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Speaker 1: Google's pixel Slate combines the best of a tablet and

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Speaker 2: What's going on, I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Google recently unveiled a new device called the pixel Slate.

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Speaker 1: It's a tablet that becomes a laptop once you snap

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Speaker 1: it into a specially designed keyboard cover, and it also

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Speaker 1: has a stylus sound familiar while pixel Slate combines aspects

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Speaker 1: of the iPad Pro, Microsoft Surface, and a Chromebook all

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Speaker 1: into one. I went hands on with the device at

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Speaker 1: Google's Made by Google launch event earlier this month in

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Speaker 1: New York City, and although I personally dream of having

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Speaker 1: an all in one device like this that would let

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Speaker 1: me go from productivity on the plane to Netflix before bed,

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Speaker 1: I'm a rare use case scenario since I edit a

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Speaker 1: lot of video on the go and I rely on

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Speaker 1: a MacBook Pro for that. But the pixel Slate is

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Speaker 1: a good contender if you're doing mostly business stuff like

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Speaker 1: email and spreadsheets, then want to unwind a bit with

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Speaker 1: a tablet to read or watch video. I talked to

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Speaker 1: Matt vacone product management director at Google, about why a

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Speaker 1: two in one.

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Speaker 3: We see a lot of people very interested in you

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Speaker 3: as your life blends together more between work and play.

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Speaker 3: More and more hybrid type of devices are coming out,

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Speaker 3: and people want the flexibility both in the operating system

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Speaker 3: at times. So really focused on two main things is

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Speaker 3: but then bringing Chrome OS into a full tablet experience

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Speaker 3: so you can actually use it to get work done

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Speaker 3: as well as using all your favorite apps.

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Speaker 2: Pixel Slate is thin and sleek.

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Speaker 1: It has a substantial feel though when you pick it

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Speaker 1: up it's seven millimeters thick and one point six pounds heavy.

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Speaker 1: The display is just over twelve inches and it does

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Speaker 2: It's also a really clear screen.

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Speaker 1: The pixel Slate runs a more touch optimized version of

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Speaker 3: It's actually the same operaing system as what's on all

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Speaker 3: chromebooks is what's on pixel book, but we now have

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Speaker 3: it we've really enhanced if we use on a touch screen.

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Speaker 3: There's actually a long journey we've been on to bring

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Speaker 3: great touch support into their all the great applications as well.

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Speaker 4: So it's actually the same experience when it's really cool.

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Speaker 3: When you try out the device, when you're holding it

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Speaker 3: as a tablet, you know, it looks like a traditional

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Speaker 3: tablet experience, and then we pop it into the keyboard,

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Speaker 3: it looks just like a typical Chromebook experience.

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Speaker 1: Important to know, pixel Slate also runs a full version

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Speaker 1: of the Chrome web browser.

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Speaker 2: This is key.

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Speaker 1: You're not limited to mobile versions of sites, and you

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Speaker 1: can install all of your favorite extensions just like you

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Speaker 1: would on the desktop. Now, you're still going to be

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Speaker 1: making some compromises with the device like this, but as

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Speaker 3: But we don't think it's true anymore in what we've

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Speaker 3: done with pixel Slay, and that was a key thing.

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Speaker 3: We want to have no compromise, that you can actually

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Speaker 3: and so that's why it was important to have a

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Speaker 1: The keyboard doubles as a folio case. That's a two

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars add on. It has rounded keys and in

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Speaker 1: don't like what Apple did to the keyboard this time around.

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Speaker 1: I'm always making mistakes and it is super duper loud.

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Speaker 3: We're really really proud of the pixel Slate keyboard that

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Speaker 3: We call them hush keys. Yes, so we think being

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Speaker 1: Pixel Slate has a camera on both the front and

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Speaker 2: There's also a USB sport on each.

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Speaker 3: And then in back camera, a lot of the actually

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Speaker 4: Camera we've implemented into our camera as well.

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Speaker 3: So that's why on the tablet you can actually now

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Speaker 2: Okay, but what about battery life.

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Speaker 3: Battery life, we're really excited we're at twelve hours of

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Speaker 3: we really really wanted great long battery life. So we're

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Speaker 3: really proud that we've we've hit we've hit twelve hours.

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Speaker 1: Safety and security always a big benefit of Chromebooks, and

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Speaker 1: that extends to the pixel Slate. It's going to boot

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Speaker 1: Google calls Titan m has a fancy name, but Matt

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Speaker 3: Security has always been a core tenet of promos. You know,

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Speaker 4: Is a security and so we have a titaned security chip.

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Speaker 3: We actually had it in pixel Book last year as well,

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Speaker 1: And when I asked Matt about the biggest challenges in

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Speaker 3: Biggest challenge is always what's great about we're working at Harvard.

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Speaker 3: Part of Google is, you know, we get a chance

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Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, I would love to have a

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Speaker 2: Then when I'm on personal travel, I want a tablet.

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Speaker 1: And device like the pixel Slate definitely solves this dilemma.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people who want just a great, awesome

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Speaker 4: So those are two users i'd highlight.

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Speaker 1: The Peloton app is going to launch on Android with

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Speaker 1: Google's pixel Slate going on sale later this year, and yes,

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Speaker 1: The device starts at six hundred dollars, then add another

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Speaker 1: and a laptop. You can see more of the pixel

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Speaker 1: Slate on my website, Rich on tech dot tv. I've

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Speaker 1: got the hands on demo there, or just look for

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Speaker 1: the link in the show notes. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: listening to the show. I'm Rich Demiro.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you real soon.