Two days ago Google launched its new web browser, called Google Chrome. Quickly lots of people downloaded it to have a try and see how it worked. After some testing time I can say that it does run fast. With high probability, the reason is the new browser engine it uses, launching each website and tab like a new process and in a smart and easy way.
But after testing it I thought “Ok but, will Google provide a Chrome version for mobile devices?”. And surprisingly I got an answer from Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, who talked about this in an interview at the Chrome launch event. In the event he said that Chrome will make its way to Android, the company’s mobile phone operating system and software suite.
Brin also said that both Android and Chrome have been developed separately but that now the two projects are public and nearing their first final releases, it’s probably that Android’s browser “is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack”, pointing to JavaScript improvements as one area. Chrome and Android’s current browser both already employ WebKit, an open-source project for the process of interpreting the HTML code that makes up a Web page and rendering it on a screen, what makes them get closer.
With this on-working state browser and the current mobile browsers, we start to have the chance to choose a web browser for our mobile device, although in some cases it depends on the O.S. our device has. Below you can find a little table with the current mobile web browsers, the O.S. they support and the development state.
I wish all these browsers were cross platform and then we could forget about our device O.S. and choose the one we like most even if we change our phone.
Via MobileCrunch
September 9th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
hi thanks for the info. am trying to see if I can download chrome to my mobile phone. I have a mac pc and when it went to mobile me I lost my mac email on my phone. finally gave up and down loaded my gmail on to the phone. hope chrome works better than mobile me.
September 9th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Pinkie, Im not sure what you mean. MobileMe is a apple file host system, Google Chrome is a web browser by google.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:15 am
About Chrome for mobile devices is still a project in development, so you will not (yet) be able to download it, but you can do for Windows computers (they are working on Mac and Linux versions).
And about MobileMe from Mac, this product still has some bugs, like we already posted. I hope you can find a solution in Apple’s forums.