Posted on 08/18/2010 10:57:22 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
More details are emerging about a Chrome OS tablet set to launch for the 2010 holiday season. If the reports are accurate, HTC, Google, and Verizon are working together to launch a Chrome OS tablet on Black Friday to kick off the holiday shopping season.
The team of HTC, Google, and Verizon makes sense. Google has an intimate relationship with HTC--maker of many of the most cutting edge Android smartphones including the fabled Google Nexus One. Both Google and HTC have a solid relationship with Verizon--the largest wireless provider in the United States, and the leading purveyor of Android smartphones like the HTC Droid Incredible.
The HTC Chrome tablet will offer some much-needed competition for the Apple iPad. The Dell Streak is available now, but its diminutive size and phone functionality make it regarded primarily as a smartphone with a thyroid problem more than a tablet. The Samsung Galaxy Tab--an Android based tablet--is expected to launch this fall, but aside from that Apple stands virtually unopposed in the tablet arena.
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August is not quiet.
I hope there is a good priced wifi only version
I have never seen or had any expereience with the Chrome OS. If you have, what are your reactions?
any other alternatives comming out?
non-google, non-linux, non-apple?
Will have Tegra 2 processor, and run Google Chrome not Android...
Guess I should get it on my plate.
HTC has always delivered solid devices.
Frankly, as a serial traveler, I like the Dell Streak, but would like a larger slate with a slide-out keyboard (soft keyboards stink -— from everyone) and a built-in phone that also slides out and shares the data connection.
HP just acquired Palm and they have an operating system...
Oh and RIM has something of their own...
OH Intel and Nokia recently combined efforts on a joint thing to replace Intel's Moblin...
Here we go:
Nokia and Intel to merge Maemo, Moblin mobile operating systems
And Microsoft never gives up and they have a Windows 7 for the phones project I think.
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Now how is all of that for a shootout at the OK Corral?
Chrome is not an OS even though Google claims it is. Chrome is just a user interface stuck on top of a Linux OS.
Let me see if I still have my Compiz working.
OK...That still seems to work.
Spell Checker onwrds
that seems to be still kicking....
Hmmm...
They have a wrench gif at the far right and the drop down menu has extensions....be back in a bit.
On this Ubuntu it got installed in the Internet applications ...but I just moved it onto the desktop.
I need to put some serious time into looking at it.
By solid it take it you mean "pretty good" instead of solid as in well-manufactured, as opposed to the HTC EVO 4Gs that are falling apart?
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