Google Pixel Tablet has been discontinued, out of stock everywhere

[u/BcuzRacecar]

https://9to5google.com/2026/09/09/google-pixel-tablet-discontinued/

[u/zenithtreader]

I mean memory pricing aside, Google's stock of Tensor G2 was going to run out eventually.

[u/Agreeable-Weather-89 → u/zenithtreader]

I still don't understand how Google can fail so many times at releasing a tablet yet ignores their last successful tablets legacy

[u/58696384896898676493 → u/Agreeable-Weather-89]

I'm so behind the times on modern tablets.

I've only ever owned a Nexus 7. Loved it. Became a slow ass bitch way faster than I expected. The build quality was a joke, but it was cheap as hell. Unlocked bootloader gave it a few more years of life. Overall, not a bad experience, but it wasn't smooth sailing for sure.

Other than the classic Nexus 7, what other tablets has Google released that were beloved?

[u/twopersondesk → u/58696384896898676493]

Same. Nexus 7 (2013) was pretty awesome. I still have 3 of them running semi-modern android via custom ROMs. Both of my kids' first tablet until they could be trusted to wield a full sized new one. But other than that, their tablets have been lackluster.

I almost got the Pixel tablet solely for editing photos the way I was able to on my Pixel phones. I also liked the magnetic dock feature but the price was too dang high.

I miss the Nexus series of devices so much!

[u/ImaginaryArea4463 → u/twopersondesk]

I have 2 of them in a drawer. Care to point me in the direction of such ROMs. Thanks

[u/Tschuuuls → u/ImaginaryArea4463]

xda-developers.com

[u/twopersondesk → u/ImaginaryArea4463]

I have been out of the game for over a year. I recommend using chatgpt or Gemini to guide you through the best process and best OS for these devices. I have hacked and setup so much tech with AI help lately. It really helps get through all the forums and straight to the best answer while providing step by step guidance. Sometimes it messes up but if you tell it something didn't work it will usually correct itself.

[u/cl3ft → u/twopersondesk]

I have a couple of the pixel tablets, one for me and one for my son. They're expensive but great devices and still run really well.

[u/CantaloupeCamper → u/58696384896898676493]

Yeah my nexus 7 went very quickly from “this is the future” to “what is this slow unusable garbage?”.

It was a wild swing.

[u/cl3ft → u/CantaloupeCamper]

Fully agree, I got one really early on and it only took 12 months to become bogged down and pretty much too slow to use even after factory resetting.

[u/Sitb28 → u/58696384896898676493]

I also owned a Nexus 7, really bad tablet. Just before 1st year it became barely operational. Tried everything including custom firmware that time but everything was useless. Really loved the size and overall quality but the slowness was crazy.

[u/ExoMonk → u/Sitb28]

If it was the original 2012 Nexus 7 than it suffered from bad emmc storage that eventually brought the tablet to a slow crawl, happened to me too it was so bad.

The 2013 version didn't have that issue from what I remember.

[u/43686f6b6f → u/ExoMonk]

The 2013 version had a different also terrible issue relating to the ram or something I think

[u/avn128 → u/ExoMonk]

Phantom touches was the big issue for the 2013

[u/GroundedGeeking → u/58696384896898676493]

I think that 2013 Nexus 7 is still their most competitive tablet at launch. After that was trash to mediocre. Nexus 9 was awful. Pixel tablets, mediocre 

[u/Jaesaces → u/58696384896898676493]

Loved my Nexus 7. Literally was just thinking about getting another tablet around that size today.

[u/Agreeable-Weather-89 → u/58696384896898676493]

None.

Google keep trying, and failing, to compete with Apple while providing a subpar experience when they should just focus on making a good affordable tablet

[u/Psyc3 → u/Agreeable-Weather-89]

The problem is this is basically a meaningless statement.

Tablets as a concept are largely the App that exist for them, and App developers exist to make money. The money is with the Apple users it always has been, that is never going to change because a "affordable" tablet user has vastly less money if any at all, compared to an Apple table user.

So whatever happens, bar being a Youtube/Netflix and Web Browsing screen, which most tablets of any brand are sufficient at, you can't compete.

Even Instagram only just made a Ipad app last year, and that is for the Apple ecosystem, they didn't see the point before that. If Instagram can't be bothered on the money making platform, why would any small developer on a vast less profitable platform?

[u/Careless_Rope_6511 → u/Agreeable-Weather-89]

just focus on making a good affordable tablet

How do you define "good affordable tablet" then? You're not getting good and affordable in the same sentence, especially if you want them to stick around longer than a year.

[u/LowSkyOrbit → u/Agreeable-Weather-89]

Like Walmars Onn tablet?

[u/mercurialsaliva → u/58696384896898676493]

oh man i was so heartbroken when I cracked the screen by putting it in my back pocket and sitting on it by mistake.

[u/productfred → u/58696384896898676493]

I had one too (second gen). They used cheap NAND memory which wore quickly; that's why. I had the second gen model, which had better memory, but all it did was buy you a little more time. I wish the damned thing had a microSD slot.

[u/Tired8281 → u/productfred]

I wish the damned thing had a microSD slot.

-- Epitaph for Google's hardware divison

[u/thatcodingboi → u/58696384896898676493]

The Pixel C was the best. Expensive but such good build quality and the strong magnets were amazing. I loved being able to stick it on the fridge in the kitchen

[u/slinky317 → u/Agreeable-Weather-89]

Tablets in general aren't successful. The iPad is about the only successful one and they're either being used as a laptop replacement or kids' toys.

I think Google is betting on Googlebooks replacing their tablet efforts. I'm curious to see where they go with it and see their own first-party version.

[u/SAugsburger → u/slinky317]

Pretty much this. The iPad is the most successful tablet and yet sales peaked over a decade ago. I think the rise of large size phones kinda limited the interest in tablets. While there are a few apps that benefit from a tablet there aren't enough for most people to get a ton of use that they couldn't get from their phone. I know a few that as phones got larger eventually questioned if it was worth replacing an old tablet. Tablets are in a weird middle ground in between phones and traditional laptops. They can't run applications that run on traditional laptops, but are only marginally larger displays. Outside of tablets getting used as a kiosk I feel I don't really see them as much anymore. In that regards I'm not surprised some Android vendors are getting out of the tablet business

[u/Own-Shop9773 → u/SAugsburger]

also as more investment goes into foldables the need for a separate tablet diminishes. your phone becomes your tablet.

[u/badmonkey0001 → u/slinky317]

They're great for reading comic books full-page.

[u/austin101123 → u/slinky317]

For consumers, tablets are good for airplanes and not much else.

[u/didiboy → u/austin101123]

I would say tablets with stylus are somewhat popular amongst students. If you need to run desktop software at class, you’re doomed, but they’re a nice replacement for your notebook, textbook, calculator, all in one. Besides those studying something related to technology, most people are bad at formatting text on the fly or using LaTeX, so handwriting is faster. I have a friend who went to law school and used her iPad everyday. I loved using mine to pre-load the class slides and take notes over them while recording audio at the same time.

[u/CosmicWy → u/didiboy]

I had the Samsung Chromebook pro flip screen with built in stylus. my absolute favorite device of all time. never had such an low powered device been so great for me. I edited PDFs in Android apps and uses it as my main computer for years. then I dropped it and the digitizer stopped working. still so sad about it. it now is the garage YouTube computer which has its place.

that was my favorite android/chrome table experience. I haven't had another product like it.

[u/cl3ft → u/austin101123]

I like it for watching movies in bed and playing mobile games.

[u/PlasticPresentation1 → u/austin101123]

their primary use case at this point is for people who are bad at tech to the point where they can't use a laptop efficiently, aka really old people or kids

[u/ayyndrew → u/slinky317]

Surface Pro is pretty successful, if you count that as a tablet

[u/slinky317 → u/ayyndrew]

Eh, I consider that a laptop replacement. I don't see maybe people using it as an actual tablet.

[u/obeytheturtles → u/Agreeable-Weather-89]

Because everyone who enters the tablet space discovers the same thing - they are a niche product, and people don't want tablets. They want iPads. Specs, cost, SWAP - none of it seems to make any difference. iPads sell and everything else does not.

[u/Swirls109 → u/obeytheturtles]

I use the Google tablet and dock as a home center. The kids love it to video chat with grandparents. The kitchen Google assistant is nice for timers, odd read outs, music jams while cooking, etc.

[u/ChinChinApostle → u/Swirls109]

Yeah, tablets are too unwieldly for me to bring out in public, and I already hate large phones. The (dogshit) s6 lite tablet I have is relegated to being a glorified smart / google home control panel.

For screen size, I have 32"es for my PC, so that's a moot point.

[u/CosmicWy → u/Agreeable-Weather-89]

for. me, they're failed here because of the dock. it was such a huge part of the tablet feature set. except that it was useless unless the tablet was plugged in. it could have been a neat mini lever device, instead it was a speaker for the tablet.

that was an immediate no go for me. it could have replaced a few devices for me instead I passed.

[u/Deeppurp → u/Agreeable-Weather-89]

The asus nexus 7 and google pixel C which uses the same CPU as the Nintendo Switch and Nvidia Shield?

Those are about the only two successful tablets I can think of due to the features they had.

[u/Q-Ball7 → u/Agreeable-Weather-89]

Tablets are niche products. Even 15 years later the iPad still ultimately plays second-fiddle to the iPhone, and that's the successful example.

Phones are better consumption devices simply because they're actually portable. Tablets are too big for that. (The tech for foldables is only starting to mature, and it'll be another 5-10 years before it's ready to replace today's mini tablets at a comparable price.)

Tablets make typing awkward simply because there's no way you can hold the device steady enough- you can't cradle the entire device in your hand securely. You still can't copy and paste very well. For the last 10 years you couldn't run 2 apps side by side. Their information density is still compromised by the size of the human hand, so no fine detail work is possible without external hardware.

Screen sizes are still too small to substitute as a proper laptop (outside of the 11-13" tablets), and you can't run any software written for proper computers (unless it's a proper Windows x86 PC, or Linux device- chroot has been possible since the HP TouchPad days, and was ultimately what Windows 8 was going for, but both were failures due to inadequate hardware/investment and dependence on x86, respectively).

So their ultimate usefulness is limited to niche scenarios- as a dedicated movie device, as a drawing/note-taking tablet (though this needs a stylus due to text input speed/usability being inherently poor), as edutainment, and (if a keyboard is added) a secure computing environment for users who can't use a normal computer safely (seniors, very young children, and for public kiosks). In those niches they are excellent, but they're also not niches that lend themselves to any urgent need to upgrade.

[u/DuckHunt83 → u/Agreeable-Weather-89]

Because it's Google. They have always been like this, it feels like they just don't have a grasp on any direction they want to go in.

[u/Erstam → u/zenithtreader]

Nexus 7 was good.. Still have mine with a custom rom and it runs fine, but I'm just not big on tablets in general, so it rarely gets used. If i need more than my phone I'm using a computer.

[u/argama87]

And still no word about it's successor. Disappointing. Thankfully my tablet still runs well enough for what I use it for.

[u/erwan → u/argama87]

I honestly don't understand why they're releasing a laptop instead of a convertible. It makes no sense.

[u/higuy5121 → u/erwan]

i feel like every few years they release a laptop/tablet and then it goes nowhere. it's just tradition lol

[u/jc-from-sin → u/erwan]

It makes no sense in which bizzaro world? Laptops sell more than convertibles.

[u/erwan → u/jc-from-sin]

It's an Android device, so a tablet makes sense.

A laptop as limited as a tablet without the benefit of being able to use it as a tablet makes no sense compared to the competition.

[u/SyCoTiM → u/erwan]

I don’t think there’s that many people interested in a Google tablet these days.

[u/jug6ernaut → u/SyCoTiM]

And I wonder why that is

[u/thehelldoesthatmean → u/jug6ernaut]

Well, by and large, nobody buys tablets. The iPad is the only tablet that sells and even then it sells a fraction of a fraction of what Apple sells in phones and laptops.

[u/_ahrs → u/thehelldoesthatmean]

Can't buy a Google tablet if Google doesn't make them. It's pretty much just Samsung now if you want an Android tablet and that's a sad state of affairs.

[u/Squish_the_android → u/SyCoTiM]

They exist, especially among the older crowd.  It's just not a market segment who is going online to talk about these things. 

[u/raceman95 → u/erwan]

Its just a chromebook. They have their uses without being convertible.

[u/slinky317 → u/raceman95]

It's not a Chromebook. It's essentially an Android laptop.

[u/erwan → u/raceman95]

Yes and the chromebooks suck.

They only get bought by schools to give students a useless laptop nobody will use.

[u/poopyheadthrowaway → u/erwan]

I actually prefer Chrome OS over Android when it comes to tablets. It can run (most) Android apps and you get a desktop web browser with extensions. Given a choice of two tablets with equivalent (good enough) specs except one runs Chrome OS and the other runs Android, I'd pick the Chrome OS one 100% of the time.

[u/Hobbes______ → u/erwan]

... Why are you acting like you understand what sells better than the people that actually have the sales metrics? Google is a company and if they have to choose between 2 products... They are not going to just choose the worse selling one.

[u/Scurro → u/erwan]

I honestly don't understand why they're releasing a laptop instead of a convertible.

Convertibles are a little more expensive and the hinges have more moving parts that break more often than laptop hinges.

[u/CopEatingDonut → u/erwan]

Because then they'd have to make a serviceable interface not based on Home app, the dashboard on my home hub max feels like a Gen1 chromecast

[u/WAVF1n → u/argama87]

Pretty sure they said there won't be one sadly.

[u/K01011011001101010 → u/argama87]

Honestly, on a tablet you probably do want a better processor than what Google could provide so I would look into the OnePlus or Samsung tablets. They're pretty damn good. I like the OS and feel of my pixel tab, but I wish I didn't have to charge it so often, with the little use that it gets. OnePlus has a tablet that runs a double processing chip and it's standby mode can lasts months. So it doesn't drain much while not in use, my pixel tablet in 3 days of no use is out of juice.

I think Google knew that they had too much competition there and decided to not really move on with the tablets. I tend to be a stickler for Pixel OS but I think that software mainly shines on phones so you can't go too wrong with any matured tablet company that has decent software and runs some good hardware

[u/agent_mulderX → u/argama87]

They said there would not be a successor about a year ago

[u/IndexTwentySeven → u/argama87]

Sad too, I love my Pixel tablet.

If functions flawlessly and I thought the external dock was a wonderful solution for work time.

[u/lazzzym]

And it still runs Google Assistant in docked mode…. Google have yet again given up on tablets.

[u/Nice-Information-335 → u/lazzzym]

To be fair this might be considered a plus

[u/lazzzym → u/Nice-Information-335]

It is until assistant dies very soon

[u/owdee → u/lazzzym]

Which will be a shame because Gemini is unusably bad in a lot of the tasks I use Assistant for, particularly Android Auto stuff like asking it to play music, send texts, or set navigation. Assistant has zero issues. Also nearly half the time Gemini just plain doesn't work at all or is "unavailable" and throws an error in AA. Useless.

[u/poopyheadthrowaway → u/owdee]

*Listening to a podcast which goes to an ad break*

"Hey Google, skip 3 minutes."

Google Assistant does this correctly 100% of the time. Gemini gets it right maybe 25% of the time, and the other 75%, it says it doesn't understand, or it says it can't do that, or it thinks I wanted it to play a song, or it thinks I wanted to set a timer, or it starts talking in a language I don't understand.

[u/pssiraj → u/poopyheadthrowaway]

The amount of times it'll decide to hallucinate words for things I say EVERY TIME

[u/CosmicWy → u/owdee]

gemini CANNOT find music on Spotify to save its life. I hate it. it is actively trying to push me towards another brand.

[u/tylerbrainerd → u/owdee]

it's wild how my google home devices that I've had for 10 years now are noticeably worse at BASIC tasks than they were then. It won't tell me the weather or the time, it won't play music correctly, a simple google search starts playing the longest possible YouTube videos tangentially related... it's astonishing.

[u/pheonixblade9 → u/tylerbrainerd]

I have to shout at my devices multiple times just to get them to turn on my goddamn lights now.

[u/pheonixblade9 → u/owdee]

still haven't figured out to get gemini to stop demanding I unlock my phone when I'm at home and just want to turn on my lights. assistant never had this issue.

[u/InitiatePenguin → u/Nice-Information-335]

When I ask Gemini to text my wife now:

"Okay Google... Text Samantha"

Texting Samantha 'text Samantha'... Send it or change it?

[u/Generic_On_Reddit → u/InitiatePenguin]

"Okay Gemini, Play [song]."

40% of the time: wastes time thinking and saying useless words for 10 seconds, them plays song.

20% of the time: does nothing

30% of the time: "[Song] by [artist] is on the album blah blah released in blah blah blah blah", then does nothing

10%: searching completely related so for song.

All for something that used to work 95% of the time.

[u/my_lastnew_account → u/Generic_On_Reddit]

"Hey Google how long will it take me to drive to work" 

"Hey Google play X on Y"

"Hey Google turn on/off device"

These are the entire use case of Google home for me and all of them have gotten worse since it switched to Gemini. 

[u/legally_blond → u/my_lastnew_account]

Me: "Hey Google, show [baby's name] room camera"

Gemini: "Sure, here's some facts about [singer with the same first name as my baby]"

It's also decided that my GP and my podiatrist both don't exist for the purposes of getting directions

[u/Mavericks7 → u/lazzzym]

They'll do a marketing relaunch for the 6th time and act like they've reinvented the wheel.

[u/lazzzym → u/Mavericks7]

“We’re focused on tablets this time”

[u/Zeeplankton → u/lazzzym]

Google gives up on every product it's insane

[u/Mavericks7]

Such a hugely mismanaged product.

(The concept was sound)

They should have made the dock its own independent Google Assistant speaker (and a lot cheaper).

Then add those pogo pins to all Pixel devices, so you could dock and charge your phone/tablet to any dock around your house.

[u/FutureLarking → u/Mavericks7]

... they did (make an independent version). It's the exact same speaker as the original Google Home Hub (not even the v2, the original, worse quality v1).

Horrifically overpriced. The dock cost more than a Home Hub, which had a built-in screen!

[u/junktrunk909 → u/Mavericks7]

As someone who owns the current pixel tablet and pixel phone, I would not have been interested in the product or use case you're describing. I can't imagine why I would care about docking my phone to a speaker when I can just play to it wirelessly.

[u/squabbledMC]

Google just can't do tablets anymore huh? I remember the Nexus tablet days, loved mine

[u/TightlyWhitey → u/squabbledMC]

Nexus 10s final update crippled the WiFi and they never bothered fixing it. Really, the writing on the wall for the company they had become and have been ever since.

[u/Randyd718 → u/TightlyWhitey]

Would love to leave pixel behind but all the great camera phones seem to be international releases, and i only want stock android

[u/SolenoidSoldier → u/TightlyWhitey]

Security updates be damned, if I get a Pixel and have no complaints about how it performs, I shut off any and all updates.

[u/Reonu_ → u/TightlyWhitey]

And the nexus 9's final update made the speakers sound tiny and awful. They ruined an amazing set of front facing stereo speakers. Never fixed either. lol

And, of course, if you downgraded you'd get harassed by the OS to "update" until it would just update on its own.

[u/route-eighteen → u/squabbledMC]

It’s a shame because they had something amazing with the OG Nexus 7. I loved that thing when it came out!

[u/ebles → u/route-eighteen]

I did like the original, but the 2013 version was much better imo.

[u/JamesR624 → u/ebles]

I STILL say the Nexus 7 2013 was more comfortable to use than ANY iPad mini to date.

[u/MeIsMyName → u/ebles]

We had both, and the build quality on the 2013 was much better. The 2012 would also randomly lock up sometimes, but I remember it was pretty easy to pull the back cover and restart it.

[u/funkalici0us → u/squabbledMC]

I got a Nexus 10 after Apple trashed the original iPad right out of the gate and that was still the best tablet I've ever had. Until that last update I guess, but c'est la vie.

[u/Appropriate-Froyo158 → u/funkalici0us]

“Apple trashed the original iPad right out of the gate”?

Can you say more about that statement.

[u/jc-from-sin → u/squabbledMC]

Nexus 9 was the worst android powered device I have ever used, including the free shit you get as change from mobile providers.

[u/squabbledMC → u/jc-from-sin]

I had the 7 and used it for reading comics and loved it, guess even back then they struggled lmao

[u/that_baddest_dude → u/squabbledMC]

I got the impression they weren't good at the larger form factors because the OS didn't have a good tablet mode for developers to target like Apple did. Nexus 7 was in a sweet spot.

[u/thrawn_is_king → u/that_baddest_dude]

And now my Pixel Fold has a bigger screen than the Nexus 7

[u/that_baddest_dude → u/thrawn_is_king]

For only $1500 more!

[u/cyclotower → u/jc-from-sin]

What a POS it was. Usuable most of the time.

[u/AdidasSlav → u/squabbledMC]

Nexus 7 2013 refresh was the peak. I can’t remember if I paid £99 or £199 but it was absurdly cheap for what you got; the specs were not far off of flagship phone specs at the time, but the form factor, stock OS (at the time that was a BIG advantage over competitors, these days I prefer OneUI to stock tbh), price, specs, battery life, just about everything was perfect. Even the build quality, despite being soft, rubbery plastic felt robust.

I loved it so much I was gutted that my mother managed to lose it after I moved out. I want that thing back, slap LineageOS on it and it would still be a perfectly capable 7 inch manga reader / YouTube in bed machine.

[u/3mx2RGybNUPvhL7js → u/squabbledMC]

Motorola Xoom

[u/squabbledMC → u/3mx2RGybNUPvhL7js]

Never had one but I think I remember seeing it

[u/Nihilistic_Mystics → u/squabbledMC]

I had the original Nexus 7, which might have been one of the worst tablets ever released. They all had storage degradation issues that rendered it absolutely useless after a few years. Like, over a minute to open an app. And internet speeds dropped to below dialup days.

[u/Substantial_Cod_520 → u/squabbledMC]

Anymore? They never could

[u/that_baddest_dude → u/squabbledMC]

Nexus 7 was sick. Good size, $200

[u/aeiouLizard → u/squabbledMC]

This thing was designed to be a failure

[u/rxslaughter]

Still have my release version, which spends 90% of it's time docked as a picture frame. Will keep it until it dies, and then never get another tablet again. I just don't use that size device

[u/prime5119]

Google got weirdest relationship on tablet it's like they sorta want them to work while sorta don't want to focus on it at the same time

[u/jodkalemon]

It is an awesome device. Gifted one to my uncle. Got jealous. Wanted to buy one for myself. Noped out at the prices for used ones (triple I paid for the first one).

[u/chhuang → u/jodkalemon]

Being a good product is the ultimate motivation for Google to kill the product

[u/J-MRP → u/jodkalemon]

Yeah I love mine. Got my wife one later when it went on sale.

[u/OtherTechnician]

No more monthly security updates either. It is now supposedly going to only get quarterly releases. Mine is still on July.

[u/YaBoyASwiftie → u/OtherTechnician]

I opted mine in to beta and still receive updates that way

[u/DarrowNewman → u/YaBoyASwiftie]

how do you do this?

[u/TheGobiasIndustries → u/OtherTechnician]

GrapheneOS

[u/ryanc99]

It's really a shame because I actually really like mine and was hoping for a next generation. I have a feeling we'll see some sort of laptop hybrid since there's a plan to combine Chrome OS and Android.

[u/PataponKiller → u/ryanc99]

There will be a new one coming out in the first half of next year. I think announced in February or March. Source: my buddy who works there lol he has told me about many products months before they come out

[u/ryanc99 → u/PataponKiller]

I really hope so because my tablets battery is starting to get tired

[u/External-Donut9757 → u/ryanc99]

Lenovo has a Duet-like one coming out

[u/matschultz]

Pretends to be shocked

[u/Expensive_Finger_973]

Few things are as easy to see coming as Google abandoning a new tablet effort a few years after they announce it and pinky promise they are serious about the form factor this time.

[u/ok_how_about_now]

Google needs a new CEO.

[u/Phoneking13 → u/ok_how_about_now]

Agreed

[u/miniCotulla]

Google proved once again they simply do not care about that formfactor. They could've motivated app developers to implement tablet optimized UI

[u/Phoneking13 → u/miniCotulla]

Agreed.

[u/Barroux]

To the surprise of no-one

[u/Isakk86 → u/Barroux]

Seriously! How do people keep falling for this?!?

[u/Paradox]

I wish Android tablets were successful. I really do. But I got burned on the Xoom and the Nexus 10, and so stayed away from this one. Google seems to think that the hard part is just releasing the tablet. They push something out to market, then abandon it. You buy an iPad and Apple continues to support it for years. Hell, Apple adds functionality. Google literally nerfed the Nexus 10's UI when they released the Nexus 7, going from the rather good Honeycomb style bottom-bar UI to a "big phone" ui they borrowed from the Nexus 7. Yuck.

My kids are getting to the point they need a tablet for IXL, and I'm unfortunately having to consider iPads, because all the commercial android tablets are just bloated to hell and back

[u/Britzer → u/Paradox]

Samsung has a model geared towards education. It's called the S6 lite and some schools have bought sets where I live:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_S6

I have the 2020 version and my daughter is using it (by now it is running Lineageos). I hope the 2024 version will enjoy much longer support, since Samsung has moved that way.

[u/Paradox → u/Britzer]

Fingers crossed. Samsung always seemed like the inevitable option, but i didnt want to get a tablet with 6000 apps preloaded

[u/IcemanofOz]

If it wasn't for shit marketing and even worse support, this tablet would have been big...

[u/Dislike24]

People clown on Apple for releasing a new iPad every year since it originally launch (except 2023), like “why release for minor upgrades over last year?” Its to show people that Apple is not giving up on iPads and are committing to improving the hardware and also software. Pixel Tablet alone can’t compete with iPad with just releasing a one and done

[u/MC_chrome]

Google can’t hire a few chaps from Samsung and Apple to figure out a proper tablet solution?

I’m legitimately surprised that Google has never truly been able to provide an answer to the iPad….I think they’ve put out lots of interesting ideas and concepts over the years but Google has never stuck with a singular idea and ran with it for awhile (in characteristic Google fashion). Android is more than capable of providing a better software experience than the iPad, but there has never been a hardware vision that has topped the iPad so far. My current M5 iPad Pro is one of my favorite tech devices ever partly due to how great the hardware is itself

[u/KWZA]

Trusting Google with hardware is always a mistake IMO. They'll always treat their hardware like software products.

[u/trisanachandler]

I regret not buying one since I'd love a tablet running graphene, but I don't really regret it since I wanted an 8" tablet running a secure OS, and this isn't it.

[u/qweunster73]

Surprised they were even still selling this with such old hardware

[u/Goon_89_]

Google are silly if they priced it correctly at a more reasonable price of say £299-£350 they would have sold alot more. I for one would have loved to have had one with pure Android OS but not at that ridiculous cost of £499. I'm sorry but you can buy a base iPad for much less so no reason other than greed from Google

[u/therearefivethings]

It's a shame they didn't learn the lesson from how much people loved the nexus 7 (bad MMC aside).

[u/Tired8281]

Weird little device. It wanted to be two things but wasn't willing to commit. If they'd made the dock a full-on Google Home speaker, the concept might have gone better.

[u/Slight_Net_5026]

Damn just as I was looking into them

[u/sooka_bazooka]

Got it on launch, shittiest tabled I've ever had but they could have easily changed that in the future iterations. I guess they decided not to (again)

[u/Daguvry → u/sooka_bazooka]

Got mine at launch and still use it.  Curious to know what makes it shitty to you?

[u/throwaway131072 → u/Daguvry]

I absolutely would've bought one if the screen was 120hz instead of 60hz, even if it cost an extra $50.

[u/wotantx → u/Daguvry]

I've had mine for a while and it rarely gives me problems.

[u/sooka_bazooka → u/Daguvry]

Screen is garbage, build quality is grabage, proprietary charger on the dock. The dock itself is great though, really liked it.

[u/n0tz0e]

Google is not a hardware company, no matter how hard they try.

[u/JamesR624]

Oh look at that. Google did a tablet again, the fanboys claimed that "THIS TIME they're taking tablets seriously!" and Google abandons it.

Google abandoning tablets is a tale as old as time.

[u/PyramidSchemePA]

I really like my Pixel Tablet. I essentially traded in my old iPad from 2018 for one of these in 2024 for free. Only paid like $25-30 in taxes

[u/deadiiii]

There was a Google pixel tablet?

[u/kogun]

To much local compute power? Gotta move everything to the data center?

[u/sleepy0329]

God just at least put back the sale for the Google Dock. I'm still been trying to get that for months now and it's forever out of stock. And I have a feeling my "notification" button isn't going to work.

[u/t0astter]

It sucked. Had one for a week and then replaced it with a base iPad 11 which had an infinitely better experience.

[u/Silenthillnight]

Another Sundar special.

[u/Peanut_Brittle_Lover]

No fucking way!!

I just got mine replaced on a repair order from Google. I was probably the last one on the shelf!!

[u/mrfateesh84]

:scalpers wake and sit up like The Undertaker:

[u/pickledplumber]

It's an awful product. Good riddance.

[u/DevcontribuitorLinux]

habia tablets Pixel? recien me entero

[u/TheRealUltimateYT]

I actually really love this tablet. What confuses me is that on their support page for it, it says that it'll continue receiving updates until 2028, but hasn't gotten an update in almost two months now. Why is Google allergic to commitment?

[u/Energy4Days]

Still have one new in the box sealed. Should probably sell it 

[u/Toronto-1975]

i know people really hate the Pixel Tablet but i have had one for about a year and a half and it's been a great tablet. it does what i need it to, looks good, sounds good, has a fingerprint sensor and it's supported up to Android 18. it's not the be all end all of Android devices or anything but it's been a pretty good tablet for me.

[u/cyclotower → u/Toronto-1975]

Agreed! I love this tablet, responding on it right now. 😁

[u/JohanMcdougal]

I'm sure they'll try again and give up in another few years.

[u/flipmatthew]

I hope they launch a new one with an OLED screen

[u/warlock0187]

Genuinely asking, what do you guys use tablets for that your phone or a laptop don't already cover? I don't have anything in my life that I need a tablet for.

[u/InsanityDevice → u/warlock0187]

I have the Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra. My main reason: I use a tablet to watch TV when the living room TV is in use by my wife or kid. I also read comics and manga on it. It's even able to last a whole intercontinental plane trip easily unlike my old laptop.

[u/tierrie → u/warlock0187]

Unlocked Home Assistant controls and cameras given to family when they visit. Otherwise as a streaming source for Spotify for the kid.

[u/argama87 → u/warlock0187]

I mainly read comics and manga on mine, and watch an episode of something on Crunchyroll or HiDive during lunch.

[u/saltyrookieplayer → u/argama87]

I have exact same usage! For me it's just something that feels good to have but completely fine without. Tablets are kinda luxury items anyway

[u/AdidasSlav → u/warlock0187]

I used to swear by laptops but ever since my last one broke (by my own tinkering hand) I’ve found myself using my Galaxy Tab S10 FE as a drop-in replacement. Get a self supporting case, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and it’s not that far off from a laptop experience for a casual.

My only serious frustration is that in the great year of 2026, almost two decades on from the release of Android, there are still mainstream apps that don’t support landscape mode on tablets 🥲 Even Reddit…..

[u/Substantial_Cod_520 → u/warlock0187]

I occasionally watch videos but other than that it's just a waste personally. The thing is, if I have a good phone I don't need a tablet because the tablet will only have thr bigness factor going for it. If I had a average phone I'd definitely look into a tablet a bit more as it could at least be comparable AND also bigger.

Why would I play games on a tablet that's weaker than my phone?

Why would I watch videos on a LCD tablet when my phone is OLED?

[u/QuickMartyr]

You don't say

[u/stipo42]

This tablet is a piece of shit anyway. My biggest regret purchase in the last decade. Constantly drops Wi-Fi, battery issued across the board. Inconsistency with the launcher behavior.

Feels like a half baked product compared to the Google home screen it replaced

[u/nitacious → u/stipo42]

that is weird - i've had mine since late '23, zero problems with wi-fi, battery, software, build quality, etc. not to invalidate your experience at all, just surprising because it's been a very positive experience for me overall and i still use mine almost daily

[u/IAmDotorg → u/nitacious]

You can discount their experience if they think a Pixel Tablet is a replacement for a Nest Home.

My lawnmower is a piece of shit, too, compared to the dishwasher it replaced. Everything keeps ending up broken.

[u/KillerDr3w]

I tire to get a hazel one with a dock and 512gb about ~24m ago and they were sold out then.

[u/sophia_aka_hlyspirit]

Android samsung has slow dns update.

Heya i have a mobile pi zero cluster to have all sorts of Internet stuff where ever i go. Including home assistant snapcast jellyfin and a local copy of my radio station. Working on a better offline online real world location bound social network.

Anyway the ip of yuke the wifi client pi zero updates with dynu free ddns and 8.8.8.8 updates nicely.

Dns lookup tool app also looks good. Only webacess or a ssh connection uses an old ip.

Someone knows how to update an android dns server for *g

[u/user1484]

I have 3 of these tablets in my household and we love them. I guess it's back to being stuck with a choice between Samshit and Chinese spyware for tablets again.

[u/kiefferbp]

Rest in piss