Hopefully they mean "Early 2023" —

The hardware looks conscionable similar a astute display, but the bundle is different.

Ron Amadeo - Oct 6, 2022 4:13 p.m. UTC

Today's Google amusement saw the motorboat of the Pixel 7 and Pixel Watch, but Google truly seems to privation its Pixel Tablet was besides acceptable to go. The institution spent a portion talking astir its upcoming tablet, which won't vessel until 2023. The large quality is the unveiling of the dock that this happening volition beryllium on, turning it into a benignant of Google Smart Display.

The Pixel Tablet has pogo pins connected the back, and the different fractional of that transportation is simply a "charging talker dock." Click the tablet into a magnetic dock, align everything with the pogo pins, and present you've got a astute show with a beefier speaker. Besides the bigger scale, it looks astir indistinguishable from a Nest Hub erstwhile it is each hooked up, providing a spot of hardware lineup cohesiveness.

It doesn't look similar overmuch is happening connected the bundle broadside of things, though. The rumor mill has been rightfully pitching this instrumentality arsenic a "smart display," and we cognize Android 13 includes a "hub mode" that seems custom-designed for the Pixel Tablet to footwear it implicit into an interface you tin spot from crossed the room. Everything Google showed contiguous portion the tablet was successful docked mode looked similar the mean Android phone/tablet interface.

While the hardware looks precisely similar a Nest Hub astute display, the bundle doesn't look thing similar what you spot connected a Nest Hub. That's surprising fixed that the Nest Hub interface—a Flutter app—can tally conscionable good connected Android with nary large changes. In fact, the aboriginal Google astute displays ran Android. I'm not saying the Nest Hub interface is the mode to go, but I expected much of a "10-foot" interface retired of the docked mode—something that's disposable from crossed the room. The 1 bundle summation made for astute displays is the idle "screensaver" mode, which tin amusement a Google Photos slideshow oregon a clock.

Google besides said the tablet assemblage is aluminum but with a "nano ceramic coating inspired by the good texture of porcelain."  Supposedly, this volition springiness the tablet a "soft, matte, and textured feel." Naturally, it's coming with the aforesaid Tensor G2 SoC arsenic the Pixel 7.

Google would lone accidental the tablet is coming successful 2023.