Google has unveiled a series of image and video mock-ups of a tablet PC based on its Chrome OS, the still-gestating operating system centered around its Chrome web browser.
Mountain View uncloaked its tablet “concept UI” early last week – two days before Steve Jobs announced Apple’s long-awaited tablet, the unfortunately named iPad. Google user interface designer Glen Murphy hoisted the mock-ups onto the Chromium Projects site, home to the open source incarnations of Chrome and Chrome OS.
Murphy calls these “visual explorations of how a Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware.” With a series a still images, he explores various software keywords, tool menus, and application launchers as well as a UI that puts multiple browser windows on the same screen. Chrome OS is essentially a Linux-based operating system that runs a single local application: Google’s browser.
Ha! This Google-Apple war could well be a lot of fun.
I wish at least one of these tablets would be water proof. So I can use it for taking field notes in my research plots. I have two broken HPLX 200′s in my drawer at work. I’d put them in a ziploc bag ang go. But since these are touch screen I can’t do that.
#12 I love it when a macfan gets passionate. It reminds me of a dog defending its master.
#18 Hahaha. Yeah, like choosing between a mac product and another mac product.
#19 Wrong! You cannot use any apps while on the phone. Sheep!
#22 Dude, how many ways can you miss the point? Are you forced to buy any Mac product?
#23 What’s the point I missed? macfans are masochists surrounded by the pleasure that god steve words convey and the warm feelings you get when you have a mac product in your hands.
#24 Strike three
BS, you can use apps while on the iphone 3G, if you are on the 3G network. I’ve done it in the past. I’m posting right now while calling my GF.
#26 Riiiiight. Still, nothing gets lost since there’s nothing you can really do on that toy buy play games, so no harm done if someone calls you in the middle of a Zippo flickering match.
Pedro,
your comment has no credibility.