that tablet is that the software was awful, causing issues with accidental touch rejection, WiFi flakiness, somewhat frequent hard crashing, etc. They had the hardware, all they had to do was fix the software. Instead they quit making Andro…

The reason that Pixel C was so uncharacteristically good for a google tablet is that the usual suspects in the Android team had basically no part in designing it and making it. It was a ChromeOS team project meant to run ChromeOS, until the 11th hour when an edict forced it to run android. This can be seen in many ways, including in the way it boots, the existence of the standard chrome ec, etc...

Re: The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body

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Post by f3d46600-b66e »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #68
kibwen wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This question strikes me as bizarre. What is the causal relationship between the goodness of a tablet and what its inside looks like?

imagine someone wrote something this silly abour a car - "what is the casual relatio ship between how the performance of the car and what it looks lile under the whood? So what if the engine is a mess, surely thst does not affect how it drives"?

Have you seen an engine compartment of the Tesla? It's empty! So much empty space. Am I paying for this space? Oh no!
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