Google brings Chrome browser to Android

[Simon]

Google has unveiled a beta of the Chrome browser for its Android operating system.

Google launched the beta of its desktop browser in 2008 and mobile OS in 2009, but until now Chrome hasn't been available on Android, which has shipped with a basic, default browser.

The beta for the mobile Chrome browser will initially only be available on version 4.0 of Android - better known as Ice Cream Sandwich.

"Like the desktop version, Chrome for Android Beta is focused on speed and simplicity, but it also features seamless sign-in and sync so you can take your personalised web browsing experience with you wherever you go, across devices," said Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president for Chrome, in a post on the Google blog.

In other words, Chrome for Android syncs with the desktop version - similar to rival Firefox's system - meaning signed-in users can see tabs that are open on a PC or other device and access bookmarks.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/372649/google-brings-chrome-browser-to-android

[Rik]

I wonder what took them so long?

[pctech]

I'll stick to firefox across devices thanks.

[Rik]

You're welcome.

[pctech]

 

[TheMonkey]

Apparently the new browser doesn't support Flash either. Seems Jobs was right after all.

[Simon]

Doh!

[Technical Ben]

I wonder what took them so long?

These companies seem to be so vast, that there is no interconnection. The part making the Phones may not even have seen a single worker who makes the website. "What? We have a search engine? I thought we were suppose to use Bing?!" 

[pctech]

Until it acquired Motorola Mobility, Google did not have anything really to do with the hardware side, it simply licenced the Android source code to handset and tablet manufacturers who customised it to run on their hardware and preinstalled it, much as Microsoft does with the likes of Dell with Windows and it is doing for Windows phone 7.