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Re:Google retires the Pixel C tablet as it shifts focus to t... by jo909 on Friday December 29, 2017 @05:14AM (#16028697)
I recently bought a Lenovo Tab 8 Plus as a Nexus 7 replacement, and am fairly happy with it. The screen is excellent and sound is good. It's slightly bigger, but I got used to that quickly.

I disliked the slippery glass back, but a homemade skin (plastic stickyback film) worked great.

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Re:Google retires the Pixel C tablet as it shifts focus to t... by mschwaig on Friday December 29, 2017 @06:15AM (#16028879)
I did the same thing. Totally agree with your comment.

The glass back is ridiculously impractical and makes the Tab4 8 Plus slip down from furniture a lot.

If anyone wants to get that tablet make sure to get some sort of case for it. Otherwise it's a decent device and Android feels very close to stock except for a few unnecessary Lenovo apps you can't remove and the software update app which seems to be customized unnecessarily and a little poorly as well.

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Re:Google retires the Pixel C tablet as it shifts focus to t... by joekrill on Friday December 29, 2017 @08:39AM (#16029409)
Also a Nexus 7 user, moved to a Shield, and more recently I bought the regular (not "Plus") variant and I'm also fairly happy with it. It's no gaming tablet (maybe the Plus is?) but I mostly just use it for reading - be it ebooks, websites, or news.
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