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What's the first 2 digits of your serial number?
**** The Official Google Pixel C Thread ****
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I'll get back to you on that one... left the damn thing in Carlisle and I'm in Newcastle! Argh.
UPDATE: got it back in Newcastle, starts with 5A
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Touch issue happened again, so they're sending out a replacement in the next couple of days... Still love this thing.
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Have they changed how split screen works? It never seemed that great before for me, but now is actually something I'm using...
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Definitely feels different... I've not used split screen much, before or after Oreo update, but overall the whole experience does feel improved.
_still_ my absolute go-to device for pretty much anything other than PC/XBox gaming.
_still_ my absolute go-to device for pretty much anything other than PC/XBox gaming.
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Aye, I'm assuming there's some Oreo magic cascaded down from the Pixel phone shenanigans... they boot pretty sharpish now as well!
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Seems to be quiet on the grapevine over a replacement, although there were some "Pixel 7/8" rumours last year around the time the Pixel phones arrived... nothing concrete or sensible, or of the quality of rumours/leaks from the likes of Evan Blass and the like.
Honestly don't understand the lack of love for this in the tame tech press either... just looked at a couple of "What to buy in late 2017" tablet articles and although the Pixel C gets a mention, it's all iPad (2017) and don't bother with owt else... I ended up trying iPad again in April and it drove me utterly insane within a couple of months again. There may be a distinct lack of Apple-style tablet coordination and tablet app targetting, but I honestly can't go with anything else tablet-wise, and will be gutted if my Pixel C goes belly up and I can't fix/replace.
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It's a great device, but the experience is not amazing without third party apps fixing Google's incompetence...
Without Rotation Control Pro, I would not use the Pixel as much as I do. It was always pretty infuriating when apps would just switch to portrait, regardless of being landscape whilst on the keyboard.
I'd also be gutted if mine broke, there's not another Android tablet that can replace it at the moment.
Without Rotation Control Pro, I would not use the Pixel as much as I do. It was always pretty infuriating when apps would just switch to portrait, regardless of being landscape whilst on the keyboard.
I'd also be gutted if mine broke, there's not another Android tablet that can replace it at the moment.
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d'Oh! Rotation, forgot about that... given it's sitting there and taming stupid apps/Google incompetence! Definitely one of the best app buys I've made.
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I assume other Android tablets have the same issue, although I don't remember my Nexus 9 doing that?
It's a must have, although feel like Google should allow us this kind of control by default. Apps may not be designed for tablets, but I've never thought it's been horrible to use a rotated app.
It's a must have, although feel like Google should allow us this kind of control by default. Apps may not be designed for tablets, but I've never thought it's been horrible to use a rotated app.
Have recently picked 1 of these up and have a couple of questions:
My screen has a slight yellow tint compared to my Z3 tablet ... is this normal?
Also in some games the picture freezes but you can hear the game is still going (Real Drift) for 1 of the games. Is this down to the game maybe not updated for Oero? ... I tried checking the CPU temp but those apps keep crashing.
cheers.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/tskzqei85g8o8ea/Pixel C Game Freeze.mp4?dl=0
My screen has a slight yellow tint compared to my Z3 tablet ... is this normal?
Also in some games the picture freezes but you can hear the game is still going (Real Drift) for 1 of the games. Is this down to the game maybe not updated for Oero? ... I tried checking the CPU temp but those apps keep crashing.
cheers.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/tskzqei85g8o8ea/Pixel C Game Freeze.mp4?dl=0
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Do the Pixel C tablets have 2 year warranty ?
Reason i ask is the mate has had his for 13 months and the backlight stopped working.
Originally from Currys but they said no warranty 12 months with Currys.
Reason i ask is the mate has had his for 13 months and the backlight stopped working.
Originally from Currys but they said no warranty 12 months with Currys.
my invoice shows 2 years.
I would have thought it would be 12 month with place of purchase and remainder with manufacturer.
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Off to Google he will go they are usually pretty good with warranty claims.
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Google will not repair it.They told him if it had been bought from them they would have replaced it but as he bought from Currys
he had to get them to repair it.Currys say they will not repair so it's back to Google again.
he had to get them to repair it.Currys say they will not repair so it's back to Google again.
It's irrelevant where it was bought from, Google still have to replace it.
Either they replace it directly or indirectly via Currys which seems pointless.