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Google chrome os tablet
Google chrome os tablet










It's all very rough at this stage, but none of it is too remote from a multitouch-enabled version of the Chrome OS. The video mock-up shows a much larger tablet, with hands resizing and moving windows through the multitouch interface, scrolling through text, and typing a search query. Also included are a slideshow mode, an application launcher, sidebar-mounted browser tabs, and a pop-up contextual menu. The tablet mock-ups show a variety of Chrome OS tablet ideas, including a virtual keyboard taking up the bottom half of the screen or detached and floating as a separate window. Its Android mobile-phone operating system is increasingly influential, and its Chrome browser continues to steadily grow in usage. The ideas are only mock-ups, but Google has established itself as a real if not dominant force in the computing industry. The tablet market isn't as big as the Netbook market, though. With that approach, Chrome OS' break from the PC world could be less jarring. Today's tablets, in contrast, tend to focus more on a collection of specialized uses such as reading books, surfing the Net, and chores that only require light typing. Netbooks often are used as general-purpose PCs, so the browser-based philosophy of Chrome OS is a more jarring transition. It's possible that Chrome OS could be an easier sell on tablets than on Netbooks, the class of device on which Google said it plans to launch Chrome OS. Chromium is the name of the open-source developer project that underlies the branded Chrome product. Each would have vastly different input methods, available screen space, and processing power," according to the Chromium form factors site.

google chrome os tablet

"While its primary focus is Netbooks, Chrome OS could eventually scale to a wide variety of devices. The site also shows the array of devices Google envisions for Chrome OS. Apparently nobody noticed initially, because only now did Murphy tweet, "Apparently our tablet mocks have been unearthed."

google chrome os tablet

On Monday, Glen Murphy, a user interface designer for Google's Chrome browser and the Chrome operating system based on it, pointed to image and video concepts of a Chrome OS-based tablet that went live two days before the iPad launch. ( CNET) - Who could resist the months of hype that paved the way for Apple's iPad debut last week? Apparently not Google, which has shown its interest in tablet computing with its browser-based Chrome OS.












Google chrome os tablet