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pixel c

Google has been selling Android tablets under the Nexus brand since 2022, but this year nosotros have something very different. The newly announced Pixel C is not a Chrome OS device, as you might assume from the name. Information technology's a ten.2-inch tablet that will run Android 6.0 Marshmallow and pairs with a cool Bluetooth keyboard, making it essentially Google'south accept on the Microsoft Surface.

The Pixel C lives upwardly to its name — it looks like yous chopped the keyboard off the Chromebook Pixel and installed Android on it. That means it has a unibody aluminum frame and a cool lite bar on the back. Yous can tap the bar to see the battery level of the Pixel C. Google stressed that there are no exposed screws or weird seams in the casing. This is designed to exist an ultra-premium piece of hardware, a pleasant alter from last twelvemonth's disappointing HTC-built Nexus 9 tablet.

Inside, the Pixel C has very high-finish hardware including 3GB of RAM and 32-64GB of storage. The tablet will be powered by an NVIDIA Tegra X1 system-on-a-chip (SoC). This part has a octa-core CPU with four 64-scrap ARM Cortex-A57 cores and four high-efficiency Cortex-A53 cores. The GPU is based on the desktop Maxwell compages and can actually push pixel. That's proficient because there are a ton of pixels in the Pixel C's display.

Google'south new tablet has a ten.2-inch LCD with a resolution of 2560×1800 and tin can output over 500 nits of brightness. This is a substantially higher resolution than either the Nexus nine or the iPad offer. The iPad Pro is slightly higher at 2732×2048, simply it's also ii inches larger.

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You may exist wondering what the C in Pixel C stands for — it's "convertible." The optional Bluetooth keyboard attached magnetically to the tablet. It actually only sticks to the back if y'all're not using it. When you lot desire to do some typing, you tin can conform the keyboard hinge between 100 and 135 degrees. It doesn't need a kickstand like the Surface, either. The hinge just stays where you put it. The keyboard and tablet can talk to each other, then the on-screen keyboard won't popular up and go in your way when the keyboard is docked.

The keyboard has a long-lasting battery, and if you've got information technology connected to the tablet yous never accept to worry near forgetting to accuse it. That's considering the tablet wirelessly trickle-charges the keyboard automatically.

The Pixel C volition launch with Android half-dozen.0 Marshmallow, but I wouldn't exist surprised if that'south actually six.0.1 by the time it ships. The Pixel C is supposed to be out in time for the holidays, so expect it to show up for order in November or December. The 32GB Pixel C will cost $499 and the 64GB will be $599. In that location'due south no microSD carte slot, though. The neat keyboard is another $150 on top of that.