Future of Pixel Tablet stylus and keyboard accessories uncertain

Official keyboard and stylus accessories were not announced along with the Pixel Tablet, but do exist

Apple and Samsung make keyboard cases and styluses for their tablets. In fact, Samsung is offering the S Pen stylus for free with its best android tablets. The companies want you to think of their slates as do-it-all devices that can double as laptops when needed. Whether they can replace laptops is up for debate, but Google doesn’t really want to get involved in this discussion by claiming that its tablet can be used as a productivity device. But it seems that wasn’t always the plan.

Wojciechowska today mentioned two accessories that Google hasn’t announced so far: a “Stylus for Pixel Tablet” and a “Keyboard for Pixel Tablet.”

Now the Pixel Tablet does have Bluetooth, so you’re free to buy third-party keyboards, and it also supports USI 2.0 styluses.

At the moment there are no official keyboard and pen accessories for the slate, but Wojciechowska says they are still in development. She also adds that the tablet took so long to release because it wasn’t ready and says Google is still putting the finishing touches on it.

The company may be behind schedule and announce the official accessories at a later date.

Or – and we’re speculating here – Google may have realized it couldn’t compete with productivity-oriented iPads and took a different direction for its tablets.

Another theory, proposed by renowned writer and Android enthusiast Mishaal Rahman, is that the Pixel Tablet’s stylus may actually be an internal test product.

Google clearly has too much on its plate right now. In addition to the Pixel Tablet, the company also announced its first foldable phone has even made a second foldable phone that it didn’t think was good enough to market and may also be exploring a clamshell phone.

The Pixel tablet starts at $499 and is currently up for pre-order. The Charging Speaker Dock serves as a stand for the tablet. The slate has a 10.95-inch LCD screen and is powered by the Tensor G2 chip. It gets five years of software updates.