Google has a proposal for iPad house owners who’re curious concerning the Pixel Pill. The corporate has a trade-in promotion that covers not less than the price of the Pixel Pill for iPad house owners — if no more, relying on which mannequin you could have. It really works with Samsung tablets as effectively, however these trade-in values are decrease. The Pixel Pill prices $399 (with out offers) for 128GB storage and no charging speaker dock.
Get the Pixel Pill at no cost with an eligible trade-in.
with trade-in of an eligible pill
The promo works with iPads as previous because the sixth-generation mannequin from six years in the past. For that, Google will provide you with a shocking $399 — matching the Pixel Pill’s base value. That iPad mannequin solely value $329 in 2018, so Google is overpaying by so much for that one.
Nonetheless, Google balances that with a lot worse presents for contemporary, high-end iPads. For instance, the 12.9-inch iPad Professional with M2 chip (2022) solely nets $450. Till this week (when the corporate launched a brand new iPad Professional and iPad Air), Apple offered that mannequin for $1,099, so we don’t advocate that trade-in worth. Should you’re achieved with a high-end iPad from the previous few years, you possibly can doubtless promote it on locations like eBay, Craigslist or Swappa for considerably extra.
The Pixel Pill stands out from its Android-running rivals by working with a charging speaker base that lets the gadget double as a wise show, making it way more versatile. Engadget’s Cherlynn Low thought that half overshadowed its core performance as a pill. “As a smart display, the Pixel Tablet mostly shines. It has a useful dashboard, an easy-to-read interface and impressive audio quality,” she wrote in our full assessment.
The pill has a ten.95-inch show with a 2,560 x 1,600 decision (276 PPI) and runs on a Google Tensor G2 chip. It weighs barely over a pound and is lighter than Android rivals just like the Galaxy Tab S8 and OnePlus Pad. Its again has a nano-ceramic coating that provides it a premium, glass-like feeling that you could be not count on from a $399 gadget.
Equipment are the place the Pixel Pill stands out essentially the most. Google’s Pixel Pill Case, offered individually for $79, has a built-in kickstand that makes the slate extra versatile. “What I love about the kickstand-hanger-combo is that it allows you to place the Tablet pretty much anywhere,” Low wrote in Engadget’s assessment. “So when I want to hang it off a kitchen cabinet to follow along with a recipe video or keep watching Love Is Blind for example, I can. And though the 2,560 x 1,600 LCD panel isn’t as vibrant as the OLED on Samsung’s Galaxy Tabs, it still produced crisp details and colorful images.”
The star accent is Google’s $129 charging speaker dock, which you need to use with out eradicating the kickstand case. This product transforms the pill into a wise show, probably voiding the necessity for different sensible dwelling management hubs. The speaker has spectacular sound for its dimension, making it simpler to listen to its responses in the event you aren’t proper subsequent to it.
Google’s nice print notes that the trade-in worth can be finalized after receiving the pill, and it could possibly be decrease if it determines the situation doesn’t match what you chose throughout the trade-in course of. The refund can be processed on the bank card you used to purchase the Pixel Pill (or by Google Retailer credit score in the event you return your buy throughout that point).
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