Google Said to Be Working on Touchscreen Chrome Devices

Google's Chrome OS has only ever been on specially-designed laptops and Chromebox desktops. Any touchscreen device produced by Google has run the company's mobile operating system, Android. However, it seems Google may soon bring Chrome to touchscreen devices.

Announced in the summer of 2009, Google's Chrome OS was officially launched in December 2010 in the form of the Cr-48, a reference hardware design that Google gave to testers and reviewers beginning. The first retail machines did not go on sale until May 2011. The Wall Street Journal didn't mention when these new touchscreen Chromebooks would go on sale, just that 'people familiar with the matter' said it would be this year.

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  • scythe944
    1. Take Nexus 7
    2. Put Chrome OS on
    3. Sell as new product
    4. Profit!
    Reply
  • roger smith
    touch screen like an android tablet has? so what exactly is the point of chrome again?
    Reply