Yeah, I really don’t see the issue. If the device works as advertised, so what if it’s full of air?

No memory expansion = no sale. Clearly they had room for a MicroSD slot.

Haha they definitely can't claim there was no space for a headphone jack indeed.

But I mean, electronics is tiny, it can go with the same motherboard as a phone. The only thing it needs to be larger is a battery, and that's a capacity/weight balance.

Speakers maybe, but that's also a function of thinness so I don't know how much of a difference size makes. Thin laptops sound just as crappy as anything else thin unless the vendor shells out for some expensive units.

Kind of annoying, they could have used that space for a bigger battery, bigger heatsink, memory card reader, more ports, etc.

You and me both pixel tablet....

A tablet is basically a smartphone with a bigger screen. Maybe a slightly bigger SSD and battery but that's about it.

Have you seen the surface book? It could have twice the battery capacity if they just put more batteries into all the empty space.

Well, that would explain why my device feels so cool to the touch all the time (aside from the corner where the SoC is

I have never seen a mobile device with this much free space inside.

Inspired by the AlphaSmart.

I don't really see this as a bad thing, sooner or later someone's going to come up with a battery mod for these that doubles or triples run time and I'm here for it.

Edit: Re: tablet design- your can't really make the device super skinny or they get hard to hold so the extra space in the housing might just be designed in so the tablet is easier to handle. My eink tablet is super thin and pretty easy to drop, I don't have that issue with my larger/thicker Samsung tablet.