Introducing Chrome for Android

Post by lostsock » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 11:43 PM UTC

angryasian wrote: post #43

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.

Post by estel » Wed, Feb 08, 2012, 12:14 AM UTC

lucaspiller wrote: post #25

I'm guessing this shares code with Chromium, so will it be open source too? EDIT: Looks potential: http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/deeper-look-at-chrome-for-a... "With hardware-accelerated canvas, overflow scroll support, strong HTML5 video support, and new capabilities such as Indexed DB, WebWorkers and Web Sockets, Chrome for Android is a solid platform for developing web content on mobile devices."

Post by adorton » Wed, Feb 08, 2012, 12:19 AM UTC

ootachi wrote: post #179

trotsky wrote: post #16

Decoupling the browser from the OS is one of the best things that could happen for android security going forward. While it won't help people who can't get upgrades to ICS, at least it will solve the future problems of people who get stuck on 4.x while their OS browser slowly becomes more and more exploitable. I have one phone that is still on 2.2 - it is trivially easy to own the phone with a little bit of javascrip…

You could always download an alternative browser, such as Opera.

Post by hahainternet » Wed, Feb 08, 2012, 12:45 AM UTC

schraeds wrote: post #119

nextparadigms wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, because of shortsightedness from both Google and HTC (HTC mostly), phones back then only had like 450 MB internal storage, and from that only 250 MB were for the OS itself. This means an ICS install would be severely limited by the hardware (I think a full ICS install is significantly bigger). Modders might be able to put ICS on it by cutting apps and features, or doing other kinds of hacks to extend t…

Is it HTC or Google's responsibility to provide future-proof reference designs and specs?

Post by Steko » Wed, Feb 08, 2012, 1:09 AM UTC

notatoad wrote: post #137

schraeds wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple seems to be able to innovate iOS while providing robust and timely updates for older devices.

this is a bad analogy, apple does not backport features to old versions of their OS, they put their new OS on old handsets. google puts their new OS onto old devices as much as they can too, the problem is that the carriers and other handset manufacturers don't. i'm sure google would love if everything would start running ICS, but it's not their responsibility.