The team responsible for Google for Pixel C, the first own tablet of the company, on Reddit answered some questions about the Pixel C, Android and tablets in general, and also lifted a tip of the veil for Android by N
and Android tablets:. no best reputation
In recent years, Google has been little focus on tablets. There was, among other things criticized the decision to use the navigation buttons, such as the home and back button in the middle of the screen. According to Google designer Matias Duarte was that in order to use the muscle memory which is built up by the buttons on smartphones also sit in the middle. With Google Android 6.0.1 running back this decision, presumably because the buttons on larger tablets that are more accessible.
The major problem with Android tablets, however, lies with the applications. As the tablet market on the decline seems to be, there are fewer companies who make the effort to have developed a tablet app, and the number of companies that have made the past few years, was already not very large.
A large part of the questions posed to Reddit users Pixel C team then went about software and the lack of apps. According to the team, it is, at least partially, a “chicken-and-the-egg ‘story: if there’s no great hardware, also be developed no great apps and without great apps there will be no great hardware. The pixel C Google wants to break the deadlock, even though it already cooperates with major companies to release tablet apps. That first argument is strange: there have been very good premium tablets on the market running Android, but stagnating sales of tablets, also because of the emergence of larger smartphone screens
Upcoming improvements.
Even with many already appeared Pixel C reviews the conclusion is that the software fails, but according to the pixel C-team there are many improvements in the pipeline. In addition, the most popular is the ability to be able to use different applications at the same time next to each other, multi-window – support. Here are working hard to, as we said before, and the expectation is observed that we are going to see these improvements in the next major Android update, or it comes to Android N or another update is not yet clear.
Of course, there is little elude on other improvements for future Android updates, but there were still discussed other future improvements. It works to support DisplayPort over USB C, which would mean that you can connect an external monitor to the pixel C. That is made possible by the USB-C connection to the Pixel C. This is different the connection example on the Nexus and Nexus 5X 6P, because he supports USB 3.1. The shape is the same, but there are new opportunities, such as charging faster and faster data transfer rates. This also ensures that it is possible to send images over USB.
Name and updates
With the release of the Pixel C let Google know that the intention was that the pixel C every six weeks would get an update, as is the case for Chrome and Chrome OS. In the interview showed the Pixel team know that the Pixel C included in the monthly security updates that delivers Google Nexus devices.
The name of the pixel C at first caused much for some confusion. We know that the ‘C’ stands for ‘ convertible ‘, to indicate that it is a tablet which can be “converted” to a laptop. Until now it was called ‘Pixel’ reserved to two Chrome OS laptops. Initially it was planned that Chrome OS would run on the Pixels C, but this was later changed to Android yet, but the name remained. This has ensured that the pixel gets new meaning: henceforth be designed by Google and released devices. This is in contrast with Nexus devices, which in part by Google, but also partly by partners designed and released.
Availability
The Google Pixel C is available at starting this week Google Store for a starting price of 499 euros. The keyboard also takes also another 169 euros.
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