Google and Verizon Announce New Tablet
May 12, 2010 Google
The Wall Street Journal recently confirmed that Google will bring a tablet to the market in cooperation with carrier Verizon Wireless. Pricing, manufacturer, launch date and OS of choice have yet to be revealed, although the platform options are a bit limited: Android or Chrome OS.
Verizon’s CEO told The Wall Street Journal that the carrier is looking at Google’s full list of technologies in order to incorporate them into the new device. This is not shocking news by any means, since Google’s CEO spoke of a tablet since April and we’ve seen tons of images leaked on the web, portraying the device (not confirmed to be real, though).
This announcement increases the competition between Apple and Google, as Android recently surpassed the iPhone on the US smartphone market. Let’s see who makes the tablet and how well it will perform, in comparison to the iPad.
[via mashable]
Tags: Android tablet, Chrome OS tablet, Google Tablet, Verizon Google Tablet
Android Tablet Prototype Shown Running Flash and Adobe AIR (Video)
May 9, 2010 Google
A recent web 2.0 event in San Francisco included the presentation of an Android tablet prototype, that can be seen in action in the video below. This supposed Google tablet is able to run Flash and Adobe AIR with ease. The first video shows Wired.com Adobe AIR app running full screen mode.
The second video, available after these lines, shows a YouTube video playing on the tablet’s browser. It’s interesting to mention that the presenter said that this device is an Android prototype by Adobe, whatever that means.
We were expecting to see a Google tablet by now, since the new visual keyboard implemented in the Google Search sure looks like touchscreen material.
[via Phandroid]
Tags: Android tablet prototype, Google Tablet, tablet running Adobe Air video, tablet running Flash
Google Purchases BumpTop; Innovative 3D Multitouch Desktop Ready for Android Tablet?
May 2, 2010 Google
The Google Tablet is getting closer to reality, it seems and a hint in this direction could be the recent acquisition of BumpTop, done by the search engine giant. In case this is not a familiar name to you, here’s the BumpTop 3D multitouch desktop UI, shown in action in the following video:
Till now, the software ran on Windows 7 and OS X, but it seems it’ll only stick with Google for now, so we might see it on Chromium or Android OS. BumpTop is officially “no longer for sale” and we take this purchase as a sign pointing towards the launch of the Google Tablet. We paranoid?
[via mobilewhack]
Tags: 3D multitouch desktop, BumpTop video demo, Google buys BumpTop, Google Tablet
Google’s Android Tablet Coming Soon
Apr 13, 2010 Google
The rumour of the day in “Tablet Land” is that Google is preparing its very own Android tablet, or better said “an e-reader that functions like a computer”. New York Times claims that Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently detailed the mystery device during a party in LA.
The main appeal of this tablet is the fact that it relies on Android and it has access to cloud solutions, so it’ll easily rival the iPad, specially if the hardware on board performs well enough. It’s important to mention that Android Marketplace has become a great app store, although it’s way behind iTunes App Store, but still second best is reasonable enough.
Word has it that Google has been working with an Asian partner on this device, in order to keep matter discrete and the specs a secret. Odds are that this partner is Samsung, but LG could also be an option. What about HTC?
[via tgdaily]
Tags: Android Marketplace, Android tablet, cloud solutions for tablet, Eric Schmidt, Google Tablet
Google Tablet Shown on Video, Running Chrome OS
Feb 2, 2010 Google
Just a week after seeing Apple’s tablet, we’ve come across a video showing Google’s Chrome OS running on top of a prototype tablet. This doesn’t necessarily mean that Google will be making a tablet of its own, but as long as their software is on board, the device is still a challenger for the iPad and any other similar device, for that matter.
These images were launched on the web by Glen Murphy, Google’s Chrome UI lead designer and they show the result of the brainstorm process of the team behind Chrome OS. Expect multiple Google Tablet models to be launched, since there’s not a single device using Chrome OS, but more, with screens ranging from 5 to 10 inches.
We have to mention that the Google Tablet seems a big bigger than the Apple iPad, which is not bad, specially with that cool virtual keyboard. Also, this neat concept supports multitasking and you should know you can watch in action in the video below:
Tags: Chrome OS tablet, Chrome OS tablet images, Chrome OS Tablet video demo, Google Tablet, multitasking
