TechTabletsGoogle Pixel Tablet might soon be available at a bargain price, if you don’t need the charging dockGoogle is reportedly dropping the speaker dock to make its Pixel Tablet more attractively pricedWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechTabletsGoogle Pixel Tablet might soon be available at a bargain price, if you don’t need the charging dockGoogle is reportedly dropping the speaker dock to make its Pixel Tablet more attractively pricedWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Google is reportedly dropping the speaker dock to make its Pixel Tablet more attractively priced
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TheGoogle PixelTablet is an interesting device. As we said in ourGoogle Pixel Tablet review, it’s half tablet, half home hub – but at its original (and current) official price it was a bit of a hard sell. That perhaps explains why Google is now reportedly planning a soft relaunch of the device with a lower price.
According to @mysterylupin onX, Google is planning to relaunch the tablet without its Charging Speaker Dock. That’s sold separately for £139.
The Pixel Tablet currently retails for £599 via Google, although you can get it for a lot less if you shop around: a quick search this morning turned up some retailers such asAmazondoing the tablet for £479. And that’s with the dock included, so there’s clearly plenty of scope for an official price cut here.
How much will the relaunched Pixel Tablet cost?
That’s a good question, and it partly depends on whether Google will sell the tablet without any kind of charger: the dock currently takes care of charging. If Google drops the dock it might also decide to sell the Tablet with a USB-C cable as a bring your own charger option, although of course that would add to the purchase price for end users who don’t happen to have a spare 30W charger kicking about.
It’s possible that the relaunch could also herald the arrival of the fourth Pixel Tablet colour option: the tablet was originally reported to launch with a black colour option, but that’s currently missing in action.
It seems like Google’s tablet teams have been busy. According to9to5Googlethere’s also a rumoured new Nest Hub Max in development, although as yet there’s no confirmation of that particular rumour. However, a dock-free Pixel Tablet would be less home hub-y, which would help differentiate it from any new smart display. We may discover more at next month’s Google I/O event.
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