Why Is Everybody Speaking About This Stylus for a Canceled Pixel Pill?

I perceive rehashing the previous to search for clues, however what’s the level if it can remind you of what you don’t have? (Cease these outdated journal archives, Flo.) We all know we’re not getting the Google Pixel Tablet 2 anymore, regardless of the general positive reviews that the first-generation acquired after its messy launch in 2023. So it appears merciless to repetitively beat on a lifeless horse over one thing that may by no means be resurrected, not less than not anytime quickly.

Why are we speaking in regards to the Pixel Pill stylus that by no means was and, reportedly, by no means can be? It’s a torturous moot level. Android Authority posted what it says is a rendering of what was going to be the magic wand to unlock the entire Pixel Pill 2’s potential. The “Pen for Google Pixel Pill” had the code identify “bushukan,” which shares an alias with the citrus fruit often called Buddha’s hand. The pen mannequin was/is known as mannequin “GM0KF.” In case you seek for that and “pixel stylus,” you’ll get every thing the blogosphere has written about this unreleased pen.

The stylus would have supposedly existed in two colours, white and grey, most likely to match the colorways of the Pixel Pill 2. The pen had a button on the highest that you may press to launch a note-taking app. I took a screenshot of Android Authority’s embedded video and pasted it under. The diagram exhibits us it’s fairly normal stylus habits. The pen would have magnetically docked onto an official keyboard accent that may now not see the sunshine of day. It had Discover My Gadget integration in case you wanted to find it throughout the depths of your sofa cushions or wherever else you would possibly lose a stylus to bulk padding.

Google was reportedly going to launch a second-generation Pixel Pill this yr however canceled it just a few weeks in the past. We had renders percolating round Android blogs all yr and even the aforementioned keyboard folio to go along with it—one thing the first-gen Pixel Pill lacked as a result of it was billed as a kind of cellular sensible house machine moderately than a productiveness machine just like the OnePlus Pad, which debuted across the similar time.

It’s unlikely we’ll see this stylus crop up individually from a pill machine. This can be a disgrace as a result of the final time Google did one thing with a stylus, it confirmed promise. Keep in mind the Pixelbook? I nonetheless have one proper right here, bodily close to me, for at any time when I really feel like taking out its flippable clamshell design to recollect what might have been. I nonetheless have the stylus that went with the Chromebook. It had a button the place your thumb resides so you may simply faucet it for extra performance. The stylus, coupled with the Chromebook, was not dangerous! I used it for note-taking at a number of conferences all through the 2-in-1’s lifetime. But it surely feels like Google is planning to distance itself from the productiveness gadget trajectory in favor of the related house. The Pixel Pill 2 was probably shelved to give attention to one thing else with a giant display screen that matches into a private area.