1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Ooh, the last time I covered a Google made tablet 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:11,360 was 2018 with the Pixel Slate. It was a Chrome OS powered tablet 3 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:18,200 that had amazing speakers. But the rest of it sucked so hard, it flopped so bad 4 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:21,720 Google didn't make another tablet for five years. 5 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:28,340 Fast forward five years and here we are with the new Google Pixel tablet. 6 00:00:28,340 --> 00:00:34,860 It's powered by Android, not Chrome OS, thankfully. And it's got a bit of a different gimmick 7 00:00:34,860 --> 00:00:38,780 to a lot of the other tablets that we see out on the market these days 8 00:00:38,780 --> 00:00:42,980 because in the box is one of these, 9 00:00:42,980 --> 00:00:46,180 which is the charging speaker dock, 10 00:00:46,180 --> 00:00:49,620 which comes with the Pixel tablet by default. 11 00:00:49,620 --> 00:00:54,180 They're really designing this thing, not just as a tablet in the style of like Apple 12 00:00:54,180 --> 00:00:58,380 who's trying to be like, oh, it's a computer. They are being pretty upfront about the fact 13 00:00:58,380 --> 00:01:00,980 that this thing is not going to replace your laptop. 14 00:01:01,940 --> 00:01:06,320 We got a power adapter. Oh, that's not super long. 15 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:09,860 I am disappointed to see that we're still using barrel chargers for stuff like this. 16 00:01:09,860 --> 00:01:15,420 Like, can we not just do USB-C for everything please? Like, and we also got some documentation. 17 00:01:15,420 --> 00:01:19,580 Let's get started. Press and hold the power button. I need to know that. 18 00:01:19,580 --> 00:01:23,260 On the, oh, here we go. It's the whole debate again. Which one's the top? 19 00:01:23,260 --> 00:01:27,500 The camera's on this side. I think that's the top. I think we can say that it's the top for sure 20 00:01:27,500 --> 00:01:31,220 because will it attach the magnets? Yes. Camera on the top there. 21 00:01:31,220 --> 00:01:35,220 So this is the top. Okay, on this side, we have volume rocker. 22 00:01:35,220 --> 00:01:39,340 Yes, I'm guessing unless I'm tripping and that's not a rocker and just a button. 23 00:01:39,340 --> 00:01:42,340 Power button with an integrated fingerprint reader 24 00:01:42,340 --> 00:01:47,140 if I'm not mistaken. We got two mics, I guess, on the top as well. 25 00:01:47,140 --> 00:01:50,140 We got, okay, two speakers. 26 00:01:50,140 --> 00:01:54,020 And I guess another mic. On this side, we have, 27 00:01:54,020 --> 00:01:58,940 these are like rubberized stompers. We can call them stompers. 28 00:01:58,940 --> 00:02:04,620 And on the other side, we have two more speakers and the USB-C 3.2 Gen 1. 29 00:02:04,620 --> 00:02:10,620 Not bad. Of course, you can charge it via that USB-C port but you can also charge it on the charging dock. 30 00:02:10,620 --> 00:02:16,780 Remember how that's part of the name? On the front is a 10.95 inch display 31 00:02:16,780 --> 00:02:20,060 with a 2560 by 1600 resolution. 32 00:02:20,060 --> 00:02:23,640 That is 276 pixels per inch. 33 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:27,960 An eight megapixel camera on the front here and another eight megapixel camera on the back, 34 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,760 although it's bigger. This color is porcelain and it comes in two other colors, 35 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:37,840 Hazel and Rose, because you don't wanna offend anybody with like a bright purple or something, calm down. 36 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,840 The charging dock itself is good weight, good for juggling. 37 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:48,240 It's got a rubberized bottom like the other nest hubs. I have a nest hub at home, not a nest hub max 38 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:54,500 because I'm not trying to impress anybody. And it's got this fabric covering over a speaker. 39 00:02:54,500 --> 00:02:58,420 There's a speaker in there and there's also speakers in here, as I said. 40 00:02:58,420 --> 00:03:01,700 One thing that I haven't mentioned is that it does have the Tensor G2, 41 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:05,060 the same chip that is powering the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro 42 00:03:05,060 --> 00:03:09,380 inside this thing, which means that we should have some pretty good hardware 43 00:03:09,380 --> 00:03:15,340 in there if we wanna do anything intensive. So let's check it out after this message from our spot. 44 00:03:15,340 --> 00:03:19,700 Okay, we got our charging dock plugged in here and you can just pop it on there. 45 00:03:20,340 --> 00:03:24,700 I was gonna say I'm pretty satisfied with how it like finds its way onto the dock, 46 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:28,700 but I mean, if I'm not looking and I just do this 47 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:31,940 or you could slide down, ooh, that was very satisfying. 48 00:03:31,940 --> 00:03:37,340 Being the first tablet that Google has made as a first-party device in five years, 49 00:03:37,340 --> 00:03:42,340 it also represents the arrival of Google's new tablet-focused, 50 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:48,300 tablet-optimized Android experience. It's finally time to have our apps 51 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:51,660 be a little bit more optimized for larger screens 52 00:03:51,660 --> 00:03:55,340 on our quote-unquote mobile operating systems. 53 00:03:55,340 --> 00:03:59,020 Right away, it was pretty dark when I turned it on, but like turning it all the way up, 54 00:03:59,020 --> 00:04:02,300 it says that it's supposed to be capable of 500 nits. 55 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:06,580 That's very bright and on the camera view. But according to Labs, 56 00:04:06,580 --> 00:04:09,620 they actually registered it going up to 550 nits, 57 00:04:09,620 --> 00:04:13,420 which is very, very impressive for a tablet that's supposed to remain indoors. 58 00:04:13,420 --> 00:04:17,500 I mean, we have our bright lights here, so I'm gonna, I need it to be a little bit brighter. 59 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:21,580 What are you gonna use this device for? I mean, it's got the Tensor G2 inside. 60 00:04:21,580 --> 00:04:28,020 Like I said, it's got eight gigs of RAM and either 128 or 256 gigs of storage. 61 00:04:28,020 --> 00:04:33,900 You know, like I said, they have positioned this as sort of a more casual home device 62 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:37,100 instead of like something that you're going to really use for work. 63 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:42,780 It's gonna sit here in your kitchen or on your bedstand or whatever. So the speakers and the, you know, display quality 64 00:04:42,780 --> 00:04:46,500 are probably gonna be a bit important, so let's check that out. Let's go to YouTube. 65 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:52,500 Although it's also got Google TV. This does not quite look like the actual, you know, TV, 66 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:56,620 although what happens? Does anything happen if I set it on there? No, it just looks like the same. 67 00:04:56,620 --> 00:05:00,780 Okay, so it looks like a bigger version of the Google TV Android app that you would like open on your phone. 68 00:05:00,780 --> 00:05:05,460 I mean, it looks to me like it's been optimized a little bit for a tablet interface 69 00:05:05,460 --> 00:05:12,580 instead of like being a big, big phone. I've heard that the third-party apps, non-Google apps, 70 00:05:12,580 --> 00:05:17,220 don't look as good. Okay, let's open Instagram because that's not a Google app. 71 00:05:17,220 --> 00:05:20,580 Although it's not a app that's optimized for tablet 72 00:05:20,580 --> 00:05:24,820 for a big screen, you can double-tap on one side to kind of bring it to one side 73 00:05:24,820 --> 00:05:30,420 so you can use it like a big phone, I guess, and double-tap to bring it over there again. 74 00:05:30,420 --> 00:05:34,700 So there's that. All right, let's take a look at the screen quality and speaker quality. 75 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:38,020 That's Max. 76 00:05:38,020 --> 00:05:40,620 I'm gonna pull it back a little bit. That's pretty loud. 77 00:05:46,460 --> 00:05:47,460 That's pretty good. 78 00:05:51,780 --> 00:05:55,780 It's really tinny when you do that, but when you give it a little bit of space, 79 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:02,020 does not sound good on the table. Like I said in the intro, 80 00:06:02,020 --> 00:06:05,420 the Pixel Slate speakers blew me away. 81 00:06:05,420 --> 00:06:10,100 This is not as good. However, you can get even more power. 82 00:06:16,540 --> 00:06:22,620 I actually don't like it as much on the stand. 83 00:06:22,620 --> 00:06:26,500 So you like bass and mids, eh? Here's some more. And I'm like, not that much. 84 00:06:33,820 --> 00:06:37,020 After my extensive scientific testing process, 85 00:06:37,020 --> 00:06:41,460 I've determined that there's no audio coming out of the tablet speakers when it's on the dock. 86 00:06:41,460 --> 00:06:46,340 Okay, it turns out I imagined that whole thing about it using both the tablet speakers and the dock speakers 87 00:06:46,340 --> 00:06:50,060 when you attach it to the dock. But now I'm really sad 88 00:06:50,060 --> 00:06:53,980 because that could potentially fix the issue 89 00:06:53,980 --> 00:06:59,620 with these speakers that I have. Having the sort of tweeters on the tablet kind of fill that in, 90 00:06:59,620 --> 00:07:03,420 again, maybe would fix that problem. I don't know. I don't make tablets. 91 00:07:03,420 --> 00:07:07,300 I just make fun of them. Overall sound impressions are really good. 92 00:07:07,300 --> 00:07:10,580 I'm impressed with the sound from the tablet itself, 93 00:07:10,580 --> 00:07:16,420 although while I was talking about that, I was thinking about relaxing with just the tablet itself. 94 00:07:16,420 --> 00:07:21,740 And I realized there's no headphone jack. USB-C or Bluetooth earbuds only. 95 00:07:21,740 --> 00:07:26,180 Now, I don't expect that you'll use the rear camera a whole ton with this tablet, 96 00:07:26,180 --> 00:07:32,820 but you very well might use the front-facing camera for Zoom calls, not Zoom calls, Google Meet. 97 00:07:32,820 --> 00:07:38,860 You'll use the video calling app that Google has not killed yet. 98 00:07:38,860 --> 00:07:42,820 Hey, grandma, I'm just trying to make your recipe 99 00:07:42,820 --> 00:07:47,060 that you gave me for chocolate muffins, but I'm out of chocolate. 100 00:07:47,060 --> 00:07:50,660 Is there something I could use instead? Raisins? 101 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:53,820 Yeah, this is a max volume. 102 00:07:55,620 --> 00:07:56,940 That's not very loud. 103 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:02,940 And that's max volume on the charging dock. 104 00:08:02,940 --> 00:08:07,740 I don't know whether that's the camera app itself or some other issue, but it seems like the mics 105 00:08:07,740 --> 00:08:11,940 on this thing might be pretty weak. What are you gonna take a selfie photo with? 106 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:13,740 I mean, it seems to look better. 107 00:08:15,420 --> 00:08:21,340 I'm used to photos onto some devices looking a little bit better than I expect on this set 108 00:08:21,340 --> 00:08:26,900 because we have a professional lighting setup. And when a photo is not as impressive on this setup, 109 00:08:26,900 --> 00:08:32,940 I think you know that there's an issue. Let's see. Ooh, that's pretty rough on the video mode. 110 00:08:32,940 --> 00:08:36,860 Let's take some video. Raise the roof. 111 00:08:36,860 --> 00:08:39,820 Lots of noise, lots of artifacting. 112 00:08:40,780 --> 00:08:44,260 Over here with the more well-lit stuff. 113 00:08:44,260 --> 00:08:48,140 Still. That's not amazing. So it's eight megapixels. 114 00:08:48,140 --> 00:08:52,060 The cameras don't seem that good. Frankly, I think this actually is below the line 115 00:08:52,060 --> 00:08:56,660 of what I would consider acceptable for a Google-made device. 116 00:08:56,660 --> 00:09:00,500 Like it's the Pixel tablet. It's the first-gen tablet. You could argue that that means 117 00:09:00,500 --> 00:09:05,580 that it shouldn't be that good, but it's just regular smartphone cameras, especially for something where you may be, 118 00:09:05,580 --> 00:09:08,580 oh, maybe something's happening in your house. Your kid is doing something cool 119 00:09:08,580 --> 00:09:12,300 and you want to take a photo real quick or whatever and it's right there and you grab it and it's like, 120 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:16,740 however, it might redeem itself with the performance. 121 00:09:16,740 --> 00:09:20,980 So let's take a look. Labs did testing. So according to the Labs testing, 122 00:09:20,980 --> 00:09:24,300 the Tensor G2 and the Pixel tablet performs 123 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:29,940 about on par with the Pixel 7 Pro, which has the same processor, dolphin emulator. 124 00:09:29,940 --> 00:09:35,100 We got a little bit more. Genshin is less, actually, 125 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:41,500 but Call of Duty Mobile and Unhappy Raccoon both pull ahead a little bit over the Pixel 7 Pro, 126 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:45,100 which is interesting to see. There's more room for activities in there. 127 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:49,780 In our non-gaming tests, it's a similar situation in 3D Mark Wildlife Extreme 128 00:09:49,780 --> 00:09:54,100 is slight bump, but in app launches, there's actually a bit of a, 129 00:09:54,100 --> 00:09:58,500 what's the opposite of a bump? A dent. A dent across the board. 130 00:09:58,500 --> 00:10:01,620 In our battery tests with data courtesy of the lab, 131 00:10:01,620 --> 00:10:06,220 we've got some pretty impressive results. The Pixel tablet matched the Pixel 7a 132 00:10:06,220 --> 00:10:11,540 and did much better than the Pixel 7 Pro with 21 and a half hours in our longevity test, 133 00:10:11,540 --> 00:10:15,500 which was playing YouTube videos at 720p and 50% brightness. 134 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:19,980 You're probably gonna wanna play videos at a higher res than that most of the time with tablet. 135 00:10:19,980 --> 00:10:25,500 So just be aware, but still very impressive. The Pixel tablet also lasted 4.15 hours 136 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:29,540 in our stress test, which was quite impressive compared to the other phones we've tested, 137 00:10:29,540 --> 00:10:32,980 which makes sense since the Pixel tablet has a 7,000 milliamp hour battery, 138 00:10:32,980 --> 00:10:36,340 probably more than most of the phones here. For charging, the Pixel tablet was able to get 139 00:10:36,340 --> 00:10:39,500 to 48% battery in an hour, which isn't too bad, 140 00:10:39,500 --> 00:10:45,820 but then you'll have to wait another hour and 55 minutes to get to the full charge with its 65 watt charger, 141 00:10:45,820 --> 00:10:49,380 which isn't amazing, but you know, it's a tablet, it's got a pretty big battery, pretty good. 142 00:10:49,380 --> 00:10:54,780 When it comes to display testing, Labs found that overall, the display is pretty good. 143 00:10:54,780 --> 00:10:57,940 As I said, it measures at 550 nits, 144 00:10:57,940 --> 00:11:01,420 which is above its rated 500 nits. And for color accuracy, 145 00:11:01,420 --> 00:11:04,620 it hits about a 98% sRGB rating, 146 00:11:04,620 --> 00:11:08,580 which is pretty good, but not HDR level. 147 00:11:08,580 --> 00:11:11,640 For connectivity, it doesn't have the most cutting edge standards. 148 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,140 It's got Wi-Fi 6 instead of 6E or 7, 149 00:11:15,140 --> 00:11:19,020 and it's Bluetooth 5.2. It'll do you fine for what you're doing. 150 00:11:19,020 --> 00:11:23,540 But it is the first tablet made by Google 151 00:11:23,540 --> 00:11:27,460 that supports Chromecast as a receiving device. 152 00:11:27,460 --> 00:11:31,400 So you can cast stuff from another device 153 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:35,660 to your Pixel tablet. Another thing I want to note is that 154 00:11:35,660 --> 00:11:42,000 because this is using Google's, you know, new optimized tablet-esque form of Android, 155 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:48,000 that is also on the foldables, we can see the same sort of dock that is now in Android, 156 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,100 like a la iPadOS or MacOS. 157 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:56,980 We were debating whether that dock is actually useful, but I think one major way that it can be useful 158 00:11:56,980 --> 00:12:00,640 is to use it in a way that you can do on iPadOS, 159 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:06,960 and you've been able to do for a while. So like if I split screen, and I select another app, 160 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:12,440 on an Android phone, without the dock, you can't replace one of the apps in the split screen. 161 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:16,920 Some third-party manufacturers like Samsung or ASUS or whatever, they might have some way to get around this. 162 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,960 I'm not sure. But now it's baked into Android itself that you can bring up this dock, 163 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:25,440 and I'm gonna say, oh, I want to use, I want to get this one. I want to get rid of Play Store, 164 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:31,280 and I want it to be Chrome instead. Now you can do that. That's pretty cool. This speaker comes with the tablet, 165 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:35,120 but you can buy another one for $130. 166 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:40,480 The argument for wanting one is so that you can have one in one place, and then another dock 167 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:44,120 in another area of your room, so you can like pick up the tablet, 168 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:48,720 you know, walk into the next room, glued to your screen, like a doom scroller, 169 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:52,240 and walk into your other room where there's another charging dock, 170 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:56,320 and place it down there. $130 for that convenience, though? 171 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,440 That's a hard sell. But the whole package with the charging dock 172 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:06,940 and the tablet is $499, which I would say, especially in today's economy, 173 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:11,720 is a little steep for essentially a glorified nest hub. 174 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,960 I mean, you can take it off and use it as tablet, sure, but it's only 11 inches. 175 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,280 You're not gonna be using it for like work as well. 176 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:24,280 It's pretty much just a play and like home helping tablet. 177 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:29,120 Although, if this thing's worth $130, 178 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:32,880 that means the tablet is only 370. 179 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,320 If you're looking for a pretty good tablet at the lower end of the range, 180 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:39,600 Apple's ninth gen iPad, which I think is the least powerful one 181 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:44,520 that they sell now is 329, which is even cheaper than 370, 182 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:49,960 which is a made up price I came up with after taking away the price of the speaker dock. 183 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:56,560 It's 499, so this thing's $500, which is more expensive than the 10th gen iPad, 184 00:13:56,560 --> 00:14:00,320 which is really kind of the bottom current gen iPad that Apple offers. 185 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:04,000 So like, it's got the speaker, yes, but I can guarantee you 186 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,160 there's gonna be some jank with this. It's not an iPad. 187 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,000 I feel like I've liked Apple a bit more recently. 188 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,320 Maybe that's not fair. Overall, I think that this is a good direction 189 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:19,280 for Google to be going with their tablets. I think that they tried the sort of like, 190 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,520 oh, we're doing our own version of an iPad Pro, 191 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:27,480 but it's not gonna be running Android. It's gonna be running Chrome OS. And the response has been clear every time 192 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:32,460 that like, if Google's gonna make a tablet, the only one that people are really gonna accept 193 00:14:32,460 --> 00:14:38,240 is like a basic one that's not trying to do anything too crazy. 194 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:43,920 This, you could argue that this is a little bit crazy, but you could also argue that it makes a whole lot of sense 195 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:47,600 given that one of their most popular categories of devices, 196 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,520 especially in recent years, has been their Nest Hub home displays. 197 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,860 And now it's basically a better Nest Hub home display 198 00:14:54,860 --> 00:14:59,080 that with the tablet you can take off and play around with. So I like it. 199 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,220 I want them to continue on this. 200 00:15:02,220 --> 00:15:06,880 And I mean, the most important thing is that they just don't kill the product. 201 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:12,960 And the most important thing for you is that I thank you for watching this whole video. 202 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,400 If you wanna watch more videos, ShortCircuit is a YouTube channel. 203 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:17,400 They make lots.