10.2-inch tablet powered by Nvidia Tegra X1 SoC
During its press event, Google has unveiled its new premium tablet, the 10.2-inch Pixel C powered by Nvidia Tegra X1 SoC and running on Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS.
Differentiating the Pixel from Nexus series, Google has unveiled its newest premium Pixel C tablet designed around a 10.2-inch 2560×1800 (308ppi) display with 500 nits of brightness and sRGB color gamut.
While Google is still keeping some of the specifications for itself, the company did reveal that the Pixel C will be powered by Nvidia’s Tegra X1 SoC, paired up with 3GB of RAM.
Although it was announced as a quad-core Tegra X1 SoC during Google’s event, the Nvidia Tegra X1 SoC is an octa-core design with four Cortex-A57 and four Cortex-A53 CPU cores paired up with a Maxwell 256-core GPU, which should provide some serious performance punch to the new Pixel C. We are pretty sure that this is simple mistake from Google, counting two quad-core clusters as a quad-core SoC, as we doubt that we are looking at a new SoC design.
As the Google Pixel C is a high-end tablet, Google had to pair it up with a high-end detachable keyboard, which attaches to the tablet via self-aligning magnets and connects to it via Bluetooth. The keyboard can also be attached to the tablet back via magnets and also has a small battery that can keep it alive for about two months and it is charged inductively by the tablet itself. The Pixel C also features USB Type-C connector and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS.
Unfortunately, Google was not precise regarding the launch date but did note that the Pixel C will be ready in time for the holiday shopping season and will reveal more details in the coming months. The price of the Pixel C is set at US $499 for the 32GB and US $599 for the 64GB version while the keyboard is an optional accessory that can be yours for US $149.
