Yesterday Android Headlines reported that Google had canceled its improvement of the Pixel Tablet 3 — adjacent earlier announcing a second-gen model. Well, contiguous Android Authority is saying that it’s successful information the second-generation Pixel Tablet that has been canned, meaning that the instrumentality released past year volition seemingly beryllium a one-off and that Google is bailing connected the tablet class for the 2nd clip successful a small implicit 5 years. At best, we’re successful for a agelong intermission until the adjacent one.
If true, the quality would suggest that income of the Pixel Tablet person been truthful mediocre that Google has decided further concern successful a follow-up conscionable isn’t worthy it. As precocious arsenic past week, determination were rumors of caller features and a keyboard accessory for the now-abandoned product.
It’s worthy noting the anticipation that Google’s Nest part volition instrumentality implicit its large-screen merchandise ambitions and absorption connected devices similar the Nest Hub and Hub Max alternatively of standalone tablets.
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Helped successful nary portion by its on-again, off-again strategy, Google has ever struggled to meaningfully interruption into the tablet marketplace and nutrient a contender susceptible of rivaling Apple’s iPad successful income and mainstream success. It got disconnected to a promising commencement ages agone with the Nexus 7, but ne'er truly enactment up overmuch of a combat aft that — adjacent if the hardware was nice. Android severely lags iPadOS successful the fig of third-party apps that are optimized for tablets, different contented that has held backmost Google’s efforts. The institution originally said it was done making tablets successful 2019 aft its Pixel Slate received overwhelmingly antagonistic reviews.
But by 2022, Google changed its caput and announced that its Pixel hardware squad was moving connected a tablet. That instrumentality yet became the $499 Pixel Tablet, which shipped with a talker dock that the tablet could magnetically connect to. (Google would aboriginal offer the tablet by itself for $399.)
The Verge has reached retired to Google for remark and clarification connected its tablet plans.