The Google Pixel Pill is a slate designed for the good house

Google has used its annual I/O occasion to unveil the Pixel Pill, with the slate providing a definite docking system that seems to make it a really perfect good show various.

On the floor, the $499 / £599 Pixel Pill seems to be simply one other run-of-the-mill Android slate. It boasts an 11-inch show, 2560 x 1600 LCD show, and is accessible in white, inexperienced, or pink.

Actually, although, there’s nothing groundbreaking right here, which suggests the actual star of the present is – and we will not actually consider we’re saying this – the ‘Charging Speaker Dock’ included within the field.

This primarily turns the Pixel Pill into a complicated model of the Google Nest Hub Max, a sensible show that is truly lengthy overdue an improve after being launched approach again in 2019.

When not in use, then, putting the pill on the dock permits it to cost and mechanically sync music by the extra substantial speaker, reasonably than the gadget’s personal 4 which are built-in.

Just like the Nest Hub Max, it’s going to additionally present a slideshow from Google Pictures when docked, with a fast entry button additionally citing the Google House app to allow you to management your units.

Naturally, it is also capable of deal with Google Assistant instructions, as properly, for individuals who need hands-free management, and no private data like notifications will probably be viewable till it is unlocked.

Pulling it off the dock will then see it rapidly change over any sound to the gadget’s audio system, at which level customers may also entry all of the wonders of Android 13 (with the pill, after all, upgrading to Android 14 later this 12 months).

Apart from being extra transportable, the OS is the opposite main distinction between the Pixel Pill and the Nest Hub Max, with the latter working on Google’s extra streamlined Fuchsia OS.

The Pixel Pill is accessible to pre-order now forward of a 20 June delivery date. Keep tuned for our full verdict and comparability with the corporate’s flagship good show.