With more touch-capable Chromebooks and Chrome tablets hitting the market, it makes sense for some updates to make the experience better. A new Chrome OS feature is bringing just that with larger touch points, icons and room for text in the omnibar.
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HP launched the Chromebook x2: A Pixelbook-looking Chromebook with a detachable screen. Starting at $599 and expected to be available on June 10, the Chromebook x2 bridges the gap between content consumption and productivity in a single device.
It should get easier to add emoji to any text field on a Chromebook or any other computing device that uses the Chrome browser thanks to an experimental option in the Chrome Canary Channel.
With the first Chrome tablet arriving later this month, Google is looking to tweak the Chrome OS touch interface to make it more tablet-like. Instead of today’s app launcher experience that shows five recent apps, the launcher will instead show in full screen mode, similar to an Android tablet.
A new Chromebook board dubbed “Atlas” is showing up in the Chromium commit logs with very little information other than a 3840 x 2160 display. That would be the highest resolution yet for a Chromebook.
Almost every time I tweet about or mention the Pixelbook I purchased a few weeks ago, I inevitably hear that the device costs too much. But Google has always focused Chrome OS and Chromebooks on what it calls the “three S’s” — Simplicity, Speed, and Security — for a range of markets.
Some students in rural schools have bus commutes of more than an hour and when they get home, they don’t have internet access. Enter Google’s “Rolling Study Halls” program, which provides Wi-Fi and devices on school buses. After a pilot effort, the program today expands to include 16 more school districts.