Google Chrome Tablet To Challenge Apple iPad?
Will Google and a Chrome tablet lead the pack?
The latest buzz on a Chrome tablet comes thanks to the Chromium Projects, which helped lead development efforts of Google's Chrome operating system and this week is showing off a number of mockups on its Web site that indicate a Google Chrome-based tablet PC might not be far off.
The Chromium Projects is not a Google-operated web site, but a page devoted to potential Chrome tablets at the Chromium Projects shows off a number of photos and design ideas for a potential Google Chrome tablet.
While the Chromium Project clearly states "this is a concept UI under development" and "designs are subject to change," the site offers a number of photos and even a video.
Further, according to the Chromium Projects site, these are some of the Chrome tablet ideas currently on the table:
* Keyboard interaction with the screen: anchored split, attached to focus
* Launchers as an overlay, providing touch or search as means to access web sites
* Contextual actions triggered via dwell
* Zooming UI for multiple tabs
* Tabs presented along the side of the screen
* Creating multiple browsers on screen using a launcher
Apple may feel the heat of competition -- from its less-friendlier-by-the-minute old buddy, Google, no less -- right way.
Of course, tablets to rival Apple's iPad aren't exactly a new concept. There are quite a few non-Apple tablets already, with more on the way thanks to a glut of new tablet releases at this year's CES.