Tag Archives: Chromebook

Last year, prior to the Pixel phone announcement there was a lot of hype surrounding a possible Google Pixel Chromebook also arriving at the same time, running Andromeda. For one reason or another the Chromebook/laptop failed to materialise and Andromeda was shelved. Fast forward 12 months and we are seeing …

Lenovo has become one of the mainstays of the Chomebook landscape with several different models currently on the market. Today they took the wraps off their latest Chromebook offering, the Lenovo Flex 11. The Flex 11 incorporates a 360-degree hinge and a touch display making the Flex 11 a great …

The report of my death was an exaggeration – Mark Twain That famous remark by Mark Twain has been misquoted many times, just as Rick Osterloh of Google seems to have been at MWC this week.  Several days after TechCrunch (followed by the entire blogosphere, ourselves included) took Rick Osterloh’s …

If you’ve been sleeping for the past year you may have missed a few things. Tablets, especially Android Tablets, aren’t doing so well, I wouldn’t call them dead but they are definitely a low volume market. Android apps are coming to ChromeOS, and all indications are it’s actually going to …

Lately all the Chromebook discussion has been around the convertible Chromebooks that are apparently coming sometime in 2017 — notably the Lenovo Yoga and the Samsung Chromebook Pro. Now there is another option on the horizon, a detachable Chromebook. ChromeUnboxed are reporting that they have discovered some fairly “concrete” evidence …

The other day I asked for a show of hands regarding who wanted a Samsung Chromebook Pro (yet to be released or announced officially). Now it seems that we may have been too hasty, with some tasty offerings from Lenovo. We reported yesterday on Lenovo’s confirmation of a Yoga Chromebook, …

Lenovo is simply killing it this year: with the Moto Z and its mods, the first Tango phone and the Yoga Book, Lenovo are on top of their game. When we took a look at the Android-powered Yoga Book we were impressed. However, many people have been clamouring to get their …

At Google IO back in May this year Google announced that Google Play and its apps would be coming to Chromebooks later this year. Then in June it arrived in the Dev channel of Chrome for some Chromebooks, but was yet to arrive for the bulk of Chromebook users who …

Here at Ausdroid we have reviewed several HP Chromebooks over the past few years. They are always well received and HP seem to refresh them often enough to keep us busy. This morning HP announced a new addition to their Chromebook lineup, the Chromebook 11 G5, following on from their …