Google Pixel Tablet with Charging Speaker Dock (Open Box)

I am a life long Google fan boy from the first Google Nexus phones forward and when somebody like me can get fed up enough to think about selling every Google product I own things are not good in the neighborhood. So let's start with the installation. Me and what looks like 1000's of others had a absolute mess of a time trying to get both the hub and tablet to connect correctly to the Home app it took multiple hours on the phone with tech support to tell me to factory reset, upgrade my 300 dollar router that is a month old, and reinstall about 15 to 20 different products. Great work Google! A month later and it still doesn't always show up when trying to set up a broadcast across multiple speakers and sometimes just completely disappears from the app. If I'm honest this might be a issue with the app itself. Every new update has honestly made the experience worse and worse over the last 2 or 3 years and that makes me sad because at one time this ecosystem was just amazing. Cons: - broken set up that takes hours and multiple factory resets of the whole system - broken app (just Google "Home app issues" and you will see what exactly the problems are. - UI in hub mode is just a pop up version of the home app devices screen. No change in interface to make it easier to use as a hub (like the Hub Max does) and same sized text that makes it impossible to read at arms reach the way most people would use it in hub mode. - The hub itself goes in and out of existence depending on what the Home app is willing to allow. - The hub also sounds like it might be made out of tin cans. If you want audio quality similar to the Hub Max do not get this. Hell, if you want audio quality better than the Home mini speakers don't get this. - Bezels! Everywhere! But that's normal for Google and I actually like that my fingers aren't always accidentally hitting the screen so? Depends on your preference. - I didn't think that the placement of the volume and fingerprint reader would bother me but it absolutely does. If the tablet is docked the power button and volume are on the top side in the far right corner. Alright, fair enough. But when you take the tablet off the hub and are holding it, it's a very inconvenient placement. Most of all when you use it in portrait. Because now you must scan your other hand at the top left or constantly hit the buttons accidentally at the bottom right. Putting a little thought behind the placement would have been putting it on the right side top when docked. It would have made everything so much easier. - I know that Google said right before release that this would not be a replacement for the Hub Max and man were they not lying! It does almost nothing that the Hub Max does. Not even show active doorbell cams or anything! Pros?- - I guess it's fairly smooth running when it's just a tablet the new Google chip set seems to be doing well. That being said I mostly only use Google apps on the tablet that are all custom built for the tablet. I've heard 3rd party apps haven't been great yet but that should change if Google makes anymore of these things after this first Gen disaster. - I personally think it looks nice while docked. With that said you are limited to about 4 different clocks or using you Google Photos as a screen saver. Very little customization for a Google product. - I'm really trying here but they have just completely missed the mark with this device. In closing. If you want a middle of the road Android tablet that gets charged nicely on a stand and is out of the way when you're not using it. Then maybe buy this. If you want any functionality with the Home app ecosystem in any meaningful way or a hub screen that is well thought out and useful I wish I could say just get a Hub Max because they are awesome! But the way the Home ecosystem is headed and it hurts me to say just stay away from Google smart home products.