Engadget http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Chrome OS coming to ARM?]]>http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/24/chrome-os-coming-to-arm/http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/24/chrome-os-coming-to-arm/http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/24/chrome-os-coming-to-arm/#commentsImageMany moons ago, Google made it quite clear we wouldn't be seeing its browser-based OS on any tablets or phones, but it never said Chrome OS wouldn't run on devices powered by similar silicon. In fact, the issues tracker at the Chromium OS project shows that work's being done to get Chrome OS compatible with ARM architecture, and in particular a Samsung Exynos 5250 chip. That Sammy silicon appears to be inside a new bit of hardware, codenamed "Daisy," but deeper digging failed to provide further details about the mystery device. While it certainly seems like Google's working on a new ARM-powered gadget, it's important to note that the Chromium project functions largely via user contributions, so the work might not be directed by Mountain View. You don't have to take our word for it, though. Head on down to the source link to see the evidence first hand, and feel free to form your own opinion.

Chrome OS coming to ARM? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The open source version of Google's Chrome OS just got a zesty refresh. Capable of being housed in a mere USB stick, the latest image improves on Hexxeh's Vanilla release with hardware support for more WiFi models and NVIDIA 6 series GPUs and above. It will still benefit from regular updates to the latest Chromium build, while this Lime flavor arrives with full Java support and the promise of more plugins soon. The maker is also willing to accept suggestions for future device support. Chromium obsessives with hardware compatibility woes can try getting in touch at the source below.

Hexxeh adds a splash of lime to Chromium OS, brings extra hardware and plugin support originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>chrome osChromeOschromiumchromium osChromiumOshexxehimagelimenightly buildsNightlyBuildsopen sourceOpenSourceoperating systemOperatingSystemosvanilla nightly buildsVanillaNightlyBuildsMon, 05 Dec 2011 06:03:00 EST<![CDATA[Chromium's experimental touch UI demoed on video, made for meaty fingers]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/08/chromiums-experimental-touch-ui-demoed-on-video-made-for-meaty/http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/08/chromiums-experimental-touch-ui-demoed-on-video-made-for-meaty/http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/08/chromiums-experimental-touch-ui-demoed-on-video-made-for-meaty/#comments Chromium Tablet UI Google was pretty adamant at I/O that Chrome OS would not be coming tablets, but that hasn't stopped its open-source cousin from adding some touch friendly features. Chromium (the browser, not the OS) got its first tablet tweaks back in June, but this is the first time we're seeing them on video. While the larger icons, widgets, and virtual keyboard, may eventually make their way onto the rumored Seaboard, there's no guarantee these (obviously still early) experiments will ever debut as part of Chrome OS or even the browser. Check out the video after the break for a brief glimpse of this work in progress and, if you're feeling adventurous, hit up the more coverage link to download the latest source code -- just make sure to compile with 'export GYP_DEFINES="touchui=1"' to unlock the finger-friendly face of Chromium.

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Chromium's experimental touch UI demoed on video, made for meaty fingers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Update: Diligent researchers found the Chrome pillow. Peep it in the second source link. Thanks, Matthew.

Chromium OS running on a MacBook Air: somewhere, a mad scientist cackles in the night originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kogan, the Aussie company behind such gadgets as the fist-sized Bluetooth GPS watch and gesture-controlled IPTV, is adding a Chromium OS laptop to its family of Google-powered Agora products. The 11.6-inch computer has a spec list rivaling the midrange notebooks of 2006, including a 1.3 GHz Celeron processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 30GB SSD. That's not a lot of oomph, but with cloud-based storage and Google's open source Chromium running the show, this thin client laptop should be in decent shape. There's also a 3.5-hour battery, SD card reader, webcam, Bluetooth, and an HDMI output. Like all Kogan products, the Agora is only available in Australia (AUD 349, about $372) and the UK (£269, about $440), so if you live down under or across the pond and don't want to install the open-source (free) OS yourself, look for the laptop to hit Kogan's online stores tomorrow.

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Kogan Agora is world's first Google Chromium OS laptop, ships next week originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[Thanks, Marco]

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Details of Samsung's 'Alex' Chrome OS netbook leaked, Atom N550 in tow originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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1.2GHz Tegra 2 3D chips suggested by leaked slide, coming 'spring 2011' originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Inevitable? Perhaps. But there's still nothing like seeing Linux running on a device for the first time -- especially when it involves such a seemingly hacker-friendly device as the Google Cr-48 laptop. As you might expect, however, that required a bit more effort than your usual Ubuntu installation (not to mention a flick of that carefully concealed developer switch), but it isn't too far out of reach for the average user, and the complete process has thankfully already been explained in a thorough how-to guide. You can also, incidentally, keep Chrome OS around in a dual-boot config so as to not completely break Google's heart. Head on past the break for a quick video of the end result, and hit up the source link below for all the necessary details to do it yourself -- assuming you're lucky enough to actually have a Cr-48, that is.

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Ubuntu meets Google Cr-48 laptop, keeps Chrome along for the ride originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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They rocked our world yesterday with Gingerbread, the Nexus S and a Honeycomb-based tablet, but Google's not done yet -- today, it'll unveil a horse of a different form factor in Chrome OS. That's right, Mountain View's finally ready to share hard details about its instant-on operating system (and perhaps a netbook or three) and we're here in San Francisco liveblogging the whole thing.

Live from Google's Chrome event! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[Thanks, Aaron]

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iPad and Chromium OS dance on video originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>applechromechrome extensionsChromeExtensionschromepadchromiumchromium osChromiumOsextensionsgooglehackhackingipadportspotifyvideoThu, 30 Sep 2010 08:24:00 EST<![CDATA[Chromium OS infiltrates iPad, makes itself comfortable]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/29/chromium-os-infiltrates-ipad-makes-itself-comfortable/http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/29/chromium-os-infiltrates-ipad-makes-itself-comfortable/http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/29/chromium-os-infiltrates-ipad-makes-itself-comfortable/#comments What is this madness we see before us? Hexxeh, he who provides your nightly Chromium builds, has dropped a small but perfectly formed bombshell by revealing that he's managed to install Google's nascent OS onto Apple's hotcake of a tablet, the iPad. He's evidenced this feat by tweeting from the liberated slate, though one of his outgoing missives includes the dire warning that he'll "dash your hopes later, there are a few catches." Well, at least that gives us a little time to fantasize about Appoogle synergies before those dream-destroying details are revealed in full.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Chromium OS infiltrates iPad, makes itself comfortable originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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 Some more interesting stuff on the Chrome OS hardware front has started to pop up courtesy of Google's own Chromium OS bug reports. Multiple references have been made to a mysterious Acer ZGA machine, which we have on good authority is also referred to generically as Google's "dogfood device" in bug reports -- dogfood referring to the practice of using your own products before you unleash them on the world. Even more interesting, someone actually managed to post a syslog of the machine, which is running an Atom N455 processor, has a 8GB SanDisk pSSD-S2 drive, sports a webcam, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, an ambient light sensor (for screen dimming, or possibly a backlit keyboard), and a Synaptics touchpad. Synaptics makes all sorts of touchpads, but is best known for its higher-end innovations, such as the MacBook-style clickpads found in the HP Envy series. Of course, all of these specs could change, or this machine could be merely in as a test bed for Chrome OS, and not planned for market -- like Microsoft is using its ASUS prototype with Windows Phone 7 -- but a July 26th mention of a "PVT run" (Product Verification Test) could point to this machine being almost ready for actual production.

[Thanks, Mark P]

Acer 'ZGA' Chrome OS netbook starts popping up in Google bug reports originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>acer zgaAcerZgachrome osChromeOschromiumchromium osChromiumOsdogfooddogfood deviceDogfoodDevicegooglenetbooksmartbookzgaTue, 24 Aug 2010 14:53:00 EST<![CDATA[Google Chrome gets some early device orientation 'plumbing']]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/06/google-chrome-gets-some-early-device-orientation-plumbing/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/06/google-chrome-gets-some-early-device-orientation-plumbing/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/06/google-chrome-gets-some-early-device-orientation-plumbing/#commentsWe remember well the first time we managed to put an accelerometer in our possession to good use: back when the MacBook Pros started shipping with them as sudden motion sensors to protect the hard drive, someone hooked up some light saber noises to the tilt motion. A few months later we were pretending to make light saber noises with the Wii, and then the iPhone came along and democratized the accelerometer-based light saber noise for all of humanity. Next up? The browser. Firefox 3.6 already supports this capability, and now Chromium is getting some early work in that direction as well -- and with the browser-as-OS that Google's Chrome OS represents, Chromium's support of this feature is welcome news indeed. We hear that light saber noise-producing low fat snacks are next on the docket!

Google Chrome gets some early device orientation 'plumbing' originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Freescale's 7-inch tablet runs Android, Chromium OS or Linux, costs $200 (video)

Freescale's 7-inch tablet runs Android, Chromium OS or Linux, costs $200 (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[Thanks, Amrita]

New Chromium OS build brings full NVIDIA Ion acceleration, hope for the future originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Google mum on Chrome OS touch support, Chromium devs show us how it might look anyway (video)

Google mum on Chrome OS touch support, Chromium devs show us how it might look anyway (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Chromium OS lands on the Archos 9, doesn't do much originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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64-bit support for an OS designed primarily for low-powered netbooks may not be at the top of everyone's list, but it looks like those hoping to crank Chrome OS up a notch are now finally in luck. While it's of course still completely unofficial, and pre-alpha, the OS is now available in a 64-bit port called ChromiumOS64, which even includes niceties like Xen virtualization support and a relatively modest 1GB download size. Hit up the link below to get started.

Chromium OS gets unofficial 64-bit port originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>64-bit64-bit os64-bitOschromechrome osChromeOschromiumchromium osChromiumOschromiumos64OSMon, 07 Dec 2009 13:33:00 EST<![CDATA[Acer to launch first Chrome OS netbook, Android-based Aspire One sales disappoint]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/acer-to-launch-first-chrome-os-netbook-android-based-aspire-one/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/acer-to-launch-first-chrome-os-netbook-android-based-aspire-one/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/acer-to-launch-first-chrome-os-netbook-android-based-aspire-one/#commentsAcer loves it some Google. And unless Google's trying to stamp out your revenue stream, who doesn't? Now Acer chairman, JT Wang, says that he expects to be first to market with an official Chrome OS netbook -- sometime in the second half of 2010 according to DigiTimes' sources. In fact, JT says that Acer's been working on a Chrome OS device since mid-2009. This despite admittedly weaker than expected demand for its dual-boot Android netbook, the Aspire One AOD250. Guess even the Google halo isn't enough to shoehorn its smartphone OS into a market dominating position on cheap ultra-portables. It's worth pointing out that DigiTimes' moles aren't saying anything new with the launch time-frame since Google's target for its gold Chrome OS build has been 2H of 2010 ever since the lightweight OS was announced. Not that the timing matters too much since we'll likely be seeing plenty of Chromium OS netbooks flooding the grey market long before the second half of 2010.

Acer to launch first Chrome OS netbook, Android-based Aspire One sales disappoint originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>acerandroidAndroidMarketaod250aspire oneaspire one aod250AspireOneAspireOneAod250chrome osChromeOschromium osChromiumOsdigitimesgoogle newsGoogleNewsjt wangJtWangnetbooksmartbookwangWed, 02 Dec 2009 04:37:00 EST<![CDATA[Chrome OS 'Diet' version fits on a 1GB USB key, brings more WiFi support]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/chrome-os-diet-version-fits-on-a-1gb-usb-key-brings-more-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/chrome-os-diet-version-fits-on-a-1gb-usb-key-brings-more-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/30/chrome-os-diet-version-fits-on-a-1gb-usb-key-brings-more-wifi/#comments Not everyone has a 4GB USB key or SD card just lying around, which was required to run Hexxeh's first build of Chromium OS, and we'd say that 8GB keys are exponentially more rare, which is what Dell requires with its build of the Chrome OS open source variant. Well, you can cancel that Fry's run, because Hexxeh is back with a Chrome OS Diet flavor, which cuts the fat and gets the OS onto a 1GB drive. It supposedly doesn't cut anything features-wise, and actually improves WiFi support since it's based on a newer build -- check out that compatibility list source link for the full story on that.

Chrome OS 'Diet' version fits on a 1GB USB key, brings more WiFi support originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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