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- Last year, Google canceled its plans for the Pixel Tablet 2, leaving the fate of the company’s Pixel stylus unclear.
- This summer, that stylus has started popping up at online retailers, now branded as the Pixel Tablet Pen.
- The pen works fine with the existing Pixel Tablet, but not all its features appear fully implemented.
Google’s approach right now towards Android on screens larger than our phones is confusing, to put it mildly. On one hand, we’ve got Android’s increasingly impressive Desktop Mode, and word that Android will essentially be taking over for Chrome OS. But then we’re also looking at this in the context of Google’s own hardware, and the canceled Pixel Tablet 2 doesn’t exactly scream commitment to this form factor. As we wait to see how Google’s efforts here evolve, we’re thinking once again about the Pixel Tablet 2, upon the discovery of an accessory that seems like it shouldn’t exist.
Alongside the Pixel Tablet 2 itself, last year we reported that Google was also working on its own stylus, the descriptively named Pen for Google Pixel Tablet.
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