Google is announcing a new line of laptops coming in the fall called Googlebooks. Details are sparse for now, as the tease is just a small part of various Android announcements during Google's Android Show. But we do know this is a major new initiative in the laptop space for Google, seemingly designed to succeed […]
Tech Gadgets News Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook Google has a new operating system and a new laptop platform, but no hardware just yet.
Google has a new operating system and a new laptop platform, but no hardware just yet.
Google is announcing a new line of laptops coming in the fall called Googlebooks . Details are sparse for now, as the tease is just a small part of various Android announcements during Google’s Android Show . But we do know this is a major new initiative in the laptop space for Google, seemingly designed to succeed Chromebooks with something more capable: a platform running a long-rumored new operating system based on a fusion of Android and ChromeOS.
That operating system, through various leaks , has been referred to as Aluminium OS . Google isn’t announcing the OS’s real name or giving many details about it just yet. “We’ll have more to share on the exact OS branding later this year,” Peter Du of Google’s global communications team tells The Verge . “We can confirm it is not Aluminium — that is the codename, not the official branding.” Previous Next 1 / 3 We don’t know what this laptop will be, but it’s branded Googlebook.
Googlebooks will have a Magic Pointer feature that offers contextual suggestions whenever you shake your cursor and point it at something on the screen. Google’s examples include setting up a meeting by pointing at a date in an email or selecting images of furniture and a living space to visualize them together. Beyond your mouse pointer, Googlebooks will also feature the custom AI-created widgets that Google is also debuting today for Android phones and Wear OS smartwatches. I don’t know what kind of horrors people will be able to make into widgets, but Google gives the example of making one to organize your flights, hotel information, restaurant reservations, and another for creating a countdown timer for an upcoming family reunion. (It’s always flights, hotels, and restaurants, isn’t it?) Previous Next 1 / 4 Shaking the cursor to access Gemini and use Visualize Together. No idea why it mirrors the fake band image and makes the guitarists southpaws.
Googlebooks details are so light for now, they all fit on this one-pager.
We’ll just have to wait and find out — either for a proper product launch or for the inevitable leaks Google is known for .
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