Google Releases Chrome Beta for Phone
Google has decided that there shouldn’t be a browser for the desktop and a browser for the phone. Instead, there should be one, and it should be beautiful. Google has followed through on this decision, both announcing and releasing Chrome for Android earlier today.
Chrome of Android is only available for Ice Cream Sandwich Android devices and (eventually) above. And it brings some much needed polish to the mobile browser, even in its currently unfinished form. This browser changes lots of little things, to give you a much better browsing experience.
But there are several killer features on display here. My favorite has to be the tab management. Swipe left or right from the side of the screen, and you move to the next tab. That’s all you have to do, no buttons, no scrolling, nothing. If you need richer tab management, however, you can tap the tab button at the top and get a stack of your open tabs. You get graphical previews of each tab, of course, and as you scroll through the list, the tabs kind of pile on top of each other, getting out of the way so you can see other tabs. Its really more elegant than I’m describing it, any you should watch the video below to get a better idea of how it works.
Another killer feature is the integration of Chrome sync, just like you have on the desktop client. You can access all your favorites from other machines with little trouble. But Google has gone beyond that. Now, with sync, you can actually see what tabs you had open on other machines. Want to access a tab you have on your laptop back at the office? Simply navigate to that machine and click the tab. It will load.
On top of all these changes, Google has still managed to make the browser perform better. A sunspider test showed a marked improvement over Android’s current browser, and showed better performance than an iPhone 4S.
you can get Chrome for Android right now, from the market.
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