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One year later: Can Android 7.0 Nougat save the Pixel C?

September 12, 2016

The Pixel C tablet has had a tough life. Under its code name of “Ryu,” the Pixel C started life in the Chrome OS open source repository, seemingly indicating that at one point it was meant to run Chrome OS. Google was experimenting with a touchscreen interface for Chrome OS to the point that an on-screen keyboard (which is mostly useless on a laptop) shipped in the stable version. A finished version of an “all-touch” Chrome OS never materialized, though, and we ended up with a Pixel C running regular Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

The result was a “productivity” device that couldn’t multitask.

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