Customer Ratings & Reviews

I missed the old google tablet 7" (Nexus 7) from back in the day so this is a nice return to form. Affordavle, flexible, and decent performance for the price. The speaker dock is interesting, would be nice to be able to get them for a bit cheaper since it might be nice to have on in the office and one by the bed.

This has to be the best tablet i've either had. First the Dock which acts like a nest hub has a great speaker. Second since this tablet has two left speakers and two right speakers and stays loud and clear. unlike ipads this is smoother and is a lot cheaper for the technical specs. and i also love the software

An all around wonderful tablet, especially if you're a fan of Google products. Lightweight, fast, and responsive. The only reason I'm giving it 4 stars is that it does NOT act as a Nest cam when docked which I find insane, particularly when being touted as the replacement for the Nest Hub Max.

This thing is simply amazing. The screen resolution, the quality of the materials they used to make it. The memory chip is enough for today and into the future. The speaker and the tablet are amazing. Good sound and it picks up any instruction quick. You can not go wrong with this.

This is what i was hoping for years ago when i bought the nest hub max. Everything great about Android and you can take it off the dock. I love make Group calls with Google meet instead of having the nest hub send me a link to send to people!

Great tablet if purchased on sale. Anyone who enjoys the pixel material expressive ui and the unique dock functions should give this a try. It's not as flashy or as powerful as the latest Galaxy tabs or iPads. It's it's own thing.

Overall a great product, but i wish the speaker would keep and hold power so it doesn't have to be constantly plugged in.

Just as cable as my other tablets. UI is a little clunky, and a little less intuitive than my Samsung. But this does everything that my old Samsung does so no complaints on my end. The dock is great! Not as functional as I would like, but useful nonetheless.

Battery life is really good, far better than what other reviews made it seem. Its a great, multifunctional piece of hardware that is far more innovative than anything Apple has put out in years. It is far more worthy of this price tag than any iPad.

Has been an excellent purchase. Very smooth operation and the sound quality is outstanding. Great for watching any type of video, Internet an was an easy add to our smart home network.

I'm loving my pixel tablet so far. I wasn't sure if I would utilize the dock much but I've found I use it quite a bit while sitting at my desk. I have a pixel phone so I really enjoy the continuity going from phone to tablet and back. Very happy with my purchase!

I really like this tablet. I've been using an iPad for years for business. This is better for entertainment purposes as the screen has a beautiful picture. However, if you need something to take really good photos, this is probably not your best choice.

The Google Pixel tablet is an absolute. Fantastic addition to my home. It is a tablet, a nest hub, and a doorbell camera. All-in-one. I'm exceptionally in love with this product. The speakers are not fantastic, but they are absolutely adequate for a bedroom.

Decent midrange tablet with some nice google home integrations. Dissapointed about the speaker not having an integrated MCU to function in the speaker group when tablet is undocked, but at least you can add the docked tablet to speaker groups. Sound on the tablet while docked is pretty below expectation as well. Was expecting sound quality on par with Nest Audio given that the dock by itself is $30 more than a Nest Audio and doesn't even have an integrated MCU or any functionality without the tablet. I don't think my expectations were unrealistic, but Google definitely under delivered on this one. The hope was to essentially have a Nest Hub Max that could double up as a tablet when needed and function as a smart speaker in a home group at the same time. What I got was a mid range tablet that lives on a dock and is rarely used that has significantly worse sound quality than lower priced Hub and Audio devices from google. Would rather just grab one of the now heavily discounted Nest Hub Max devices in hind sight. If you want a tablet first and everything else barely considered than you'll be happy with it. It's ok, and bundled with the speaker dock it's not a bad deal. It's just meh, but there is no excuse for a $130 speaker dock to have no functionality without the tablet and have sound quality barely at the level of average laptops with just a hint of better clarity in the low ends. If the sound was meh, but there was quality software integrations and the dock could be used independently of the tablet as a smart speaker it would be awesome. If there weren't any features or bells on the dock, but it provided excellent room filling audio on par or better than a Nest Audio it would be awesome. Unfortunately, it falls very short on both fronts and ends up being just ok.

Great little tablet for watching videos, I love the docking feature to get some better sound while I'm at my desk. The added bonus of functioning as a google home is great too.

Really nice tablet Love the sound that comes from the dock speakers on the tablet are okay it seamlessly transfers the sound from the tablet to the dock.. really fast decent colors just a little pricey right now

Ok it's not perfect but it's a great tablet. If you have the Pixel ecosystem and just need a basic tablet, get it now! Speaker dock is a great bonus!! Wish the display was 120hrz.

If you are vested in Google and the Android ecosystem, this is a great option for middle sized screens. And has some features and accessories included that you usually don’t see. Pleasantly surprised.

I love it overall, the dock is very nice. Very powerful.

When the Pixel Tablet was first announced I thought it would just be a Next Hub Max with a removable screen to double as a tablet and this concerned me. I thought the tablet would be of cheap quality considering the price of the Pixel Tablet, which is around the starting price of a decent tablet alone. But from the first moment I had the tablet in my hands- how light it was; how solid and premium it felt- I realized I was probably wrong. And then when I powered it on and found out it had a 2560x1600 resolution screen, not the 1280x800 of the Nest Hub Max or 1080p, which was the resolution bump I expected from the Nest Hub Max. I was shocked! On top of that, it’s an IPS display! You can view the display from all angles without much distortion. I was wrong. The Pixel Tablet’s tablet isn’t a cheap quality tablet AT ALL. It’s a high quality mid-range Android tablet. Build The tablet is lightweight at 480 grams. It’s slightly heavier than an iPad Air, but slightly lighter than the Galaxy Tab S8. Yet not as expensive as either. It’s made of metal so it’s solid- no creaks or flex. But the back is coated with a material that feels grippy but not sticky. It has a very satisfying feel because it’s smooth but it has friction and doesn’t feel slippery. I don’t feel worried about accidentally dropping it from slickness. Thanks to this unique texture, it isn’t a fingerprint magnet. The power button is nearly on the same level as the edges of the tablet for some reason. Normally buttons stick out of the edges like the way the volume rocker buttons do on the Pixel Tablet. Not this power button. It made it a bit tough for me to find at times. On that power button is a fingerprint reader that is very responsive and quick. My only issue is finding it at times. It’s the volume rocker buttons that I’m not the biggest fan of. If I lightly tap on it, the button makes that cheap rattle sound from it being loose. It feels cheap. Thankfully, the actual button presses don’t feel as cheap though. Display It’s an LCD display but it’s gorgeous! First off, for an always-on smart home display, you wouldn’t want OLED since the clock text doesn’t change often, especially the hour. You’d risk burn-in. LCD is the smart choice here until there’s a better solution. Its resolution is also 2560x1600 on a 10.75” viewable display. It makes the pixel density fantastic, to a point where it looks like the content is painted on the display. It’s tough to see a single pixel. As mentioned earlier, it uses an IPS display which allows you to view the screen at an angle with little distortion. The screen itself doesn’t attract fingerprints thanks to the coating on it. The one knock on it is that it’s a 60Hz display. But that’s what you would expect from a tablet of this price range. A popular tablet of this weight and size with a 120Hz display costs $200 more. With that said, if you’ve never used a 120Hz touch display, you won’t notice any issues because 60Hz is pretty much the standard. 120Hz is premium at the moment. Performance The Pixel Tablet comes equipped with a Tensor G2, which is the same System on a Chip (SoC) used on the Pixel 7, which is the current generation of Google’s line of Pixel phones. It comes with 8 GB of RAM which is what other tablets in this price range offer, and is enough to work with multiple apps open. I’m actually writing this review on the Pixel Tablet with Chrome open in a split window, and Twitter on the other side of the split window. I also have ESPN playing in PIP for a total of 3 apps running simultaneously. For input, I have a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse connected to the Pixel Tablet. I haven’t experienced any lag from normal use. However, if I push the processor with gaming while having another video app open, the tablet will eventually get warm and thermal throttling kicks in. This slows the tablet down. But this is an extreme case. The way I had it happen was by opening a Wii emulator with a game running, and a PS2 emulator with a gaming running, both in split window, and the HDHomeRun app playing TV in PIP. So, that was 3 apps running simultaneously, with the 2 emulators being CPU-hungry. It took a while for the tablet to get warm and have the throttling kick in too; not sure how long. I didn’t hear any fans, but when powered off, the tablet cools down rather quickly. It never gets hot to touch; just warm. As for gaming, I’m not much of a traditional Android gaming. My preference is console gaming, or games ported over from consoles. So I deal with emulation. It can handle PS2 emulation and most of Wii emulation just fine (aside from the bugs associated with the emulation itself, not hardware) with up to 2x upscaling. The Pixel Tablet’s GPU is a Mali G710. Storage The model I have is 128GB but it also comes in 256GB. There is expandable storage, so I wish Google would have offered a 512GB model. You won’t need that much space if you’re mainly streaming your content, but not everyone uses a tablet that way. If you want to store your game library locally the extra space is invaluable. The internal storage speeds is as follows: Sequential write: 208.38MB/s Sequential read: 631.72MB/s Random write: 43.99MB/s Random read: 28.81MB/s It’s fairly fast. Sound There are 4 speaker grills on the tablet itself but the sound from the tablet speakers really lack bass and has a poor sound stage. Everything sounds so internalized; compact. But they’re not the worst. They’re serviceable and decent enough for a tablet. When connected to the magnetic speaker charging dock, that’s when the sound shines. It’s essentially like a Nest Hub Max. You can hear the bass and the sound stage is much more open now. It doesn’t sound like the sound is coming from inside the tablet, but it’s emitting out of it. The bass won’t please listeners that want the exaggerated thumping bass. It lacks the power. But the bass from the speaker dock sounds pretty clean, not muddy. Vocals are heard clearly and not masked by the bass. Dock The dock really unlocks the optimal sound of the Pixel Tablet. You can use the tablet in Hub mode without the dock, but the tablet’s speakers are lacking for a smart home display that would need to cover a whole room. The dock has 4 magnetic prongs which incredibly powerful. When you bring the tablet around its vicinity, the magnets will tug the tablet towards it to seat it properly for charging. The angle is perfect sitting in front of it on a desk. While I’m typing this review it feels like I have a mini PC. When standing, it’s based viewed from a distance. When you’re connecting the Pixel Tablet to its dock while playing sound on the tablet speakers, the Pixel Tablet will seamlessly switch the sound to the dock nearly instantaneously. There’s a slight pause when connecting to the dock because it plays a connection sound effect first, before resuming the audio you were listening to. When switching from dock to tablet speakers though it’s closer to instantaneous because it doesn’t play that connection sound effect. Hub Unfortunately, Google Assistant is pretty inconsistent when it comes to reliability. Some days it will respond to smart home commands quickly. Other days it will take up to 5 seconds sometimes for it to respond or carry out a voice command. The way Google responds to your inquiries can change without warning either. For what seemed like over a year, when I asked Google for store hours, it would do a Google Image search of the store instead. Ironically, it can act erratic if you own other Google Nest Hub devices in your home. When I first set it up, every time I asked it to play music, my Nest Hub Mini from a different room intercepted the command even though my Pixel Tablet that was docked was only less than 1 foot away from me in a silent room. Eventually it corrected itself I guess because it doesn’t happen anymore. It’s frustrating as there appears to be no rhyme or reason to it. So if you’ve never used a Google Nest Hub device before take that to consideration. My main reason for sticking with the Google Nest Hub was because I found the ability to cast video to the display with Chromecast invaluable. Unlike other mirroring solutions, which has the content playing on the host device too, Chromecast only plays the content on the display you’ve casted it to freeing up the device you’re casting it from. Now that the Pixel Tablet runs on full Android, I don’t even have to rely on Chromecast. I can play video from the apps on the tablet itself and enjoy a more reliable experience and access to more content since Chromecast is limited to apps that support it. Camera There is a front/selfie camera and rear camera and they’re decent. Not terrible or cheap. But also not meant for any meaningful photography by any means. The shots I took from both cameras were clear, and the colors looked accurate, but also looked soft and loses detail when zoomed it. The front camera is great for video conferencing. It doesn’t display a lot of noise. Both front and rear cameras take pictures in 6MP, and shoot video in 1080p. Battery Life While streaming video non-stop, 90% brightness, 75% volume, and occasionally opening some apps like Twitter in split window while the video was playing I got 9 hours and 49 minutes. But realistically, no one is going to use their tablet that way, non-stop. Real life usage will last you longer than this. While running 2 games in split window, and HDHomeRun playing TV, non-stop, I got 4 hours 25 minutes. If it were only one gaming running continuously, I’d have to imagine the battery would only last much longer. Charging from 0% to 100% Dock: 3 hours 11 minutes USB-C 45W charger: 2 hours 39 minutes So, using a 25W or better USB-C charger makes charging from 0% to 100% roughly 30 minutes faster. The difference between a 25W and 45W charger is negligible though 45W is a hair faster. Anything above 45W has no added benefit.