Google: The Pixel tablet should not have a direct successor 46 comments
Plans for a direct successor to the Pixel tablet (test) would not be considered at Google. Google simply expected failure and therefore stopped development. However, that doesn’t mean the general end of Google’s tablets is sealed; a Pixel Tablet 3 could still arrive.
Over the past few days, reports about Google’s new, seemingly more planned tablets have become a bit overwhelming. At least the information seems to be solidifying at the moment that there will be no direct successor to the Pixel Tablet, launched on the market in the summer of 2023. The Pixel Tablet was the first new Android tablet directly from Google, eight years after the Pixel C (test).
Not a Pixel Tablet 2, but a Pixel Tablet 3
About a week ago, Android Authority reported that Google was planning a new Pixel Tablet 2 with a keyboard. The current Pixel tablet was initially offered by Google exclusively with a dock as an accessory, but since this year it has been offered at a reduced price and as a dockless option, but Google has never offered a keyboard like the Pixel C.
Shortly after, Android Headlines said that the next successor, the Pixel Tablet 3, codenamed “Kiyomi,” was no longer on Google’s roadmap. The “Kiyomi” is actually the Pixel Tablet 2, as Android Authority later tracked, overturning its own previous report. According to the publication, it is still too early to make concrete statements about the Pixel Tablet 3. A corresponding tablet could still hit the market in 2027, but according to the article, a Pixel Tablet 2 supposedly planned for 2025 is not no longer available. developed by Google.
Pixel Tablet is not intended to make profit
In its statements, the publication relies on a single source within Google, according to which there were internal fears that no money could be made from the Pixel Tablet 2. Due to the lack of official figures, Google does not cannot quantify the success of the current Pixel tablet. has been for Google so far.
The Pixel Tablet 3 could arrive for Pro users
The Pixel Tablet 2 should have hit the market with the same Tensor G4 as the Pixel 9 series and would have been offered in versions only with WLAN and also with 5G, while the penultimate Tensor G6 was intended for the Pixel. Tablet 3. Apparently, the next generation of tablets will be aimed more at professional users and will also support image output via DisplayPort via a second USB-C controller in order to replace a laptop and allow working on the desktop .
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