Gadgetory

everybody's dieter with the verge and I'm here with a Chromebook pixel to doing Chromebook pixel two things I've got a bunch of tabs open in Chrome running Chrome OS of course I've got a touchscreen here but what's special about this Chromebook but what soon gonna be special about all Chromebooks is they also run full Android apps natively right into a bunch of windows here I want to show you how it looks so here as I said we are inside a Chrome browser but in addition to Chrome browsers we have Android apps so here is Photoshop Express I have a photo of my good friend Nilay Patel and we can edit it here this is all happening locally this is a local image and it's using an Android app and then I can save it and now I can just switch to word and this is the version of word that Microsoft makes for Android they didn't customize it for this thing it's just a straight Android version of word and we can't go ahead and insert that photo that we just saved Photoshop right here and there it is it's in my word document and if I'm even more excited about it I want to share this thing I can click the share button and this is the actual Android share thing that you're used to on Android but they've integrated it into Chrome's interface so it feels really native so I can just go to this email here and I can send it out to somebody which is pretty exciting so in addition to that there's also like basically any app that you install on your phone will work here it's got the full Google Play Store and it syncs up your apps with your phone so we can all tab through different apps we can also even if you'd like play a game this is using a touch screen but you could imagine that if the developer just took a little while to work on this they could add keyboard support for this thing as you can see this is like really responsive and it looks really really good and that's because this is not running in an emulator this is a full Android device that has the full power of the processor and the RAM behind it which is really impressive and then one last thing I want to show is we've got these Android apps open but we've also got Chrome open and they're actually windowed so you can with Android n resize your windows move them around it all just feels like it's all one operating system even though some of them are going to be Android apps and some of them are going to be chrome tabs so that's it we are still really early with Android apps on Chrome OS it's coming to the developer channel in early June and then it'll hit the beta Channel after that and then it'll get released to everybody later on this year so while it's a little bit not super ready for everybody to use now I am super duper impressed with what I've seen so far the apps are really fast really responsive and really well integrated in Chrome OS you should be excited