The latest Pixel Tablet leak reveals specs, pricing, and an on-sale date

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We’re coming up to a year since theGoogle Pixel Tabletwas first announced, and so it’s fair to say that it’s been a long time coming. Now a listing posted toAmazon, apparently in error, has revealed some of the specs, the pricing, and the on-sale date for the device.

There is a caveat though: this listing (via9to5Google) was on the Amazon Japan site before it got pulled. Still, it gives us some useful clues as to how this tablet might be priced and made available across the rest of the world as well.

The specs are listed as a Tensor G2 chipset, 8GB of RAM, and either 128GB or 256GB of storage. The screen, meanwhile, is a 10.95-inch affair, with a 2,560 x 1,600 pixel resolution and 500 nits of brightness. Battery life covers 12 hours of video watching, apparently, and there are 8MP cameras on the front and the back.

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Price and date

We can see from the pictures attached to the listing that we’ll get at least two colors: Porcelain (a sort of beige and white combo) and Hazel (green and black).As previously rumored, the tablet is going to come with ultra-wideband (UWB) support, which enables simple short-range communication between devices.

The starting price is pegged at ¥79,800:Googlewon’t use a straight currency conversion in other countries, but that works out as $590 / £470 / AU$870. For comparison,the entry-level iPadwill set you back ¥68,800, so this comes in as slightly more expensive.

Then there’s the on-sale date, which looks to be June 20 in Japan. It’s difficult to predict if that will be the same worldwide, but it shouldn’t be any later than that in other regions. This coming Wednesday, May 10, we have theGoogle IO 2023keynote – and we should get more information about the tablet then.

Analysis: don’t forget the tablet

We’reexpecting a whole host of announcementsto be made at Google IO 2023 this week: the Pixel 7a, the Pixel Fold, lots of AI innovations, thePixel Watch2, Android 14… the list goes on. In that sort of company you’d be forgiven for thinking that the final Pixel Tablet reveal isn’t going to be one of the most important we see on Wednesday.

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However, this is a big deal for Google. It’s the first tablet that it’s launched with the Pixel branding, and so it’s something of a step into the unknown – is there a demand for an affordable-ish Android tablet from Google?

It’s also clearly going to double up as a smart home hub, with its optional stand and speaker dock, and so the device is set to be an important cog in the overall hardware ecosystem that Google has been putting together.

There aren’t a whole lot of great Android tablets out there, though slates like theSamsung Galaxy Tab S8andAmazon Fire HD 8have a certain appeal. With Google now involved, we’re hoping that Android becomes a serious proposition on larger screens, and that more app developers cater for bigger displays as well.

Dave is a freelance tech journalist who has been writing about gadgets, apps and the web for more than two decades. Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you’ll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.

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