![]() ![]() The hilariously expensive Pixel Slate Keyboard is, and let’s not skirt around it, a huge disappointment. This is frustratingly important since, without it, there’s no built-in prop to stand the Slate up on a desk. Google Pixel Slate review: keyboardįor the main hardware, that’s about the end of the visual list, but if you’re going to get the most out of the Pixel Slate you’ll absolutely want to pick up its keyboard add-on (or one like it) to make the tablet/laptop hybrid package complete. Battery life, in our testing, was strong, easily lasting a day of heavy use. Notable by its absence is a headphone jack, though Google does supply a USB 3 adapter in the box. There’s an 8MP rear camera, and a same-res front-facing camera with a wide FOV, which is actually pretty great. The power button, recessed into the top edge of the aluminium shell, doubles as a fingerprint reader. Unlike the iPad Pro, you can extend the Slate with external mice (and keyboards) as well as additional storage, which is a handy feature. There is a pair of USB-C ports, one on each edge, meaning you can charge the Slate and expand it at the same time. Another tick in the win column, and moving further, the very edges of the case, marks a few more. ![]() These are loud, and they are supremely staged, with an output range that reaches impressively high and low without the hollow sound that mobile devices usually suffer from. Next to the screen, a pair of immensely capable front-firing speakers provide stereo sound when the Slate is used in its usual landscape configuration. But it’s also the reason we called the Celeron processor in the lower editions inadequate – asking a low-end processor to deal with shifting six million pixels every frame, as well as everything else it has to do, is quite the request. There screen is impressive even up against the impeccable Retina display of the iPad Pro. The panel also won us over when run through our suite of monitor tests, with a fairly impressive response rate that leads to smooth scrolling (though, spoiler, that’s not always the case) and some highly impressive colour separation and consistency. It’s vibrant without being over saturated, and absolutely razor-sharp when static. You are: the Surface Book-matching 3000x2000 panel, squashing 293 pixels per inch into its 12.3-inch area, does not disappoint even slightly. It’s been branded the Molecular Display, and when a standard component is given a grandiose name of its own you know you’re in for something special. So what do you get for your money? Most prominently, and arguably most essentially for a quality tablet, there’s the screen. ![]()
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