I’m here to save you some dinero, my friend. Today’s financial advice comes in the form of an interesting observation: You don’t really need a secondary Pixel Tablet dock for your home. Actually, you don’t even need the main one, but it comes in the box and it’s neat for its purpose, so I guess that’s fine. Buying a second one, though? A perfect waste of $129. Let me tell you why.
When I was setting up my Pixel Tablet, I noticed an interesting setting in Hub Mode. That’s the name of the idle screensaver mode that the Pixel Tablet goes into when it’s docked. It shows your photos, time and weather, and a shortcut to quickly control your favorite smart home devices. And the setting in question allows you to enable this mode when the tablet is charging too, regardless if it’s docked or not.