The Google Pixel Tablet has been my Smart Home display for almost a year (and it's on sale)

The Google Pixel Tablet Is $ 100 discount from Best Buy, available for 399 US dollars.

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Google Pixel tablet After a few years, the company's return to the tablet market marked (earlier efforts were Pixel C and Pixel Slate). While it was highly praised as an almost perfect Android tablet, the reception was overwhelming.

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The Google Pixel Tablet is an 11-inch android plate with a charging stock that serves as a spokesman. If you have charged the tablet on the dock, it changes to an adaptable smart display, such as an iPhone during standby mode or a fire tablet in show mode. Loading your pixel tablet is like the Nest Hub Max experience, but not quite there.

As a Smart Home user, I decided to try out the smart display function of this tablet. I love intelligent panels more than tablets. I do not often reach for my tablet for entertainment -I rely on my phone -so I use an intelligent display or the Smart Home apps more and longer than a tablet.

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The problem that many reviewers have with the pixel tablet is that it is a simpleeton among his colleagues – and not in a bad manner. Google did not design this tablet next iPad Pro, which processes intensive video editing sessions and is occasionally a replacement for your laptop.

The pixel tablet is an entertainment device with which you can check the latest game results or scroll Tikok while taking a break from writing in a Word document.

That means it is a tablet that offers a clean Android experience and you can forget whether you are Team iOS or Android. As a loyal iOS user, I disoriented for six years when I use an Android device. The strange navigation errors and delays remind me of why I canceled Android years ago.

These errors are only a few on the Google Pixel tablet and far between each other. While the pixel tablet contained some mistakes during navigation and daily use, it was far less than the one I experienced with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9, although I experience much more often than what I experience on my iPad.

The pixel tablet worked surprisingly well as a smart -home display, but still left a lot to be desired.

Here is what makes the pixel tablet good

When I used this pixel tablet as a smart home panel for Google Home-compatible products in my house, I noticed that Google Assistant was much smarter than Siri and Alexa. This is a tight race in which all three are constantly improving to even more because generative AI is thrown into the mix. However, Google Home runs smoothly on the pixel tablet.

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In contrast to smart displays such as the Google Nest Hub and the Echo hub, the Pixel tablet is a portable device. You can grab it to read the messages or play a game almost everywhere. I brought mine to school after my children's activities to play or see something while waiting. A multi -purpose display in the center of an intelligent home is like two tablets in one.

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The pixel tablet is faulty. All intelligent displays have their mistakes, but after testing several Echo show devices and using the Apple Homekit, Amazon Alexa and Google Home app on iPhones, iPads and Android devices, I expected more from the Smart Home Control functions of the Pixel tablet.

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While Google Homes runs well on the Pixel tablet, Nanoleaf products on Google Home were most difficult. I have some connectivity problems with certain Cree -Smart devices that do not always react via Google Home, even though they do well with Alexa.

The distant field microphone experience also wanted me, especially since I am surrounded by far too many echo devices and a HomePod Mini. The pixel tablet could hear me well enough from the room if I used it most of the time. But in contrast to my echo devices, the pixel tablet could not understand me in our open floor plan when I was in the kitchen, which indicates that it would work best in a bedroom or a smaller living room. (My HomePod Mini can hear me from a story.)

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The dock also feels a little uncomfortable when you pick up the device. It is not difficult to daw the pixel tablet for charging, especially if you have got used to the feeling, but you have to pick it up just right to cover it. Google suggests lifting it to the lower edge to rinse and absorb it, but it can lead to the dock with the tablet almost absorbes on any other way.

ZDNETS purchase advice

Should you choose A Pixel tablet to use as a smart -home panel via one Echo hub or Google Nest Hub Max? Compared to both, the Pixel tablet is a portable device, while the Google Nest Hub and the Echo -Hub are stationary smart displays.

Although many users prefer the function of 229 Nest Hub Max as a dedicated smart display, I would be happy to have a multi-purpose display in the middle of the smart home with the 2-in-1 pixel tablet. If you grab the fully charged tablet on my way to the door or upstairs, it becomes easier to use than other tablets. If you set it into an intelligent display, it is a second life while idling, while other tablets are switched off or stowed away.

The Echo Hub was specially developed as a smart home display for Amazon Alexa. If you prefer the Alexa Voice Assistant and already have other Echo devices, an echo hub of 180 US dollars would probably be a better addition to your smart home than a pixel tablet.