Chrome to Phone now available in Android Market

Chrome to Phone isn't a new product -- we've been using it since May, in fact -- but Google's second mobile announcement today (behind Voice Actions) is that its continuous client app is now "official" and available to all users (with Android 2.2 Froyo) via Android Market. As it was before, websites can be pushed from the Chrome browser to your Android device, with certain apps (Maps, YouTube) taking over for the browser when contextually appropriate. Additionally, the code is open, which we're hoping means this Chrome extension will find its way to other browsers. The team is "looking into" bringing the capabilities to other mobile OSs (the iPhone was specifically asked), but don't get your hopes up: nothing's been submitted, and we didn't get the feeling it was an active push. Incredibly useful? Yes, yes indeed.

[coitis1 Posted Aug 12th 2010 8:15PM]

This extension is great. It's great for pushing maps and or any site you are browsing before heading out. For those interested, there is also an extension available that does the reverse of this - it pushes sites from your phone to your browser. I haven't found too many uses for it, but it's a neat idea. It's called Android2Cloud

[Arithmetic Posted Aug 12th 2010 8:28PM]

Ive been using this for awhile, Firefox to Phone lol. I don't use Chrome, so FF add on fits perfect and I get the link INSTANTLY. This is a genius idea, kudos to Google!

[Vulpix Posted Aug 12th 2010 8:48PM]

@Arithmetic Wait till you try the map pushing functionality. God that was the one thing I wanted to do the most.

[epoch Posted Aug 13th 2010 12:03PM]

There is also an app for iOS called On The Go that does this from Mac to iPhone from a variety of browsers. http://bit.ly/bH5dIQ