Google has just announced that the first Googlebooks are now available to pre-order and will go on sale in the US on 4 October. Announced in May, it’s a whole new type of laptop that was designed to work with Android phones. The first Googlebooks will come from partners Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. But first, what’s a Googlebook?
What’s a Googlebook and who is it for?
According to Google’s head of laptops and tablets, John Maletis, Googlebooks were designed “to work seamlessly with your Android phone.” To do that, it runs Googlebook OS – an OS that’s based heavily on Android and looks somewhat like a cross between Android and ChromeOS.
Once you connect your Android phone to a Googlebook, the two become an extension of each other. Notifications are shared, as are files and photos, and you can even run apps on your phone on the Googlebook.
You can also hand off apps from each other. For example, you could be browsing a page in Chrome on your phone, and then pick up exactly where you left off on your Googlebook. If this sounds familiar, Mac and iPhone users have been enjoying some version of this as part of Apple’s suite of Continuity features.
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