{"id":69345,"date":"2025-08-09T05:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/69345\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:38:08","slug":"how-has-the-seemingly-canceled-pixel-tablet-pen-gone-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/69345\/","title":{"rendered":"How has the seemingly canceled Pixel Tablet pen gone up for sale?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TL;DR<\/p>\n

Last year, Google canceled its plans for the Pixel Tablet 2, leaving the fate of the company\u2019s Pixel stylus unclear.
\nThis summer, that stylus has started popping up at online retailers, now branded as the Pixel Tablet Pen.
\nThe pen works fine with the existing Pixel Tablet, but not all its features appear fully implemented.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s approach right now towards Android on screens larger than our phones is confusing, to put it mildly. On one hand, we\u2019ve got Android\u2019s increasingly impressive Desktop Mode,<\/a> and word that Android will essentially be taking over for Chrome OS. But then we\u2019re also looking at this in the context of Google\u2019s own hardware, and the canceled Pixel Tablet 2<\/a> doesn\u2019t exactly scream commitment to this form factor. As we wait to see how Google\u2019s efforts here evolve, we\u2019re thinking once again about the Pixel Tablet 2, upon the discovery of an accessory that seems like it shouldn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

Alongside the Pixel Tablet 2 itself, last year we reported that Google was also working on its own stylus, the descriptively named Pen for Google Pixel Tablet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the hardware didn\u2019t sound particularly impressive, looking like any generic USI 2.0 pen, it was still interesting to see Google itself developing this accessory. But with the cancellation of the Pixel Tablet 2, we had no idea what fate would hold in store for this project.<\/p>\n

Well, speak of the devil, because the Pixel Tablet Pen is apparently out. A little earlier this summer, Computerworld<\/a> got its hands on one, featuring a \u201cDesigned by Google\u201d message down the side and sporting model number GM0KF \u2014 exactly the same number we heard from our Google source last year.<\/p>\n

The stylus the site ordered through Amazon sure appears to match our expectations, including the button on top \u2014 which turned out to be adorned with a little Google logo.<\/p>\n

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Sadly, that button doesn\u2019t actually do anything right now, and the sort of app-quick-launch functionality we reported on earlier has not been implemented.<\/p>\n

But that hiccup aside, the pen works just as a USI 2.0 stylus should, and even attaches to the Pixel Tablet via magnets for convenient storage.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s incredibly unclear how this Pixel Tablet Pen made it from Google\u2019s design labs to these online retailers, and equally opaque for what the product\u2019s future looks like. Are these just the leftovers from a now-canceled production run? Has a manufacturing partner been taking a little too much initiative? We really can\u2019t say without just wildly speculating, but we will make one safe bet: Anyone who has one of these right now is a member of a pretty exclusive club.<\/p>\n

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