WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 Ooh, the last time I covered a Google made tablet 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:11.360 was 2018 with the Pixel Slate. It was a Chrome OS powered tablet 00:00:11.360 --> 00:00:18.200 that had amazing speakers. But the rest of it sucked so hard, it flopped so bad 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:21.720 Google didn't make another tablet for five years. 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:28.340 Fast forward five years and here we are with the new Google Pixel tablet. 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 00:00:34.860 --> 00:00:38.780 to a lot of the other tablets that we see out on the market these days 00:00:38.780 --> 00:00:42.980 because in the box is one of these, 00:00:42.980 --> 00:00:46.180 which is the charging speaker dock, 00:00:46.180 --> 00:00:49.620 which comes with the Pixel tablet by default. 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 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 00:00:58.380 --> 00:01:00.980 that this thing is not going to replace your laptop. 00:01:01.940 --> 00:01:06.320 We got a power adapter. Oh, that's not super long. 00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:09.860 I am disappointed to see that we're still using barrel chargers for stuff like this. 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. 00:01:15.420 --> 00:01:19.580 Let's get started. Press and hold the power button. I need to know that. 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? 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 00:01:27.500 --> 00:01:31.220 because will it attach the magnets? Yes. Camera on the top there. 00:01:31.220 --> 00:01:35.220 So this is the top. Okay, on this side, we have volume rocker. 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. 00:01:39.340 --> 00:01:42.340 Power button with an integrated fingerprint reader 00:01:42.340 --> 00:01:47.140 if I'm not mistaken. We got two mics, I guess, on the top as well. 00:01:47.140 --> 00:01:50.140 We got, okay, two speakers. 00:01:50.140 --> 00:01:54.020 And I guess another mic. On this side, we have, 00:01:54.020 --> 00:01:58.940 these are like rubberized stompers. We can call them stompers. 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. 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. 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 00:02:16.780 --> 00:02:20.060 with a 2560 by 1600 resolution. 00:02:20.060 --> 00:02:23.640 That is 276 pixels per inch. 00:02:23.640 --> 00:02:27.960 An eight megapixel camera on the front here and another eight megapixel camera on the back, 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:32.760 although it's bigger. This color is porcelain and it comes in two other colors, 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. 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:42.840 The charging dock itself is good weight, good for juggling. 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 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. 00:02:54.500 --> 00:02:58.420 There's a speaker in there and there's also speakers in here, as I said. 00:02:58.420 --> 00:03:01.700 One thing that I haven't mentioned is that it does have the Tensor G2, 00:03:01.700 --> 00:03:05.060 the same chip that is powering the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro 00:03:05.060 --> 00:03:09.380 inside this thing, which means that we should have some pretty good hardware 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. 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. 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, 00:03:24.700 --> 00:03:28.700 but I mean, if I'm not looking and I just do this 00:03:28.700 --> 00:03:31.940 or you could slide down, ooh, that was very satisfying. 00:03:31.940 --> 00:03:37.340 Being the first tablet that Google has made as a first-party device in five years, 00:03:37.340 --> 00:03:42.340 it also represents the arrival of Google's new tablet-focused, 00:03:43.100 --> 00:03:48.300 tablet-optimized Android experience. It's finally time to have our apps 00:03:48.300 --> 00:03:51.660 be a little bit more optimized for larger screens 00:03:51.660 --> 00:03:55.340 on our quote-unquote mobile operating systems. 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, 00:03:59.020 --> 00:04:02.300 it says that it's supposed to be capable of 500 nits. 00:04:02.300 --> 00:04:06.580 That's very bright and on the camera view. But according to Labs, 00:04:06.580 --> 00:04:09.620 they actually registered it going up to 550 nits, 00:04:09.620 --> 00:04:13.420 which is very, very impressive for a tablet that's supposed to remain indoors. 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. 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. 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. 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 00:04:33.900 --> 00:04:37.100 instead of like something that you're going to really use for work. 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 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. 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, 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. 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. 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 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, 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. 00:05:17.220 --> 00:05:20.580 Although it's not a app that's optimized for tablet 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 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. 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. 00:05:34.700 --> 00:05:38.020 That's Max. 00:05:38.020 --> 00:05:40.620 I'm gonna pull it back a little bit. That's pretty loud. 00:05:46.460 --> 00:05:47.460 That's pretty good. 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, 00:05:58.500 --> 00:06:02.020 does not sound good on the table. Like I said in the intro, 00:06:02.020 --> 00:06:05.420 the Pixel Slate speakers blew me away. 00:06:05.420 --> 00:06:10.100 This is not as good. However, you can get even more power. 00:06:16.540 --> 00:06:22.620 I actually don't like it as much on the stand. 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. 00:06:33.820 --> 00:06:37.020 After my extensive scientific testing process, 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. 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 00:06:46.340 --> 00:06:50.060 when you attach it to the dock. But now I'm really sad 00:06:50.060 --> 00:06:53.980 because that could potentially fix the issue 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, 00:06:59.620 --> 00:07:03.420 again, maybe would fix that problem. I don't know. I don't make tablets. 00:07:03.420 --> 00:07:07.300 I just make fun of them. Overall sound impressions are really good. 00:07:07.300 --> 00:07:10.580 I'm impressed with the sound from the tablet itself, 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. 00:07:16.420 --> 00:07:21.740 And I realized there's no headphone jack. USB-C or Bluetooth earbuds only. 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, 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. 00:07:32.820 --> 00:07:38.860 You'll use the video calling app that Google has not killed yet. 00:07:38.860 --> 00:07:42.820 Hey, grandma, I'm just trying to make your recipe 00:07:42.820 --> 00:07:47.060 that you gave me for chocolate muffins, but I'm out of chocolate. 00:07:47.060 --> 00:07:50.660 Is there something I could use instead? Raisins? 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:53.820 Yeah, this is a max volume. 00:07:55.620 --> 00:07:56.940 That's not very loud. 00:07:59.500 --> 00:08:02.940 And that's max volume on the charging dock. 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 00:08:07.740 --> 00:08:11.940 on this thing might be pretty weak. What are you gonna take a selfie photo with? 00:08:12.100 --> 00:08:13.740 I mean, it seems to look better. 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 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, 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. 00:08:32.940 --> 00:08:36.860 Let's take some video. Raise the roof. 00:08:36.860 --> 00:08:39.820 Lots of noise, lots of artifacting. 00:08:40.780 --> 00:08:44.260 Over here with the more well-lit stuff. 00:08:44.260 --> 00:08:48.140 Still. That's not amazing. So it's eight megapixels. 00:08:48.140 --> 00:08:52.060 The cameras don't seem that good. Frankly, I think this actually is below the line 00:08:52.060 --> 00:08:56.660 of what I would consider acceptable for a Google-made device. 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 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, 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:08.580 oh, maybe something's happening in your house. Your kid is doing something cool 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, 00:09:12.300 --> 00:09:16.740 however, it might redeem itself with the performance. 00:09:16.740 --> 00:09:20.980 So let's take a look. Labs did testing. So according to the Labs testing, 00:09:20.980 --> 00:09:24.300 the Tensor G2 and the Pixel tablet performs 00:09:24.300 --> 00:09:29.940 about on par with the Pixel 7 Pro, which has the same processor, dolphin emulator. 00:09:29.940 --> 00:09:35.100 We got a little bit more. Genshin is less, actually, 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, 00:09:41.500 --> 00:09:45.100 which is interesting to see. There's more room for activities in there. 00:09:45.100 --> 00:09:49.780 In our non-gaming tests, it's a similar situation in 3D Mark Wildlife Extreme 00:09:49.780 --> 00:09:54.100 is slight bump, but in app launches, there's actually a bit of a, 00:09:54.100 --> 00:09:58.500 what's the opposite of a bump? A dent. A dent across the board. 00:09:58.500 --> 00:10:01.620 In our battery tests with data courtesy of the lab, 00:10:01.620 --> 00:10:06.220 we've got some pretty impressive results. The Pixel tablet matched the Pixel 7a 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, 00:10:11.540 --> 00:10:15.500 which was playing YouTube videos at 720p and 50% brightness. 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. 00:10:19.980 --> 00:10:25.500 So just be aware, but still very impressive. The Pixel tablet also lasted 4.15 hours 00:10:25.500 --> 00:10:29.540 in our stress test, which was quite impressive compared to the other phones we've tested, 00:10:29.540 --> 00:10:32.980 which makes sense since the Pixel tablet has a 7,000 milliamp hour battery, 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 00:10:36.340 --> 00:10:39.500 to 48% battery in an hour, which isn't too bad, 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, 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. 00:10:49.380 --> 00:10:54.780 When it comes to display testing, Labs found that overall, the display is pretty good. 00:10:54.780 --> 00:10:57.940 As I said, it measures at 550 nits, 00:10:57.940 --> 00:11:01.420 which is above its rated 500 nits. And for color accuracy, 00:11:01.420 --> 00:11:04.620 it hits about a 98% sRGB rating, 00:11:04.620 --> 00:11:08.580 which is pretty good, but not HDR level. 00:11:08.580 --> 00:11:11.640 For connectivity, it doesn't have the most cutting edge standards. 00:11:11.640 --> 00:11:15.140 It's got Wi-Fi 6 instead of 6E or 7, 00:11:15.140 --> 00:11:19.020 and it's Bluetooth 5.2. It'll do you fine for what you're doing. 00:11:19.020 --> 00:11:23.540 But it is the first tablet made by Google 00:11:23.540 --> 00:11:27.460 that supports Chromecast as a receiving device. 00:11:27.460 --> 00:11:31.400 So you can cast stuff from another device 00:11:31.400 --> 00:11:35.660 to your Pixel tablet. Another thing I want to note is that 00:11:35.660 --> 00:11:42.000 because this is using Google's, you know, new optimized tablet-esque form of Android, 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, 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:51.100 like a la iPadOS or MacOS. 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 00:11:56.980 --> 00:12:00.640 is to use it in a way that you can do on iPadOS, 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, 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. 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. 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, 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, 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, 00:12:31.280 --> 00:12:35.120 but you can buy another one for $130. 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 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:44.120 in another area of your room, so you can like pick up the tablet, 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:48.720 you know, walk into the next room, glued to your screen, like a doom scroller, 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:52.240 and walk into your other room where there's another charging dock, 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.320 and place it down there. $130 for that convenience, though? 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:59.440 That's a hard sell. But the whole package with the charging dock 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:06.940 and the tablet is $499, which I would say, especially in today's economy, 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:11.720 is a little steep for essentially a glorified nest hub. 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. 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:19.280 You're not gonna be using it for like work as well. 00:13:19.280 --> 00:13:24.280 It's pretty much just a play and like home helping tablet. 00:13:25.280 --> 00:13:29.120 Although, if this thing's worth $130, 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:32.880 that means the tablet is only 370. 00:13:32.880 --> 00:13:36.320 If you're looking for a pretty good tablet at the lower end of the range, 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:39.600 Apple's ninth gen iPad, which I think is the least powerful one 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:44.520 that they sell now is 329, which is even cheaper than 370, 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. 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, 00:13:56.560 --> 00:14:00.320 which is really kind of the bottom current gen iPad that Apple offers. 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:04.000 So like, it's got the speaker, yes, but I can guarantee you 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:07.160 there's gonna be some jank with this. It's not an iPad. 00:14:07.160 --> 00:14:11.000 I feel like I've liked Apple a bit more recently. 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:14.320 Maybe that's not fair. Overall, I think that this is a good direction 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, 00:14:19.280 --> 00:14:22.520 oh, we're doing our own version of an iPad Pro, 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 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 00:14:32.460 --> 00:14:38.240 is like a basic one that's not trying to do anything too crazy. 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 00:14:43.920 --> 00:14:47.600 given that one of their most popular categories of devices, 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:51.520 especially in recent years, has been their Nest Hub home displays. 00:14:51.520 --> 00:14:54.860 And now it's basically a better Nest Hub home display 00:14:54.860 --> 00:14:59.080 that with the tablet you can take off and play around with. So I like it. 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:02.220 I want them to continue on this. 00:15:02.220 --> 00:15:06.880 And I mean, the most important thing is that they just don't kill the product. 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. 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:16.400 If you wanna watch more videos, ShortCircuit is a YouTube channel. 00:15:16.400 --> 00:15:17.400 They make lots.