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Introducing Chrome for Android

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Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by nickpresta »

Direct Market Link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.android.chrome The download is a hefty 16MB.

Features:

* Chrome-to-mobile, Sync bookmarks, history, settings, Auto sign-in

* Bandwidth management (preload webpages)

* Privacy settings

* Developer tools: Tilt Scrolling, USB Web Debugging (debug web pages from Chrome Desktop via USB??)

* Incognito mode

* About screen: http://i.imgur.com/Ahr6t.jpg

The homepage has a "sync" icon with all the tabs open on your desktop: http://i.imgur.com/6eadl.jpg

It can be a little slow to sync pages between devices, but works much better than Chrome to Phone.

Overall, Chrome Beta is a welcomed improvement.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by nextparadigms »

trotsky wrote: post #39

Chrome is now available in Beta from Android Market, in select countries and languages for phones and tablets with Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. What tablets have official ICS on them? Is ICS even fully tabletized? I thought they had said they were putting that off until Jelly Bean.

I believe Transformer Prime and Xoom have it right now. Also the $79 Ainol Novo7 tablet.

They never said they will put it off until JellyBean. The only semi-official rumor about JellyBean was that they post-poned some "major changes" that were coming to ICS initially.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by angryasian »

trotsky wrote: post #39

Chrome is now available in Beta from Android Market, in select countries and languages for phones and tablets with Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. What tablets have official ICS on them? Is ICS even fully tabletized? I thought they had said they were putting that off until Jelly Bean.

Running CM9 / ICS on touchpad. ICS is fully tabletized, better than my ipad, on an alpha build full of bugs.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by vertr »

oflannabhra wrote: post #32
dangrossman wrote: post #20

With Android 4.0 at 1% market share, it'll be a long time before most people can even try this. http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...

Yeah, while I'm generally excited about this, I won't be able to use it anytime soon, unfortunately.

Root and install a 4.0 rom!

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by loudmax »

nod wrote: post #26

I'm rather confused that Google seems to be aiming to fragment the browser market for its own platform. I already wasn't looking forward to supporting/testing both Browser and Firefox on Android... Is Google just this disorganized internally?

Chrome and the old Android browser are both based on WebKit. Google will almost certainly make Chrome the default browser for new editions of Android, and will likely push for it on IOS and Windows phone.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by dasmoth »

dochtman wrote: post #23

Too bad it's only available in "select countries", which certainly don't include the Netherlands... Probably just the US and Canada? Kind of old-fashioned.

Just installed it in the UK.

I'm guessing it's a localization issue. Although for a Beta, I don't see why they can't just offer everyone who's keen to try it the en-us version.

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