Customer Ratings & Reviews

Google Products are always great, and this tablet is no exception. the ergonomic design, feel in hands, smooth system, for household and working needs I definitely suggest this.

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.

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.

The overall built and quality is great, but the stand seems overpriced and much needed once the tablet is the hands.

I wasn't sure what to expect when i saw this announced, but it is a very nice tablet. Build quality is very good and is pretty slim. It's nice to be able to use the dock speaker when watching YouTube or listening to music.

Amazing product, just love having it on the table and being able to watch videos. Sound quality on point, screen crystal clear and great display. Would definitely recommend the Pixel tablet.

Works great. I'm not a huge tablet user, but I have tons of pixel products already, and with the dual functionality of this with the dock, figured I'd give it a whirl. Do not regret at all

Pretty awesome tablet for the price. Bought it for my son and he loves it. Plays games on it all the time. Video quality and sound it's very good. No complaints here.

The Pixel Tablet has nice feel to it. The android software is a delight to use and the speaker dock is useful in more ways than one. I’d highly recommend it as a “in home” kind of tablet. It does everything.

I bought this as a birthday gift for my mom. She loves it, so I'm happy with my purchase. The dock is a nice addition.

It's a great tablet.. but it has quirks as a smart home hub. As they advertise it as so. Not everyone can help or ok Google it. It seems u have to unlock it first for it to work with anyone (sometimes)... the hub or hub max work way better at this. For that reason I knock a star off as its no lt as good as home hub max at voice control.. this thing sucks and in the kitchen u don't want to wash hands to just poke skip song since it doesn't want to listen to anyone except for the owners voice. It doesn't work with anyone when in art home hub mode thing. It sucks at this.. I bought this to go in kitchen since it's nice and large but the voice control makes it unusable there...

This tablet has been amazing. Runs very smoothly even when using two apps at the same time. The hub mode also works great and a very nice touch. It basically becomes a smart frame when it's on the dock.

Outstanding device! It’s been a great addition to our Google Home. Great display for pictures, thinking of getting another!!!

Great tablet and love the dock. It is a totally different take on the tablet and makes it so much more useful. The speaker is good quality and being able to cast to it is great.

It works just fine as a tablet. But we bought this as an upgrade to our Lenovo Google Home because Google was removing support for it. Boy did we Love our Lenovo. As it is, the pixel tablet is meant to be both, and it's alright as a tablet and mediocre as a home station. It would be nice to be able to a)have better integration as a smart home station and b) be able to toggle permanently between the two functionalities. Maybe it'll get better, but I expected more at the price point we paid.

Grteat experience, very fluid and the dock is very useful to be side by side with your computer.

Very easy to set up. It connected to all my other devices and works great. It's small and easy for me to carry around. I'm so glad I got it.

Haven't had a tablet in a few years. Didn't really think it was worth it, until I found how many shortcomings Amazon Echo Show had. I'm using this as a home hub plus TV/entertainment in my home office. Way more functional than a home only device.

At first I hated it. It wouldn't Google Hub when it was locked. It said it would but it required you to unlock it every time you asked it to actually do something. Well Google seemed to listen to people's complaints about having to unlock the tablet that is in "hub mode" that is sitting on the other side of the room to turn the lights on that will prevent you from tripping over the coffee table when you have to walk over to the tablet and sprinkled some Google magic on it and now it just works. It's honestly one of the most useful pieces of technology ever. I've always wondered how to maximize the use of a tablet and now you know.

You aren't gonna get a better functioning tablet for the price. Extremely easy to set up, great resolution and touch response, and the dock work great!