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The string includes the term "CrOS Touch," not just CrOS as before. • The "user-agent string" text that browsers supply so Web servers can deliver the appropriate version of a Web site- for touch user interfaces. But the first incarnation of Chrome OS-a pilot release intended for developers and testers rather than ordinary customers-arrived in a more polished laptop package called the Cr-48.Ī tablet version of Chrome OS, though, raises a big question about Google's strategy, because the company's tablet version of the Android operating system, Honeycomb, is just now arriving on the market with Motorola's Xoom and other products designed to compete with the leader of the tablet market, Apple's iPad.įor use in a tablet version of Chrome OS, Google's browser is getting virtual keys, including this design for a return key, for a screen keyboard.Ī number of changes in Chrome and Chrome OS source code that arrived in March and April reveal the tablet work. Initially it was aimed at Netbooks, the small, low-end laptops. We expect to see different partners build different kinds of devices based on Chrome OS, but for this initial release we are targeting the notebook form factor."Ĭhrome OS has been evolving since Google announced it in 2009. "We are engaging in early open-source work for the tablet form factor, but we have nothing new to announce at this time," the company said in a statement.Ĭhrome OS tablets, though, are not first on the list, the company said: "Chrome OS was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of form factors. Google acknowledged the tablet version of Chrome OS but wouldn't discuss details such as when the project's first version will be done.

But it does indicate that a tablet incarnation of Google's Web-app operating system is a near-term priority, not just an idea.

The work isn't a surprise, given that Google created mock-ups of a Chrome OS tablet more than a year ago. A Google mock-up from last year of a Chrome OS tablet is coming to fruition.ĭetails in Google's source code reveal that company programmers have begun building a tablet version of Chrome OS, its browser-based operating system.