Last week we showed off the unreleased Pixel Tablet Pen, which was wildly up for sale on outlets such as Amazon. Now, another user has gotten their hands on the stylus, this time showing the magnet case that would have come with Pixel Tablet Pen, and even Google’s finished instruction manual.
The Pixel Tablet Pen is Google’s unreleased stylus for its current Android tablet. The stylus runs on the USI 2.0 standard and, in our brief testing, works remarkably well for being something that never actually hit the market. But the crazy thing is just how close this device seemingly got to being released.
Top comment by Julian
I ordered the pen from one of those random sellers on Amazon for ~$25.
It works great and I'm glad to have a small piece of Google history (unless they decide to fully release it one day, in which idk🤷♂️)
I wish the button pressed worked but I think it's up to specific apps to support it? I'm not sure there but when I turned on developer settings and turn on the setting for "show hardware key inputs" I could see the button press being detected by Android.
Overall it's cool. I don't need it but it's fun to use and draw and take some notes.
Another user who got their hands on one of these Pixel Tablet Pen units got the full packaging, rather than the nondescript white box ours was shipped in. This includes a full Google manual for the device that shows pairing instructions over Bluetooth. The software side of this, at least as far as we’re currently aware, was never actually made available to the Pixel Tablet, so none of this actually works (we’ll have to do further testing later).
By far the most interesting tidbit here is that the Pixel Tablet Pen would have shipped with a magnetic sleeve case that would have allowed the stylus to attach to the back of the tablet.
The stylus itself technically can latch on to the tablet by way of the built-in magnets, but it’s not strong, nor is it conveniently located. The case seemingly fixes that, though it’s certainly still not the most elegant solution.
More on Pixel Tablet:
- Here’s the unreleased ‘Pixel Tablet Pen,’ and you can just go buy one [Gallery]
- Some Pixel Tablet accessories we can’t live without [Video]
- I want the next Pixel Tablet to revisit the past – what do you want in a sequel?
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