Google has a proposal for iPad house owners who’re curious in regards to the Pixel Pill. The corporate has a trade-in promotion that covers a minimum of the price of the Pixel Pill for iPad house owners — if no more, relying on which mannequin you’ve got. It really works with Samsung tablets as properly, 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 without 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 offers you a shocking $399 — matching the Pixel Pill’s base price. That iPad mannequin solely price $329 in 2018, so Google is overpaying by quite a bit for that one.
Nonetheless, Google balances that with a lot worse affords 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 bought that mannequin for $1,099, so we don’t suggest that trade-in worth. Should you’re finished with a high-end iPad from the previous few years, you possibly can probably promote it on locations like eBay, Craigslist or Swappa for considerably extra.
The Pixel Pill stands out from its Android-running opponents by working with a charging speaker base that lets the machine double as a sensible show, making it rather 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 evaluate.
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 offers it a premium, glass-like feeling that you could be not count on from a $399 machine.
Equipment are the place the Pixel Pill stands out probably the most. Google’s Pixel Pill Case, bought 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 evaluate. “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 should utilize with out eradicating the kickstand case. This product transforms the pill into a sensible show, doubtlessly voiding the necessity for different good dwelling management hubs. The speaker has spectacular sound for its measurement, making it simpler to listen to its responses for those who aren’t proper subsequent to it.
Google’s fantastic 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 way of Google Retailer credit score for those who return your buy throughout that point).
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