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Introducing Chrome for Android

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Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

#62

Post by vertr »

ImprovedSilence wrote: post #54
vertr wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Root and install a 4.0 rom!

Have any good ROM suggestions? I'm looking for one somebody with first hand use of it can sell me on.

It is very phone specific for ICS right now. When Cyanogen 9 comes out there will be more 'standardization.' For now, I'd look up the dev forum for your phone on xda-developers and see if there are any good options.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by bvdbijl »

Just a note: the rendering in this app does not use Android's webkit! For example the rounded borders on ihackersnews.com are square! It seems that it doesn't use the namespaced -webkit-border-radius but only the normal border-radius Interesting

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by benologist »

bryne wrote: post #47
benologist wrote: post #3

Douche move making it require Ice Cream Sandwich while they don't require telcos to ship any of us upgrades.

Do you really still think Google has any say in the whole carrier upgrade thing?

You're right, it's not Google's fault that they're only armed with:

a) the only operating system that really competes with iOS while everyone struggle to compete with the iPhone

b) mountains of cash

c) a factory full of smart people solving much harder problems

It's much better to just abandon every single generation of Android and the hardware it shipped on!

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by gcp »

loudmax wrote: post #45
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.

Given that IOS is already on WebKit, there's no fragmentation here. WebKit has a monopoly on mobile.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by dermatthias »

ImprovedSilence wrote: post #54
vertr wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Root and install a 4.0 rom!

Have any good ROM suggestions? I'm looking for one somebody with first hand use of it can sell me on.

Definitely CynanogenMod. Probably (I haven't checked them all) the most complete and best testet Rom out there. Available for nearly every major Android hardware.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by Zikes »

vertr wrote: post #44
oflannabhra wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

I ran 4.0 via Cyanogenmod 9 on my Nexus S 4G for weeks, and unfortunately the bugs and constant app crashes got so bad that, as much as it pained me to do so, I went back to 2.3 yesterday. I love Android 4.0, but there doesn't seem to be a good, stable implementation of it yet.

Example issues:

  * Random reboots
  * Choppy playback in the Music app 
    (Amazon MP3 worked fine)
  * Random app crashes, particularly 
    games (possibly due to lack of official 
    4.0 support)
  * Poor GPS performance, occasionally taking 
    15-20 minutes to acquire a position (typically 
    solved more quickly by rebooting, but it takes
    several minutes to know there's a problem in the 
    first place)
It's difficult to blame the app crashes on the OS if the app doesn't claim to officially support 4.0, but that's still reason enough to wait.

I'm eagerly awaiting the day that CM9 is released, or MIUI releases their official 4.0 version, but until then I think it's better to stick with what works.

Edit: Formatting.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by dmbass »

ImprovedSilence wrote: post #54
vertr wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Root and install a 4.0 rom!

Have any good ROM suggestions? I'm looking for one somebody with first hand use of it can sell me on.

If you have a Droid X and can live without the camera, EncounterICS is unbelievably good.

Re: Introducing Chrome for Android

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Post by porterhaney »

Much like Facebook's S-1, Google is seeing a huge increase in mobile traffic but not strong way to monetize it via advertising. I'd wager the preview pane (and maybe even the browser itself) is a play to increase the interaction they get on mobile advertisements.
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