After a long time following the progress of Google to prepare Chrome OS to be used in tabletsFinally, this year some have been presented, but until now we had not had the opportunity to take a closer look at them: we leave you some video first impressions with one of them to see how this operating system adapts to the format.
A video contact with the first tablet with Chrome OS
Although it was announced a couple of months ago, we hadn't had a chance to take a closer look at the first tablet with Chrome OS, something that we were missing a lot, being as it is the only sample that we have of a concept that seems called to occupy a good part, if not all, of the space that now occupies Android tablets.
It's not the only one tablet with Chrome OS that has seen the light already, actually, because shortly after HP also announced theirs, but the latter adopted the 2-in-1 Windows format, with a detachable keyboard and a much larger screen that, in the end, left it a lot closer to traditional Chromebooks and it does not help us so much to imagine to what extent they can replace Android tablets or not.
At video that we show you, in any case, yes we can take a look at this 10-inch tablet with Chrome OS And, although as is customary in this type of video, some time is spent exploring the design and other sections, it leaves us many occasions to take a look at the interface and get an idea of what the user experience with it could be like.
A rather cold reception, for now
The video that we show you maintains a very positive tone regarding this first tablet with Chrome OS, but echoing the opinions that other media present at the New York event in which it was exhibited have left us, it must be said that not everyone seems to have been very convinced that this operating system is still really ready to arrive to tablets, at least not outside of the educational setting for which it was intended, after all.
For example, although the video insists that we can also use it as if it were a conventional Android tablet, since it has access to Google Play and its entire catalog of applicationsThere others who have been much more critical of this possibility, highlighting that without some of the basic controls around which the experience of use that operating system revolves (there is no home button or equivalent, for example) it becomes somewhat uncomfortable to handle and seems to clearly invite to be used with a keyboard.
Other criticisms focus on the fact that despite its 10-inch screen, an adaptation as good as one might wish to the format of conventional tablets has not been achieved, asking, for example, to be used especially in landscape position despite its design. It also turns out to be too thick and heavy for what we are used to seeing on iPad and Android tablets of its level.
In any case, it must be borne in mind that this is only the first of many and that the concept will continue to evolve and refine and that there is no doubt that if these limitations are polished, its potential to overcome the limitations of Android in other areas. it's huge.