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The Google I/O 2022 launch event was perhaps the most intense in the past three years. Not only have we seen new things in software, like what’s coming to Google Maps or the new Google Wallet app, but Google has gone into Xiaomi mode and announced its hardware plans not only for the coming weeks, but for the coming months. And by that, we mean until 2023.
The biggest surprise of the day, and it wasn’t the only one, was the Pixel tabletGoogle’s renewed commitment to a sector of consumer technology that had been grossly neglected.
It is true that in recent months we have witnessed a clear resurgence of tablets, especially due to the pandemic and the various confinements that we have suffered, but it is clear that if Google bets on this, in hardware and software , it is something great.
A tablet that will arrive in 2023
Rick Osterloh himself, head of devices at Google, said it when he was on stage: it’s not normal to talk about a product a year before its launch.
However, the reason was clear, they want to send a message to the industry: we don’t take Android tablets seriously.
It’s not an obvious message, far from it, because Google has been completely unaware for many years that there are Android devices larger than 7 inches. The novelties in this sense come from brands such as Xiaomi or Samsung. Until now.
The company showed the first images of the Pixel tablet, a device with a similar aesthetic to the Pixel of previous generations, with a large screen and a camera in front and another behind. Although news is coming in software.
Google takes big screens seriously
Beyond the images in which it showed us the product, the company made a lot of emphasis on how Android 12 and later versions will radically change the way this operating system is used on tablets.
We will be able to create multi-windows in a simple way, drag elements from one application to another and even have a dock with the most used applications.
Google has announced that it has optimized more than 20 applications for tablets on the Play Store
In addition, we will be able to have applications with a different format from mobile applications or folding mobiles, using this larger screen diagonal.
It may seem obvious, but many apps are just replicas of those seen on cellphones, and the functions don’t take advantage of all that such a large screen allows.
On the other hand, the arrival of this software has been confirmed for a multitude of tablets from many manufacturers, so you won’t have to wait for the Pixel Tablet to be able to test it.
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