Considering the lack of love and care that Google has shown for tablet users since it stopped making Pixel tablets, you would be forgiven for thinking that Android tablets were pretty much dead and buried. But, low and behold, less than two weeks before Google I/O starts on May 18th, the search giant has announced a new tablet-centric feature called Entertainment Space, that aims to make accessing your visual, audio, and reading content easier to access.
Entertainment Space is a one-stop place for your movies, shows, videos, games, and books, all you need to do is sign into your various subscription apps. You can also create separate profiles if you share your tablet with others.
The Entertainment Space features Watch, Games, and Read tabs where you can find content from the services you already subscribe to such as Hulu, Starz, etc. as well as buying content from the Play Store. You can discover new games, new movies, and books, and
It’s great that Google has finally remembered that there is an Android tablet segment still around despite the lack of tablet-centric apps and optimizations, but the Entertainment Space feels like it’s bloatware. The Android tablet market needs far more attention paying to it than a new place to watch content from the apps you’ve already downloaded on the device, and frankly, it’s high time that Google changed its ways and put some resources into making the Android tablet experience a better one.
Sadly, when I say that Entertainment Space is coming to Android tablets I’m talking about Walmart’s line of Onn Android tablets from this month onwards. Other selected Android tablets from Lenovo, Sharp, and more will get the feature sometime later this year. There’s no mention of Samsung in there, so it’s a toss-up whether Entertainment Space will be available on Galaxy Tabs of any sort.
