Gadgetory

hey this is Ellis with the verge checking out chrome for iphone and ipad so let's jump right in chrome on iphone ask you to first sign in with your google account once you do you'll see these tabs screens so you can go through your tabs you can flick one off the screen if you enter a tab you can do edge drag to actually go between them there's a little indicator bar at the top showing how far along the site is in loading but let's say you want to check out some tabs that you were looking at on another device so if you do new tab you get a window down here where you can look at other devices so here's my iPad last think two minutes ago so there's IG on facebook and gmail here's on my macbook air last synced eight minutes ago so you can actually see the the tabs that you have open on each computer and you can force this to refresh if you go out and then go back in and I'll see your bookmarks all your chrome bookmarks like mobile other desktop bookmarks so you can go through all these you can edit them and it's all really fast if you look up at the top of the screen you'll see Chrome's familiar omnibox going to web sites even though this doesn't use the Nitro JavaScript enhancements Mobile Safari uses is still really fast there's a menu up here to go to settings it's kind of like the one you'd find in Android and you can star your site so you can refresh the page there's actually no forward button because you pretty infrequently need it you only see it if you press back then you can see the forward button right there but up here again there are new tab there's new incognito tab which actually takes you into see you've gone incognito you can see the incognito is actually separate so if you go back to hear you can actually email the page from here you can find in page for words that you want to look up and request desktop site which is interesting because you can actually change the user agent from within the browser so you can get desktop sites then you can also dig a little deeper with regular settings you can change your search engine from google yahoo to bing you can save your passwords voice search works pretty well on here from the omni bar you can use series voice search if you want using the microphone down here like usually would or if you hit the X you can use google's voice search the verge to look up whatever you want one nice thing is that if you're logging into a site you've never been to before you enter in your username and password and Chrome for iOS will actually asked you down here do you want google chrome to save your password for this site you can exit you can hit yes or you can it never and those changes will take take effect in any other instance of chrome you're running chrome on ipad is virtually the same but you have the tabs up here you have a toggle in the top right that you switch between incognito and regular mode and you have this persistent star microphone and drop down menu on the side here but besides that it's pretty similar one cool thing though is that you won't get the animation but you can do the edge tab switch like you can on chrome for chrome for iphone so if we want to take a look at the other tabs from here if you do new tab you can swipe between most visited bookmarks and other devices so let's look at other devices and you can see the iphone we were just looking at right now is on my side the verge pitchfork back on the verge one of those valuable things here is that the way they pitch it if you're on your iPhone and you're checking something out and then you want to go on your iPad it'll be there so let's say we want to look at IMDb so I have I'm to be open on the iphone right now and let's say I am going over the couch I want to look at it on the ipad right here so imdb's loaded over here and let's just hit refresh on the ipad and boom IMDb is right there you can also move around tabs drag them around however you'd like and you can close them just like that just as easily chrome is pretty close in terms of speed with mobile safari but in some situations on JavaScript heavy webpages it's probably going to be a bit slower because it doesn't include apples nitro JavaScript booster if you use chrome everyday on your Mac or PC at home you're definitely gonna want to download chrome for iOS it's really smooth it works well and everything is just really easy to use well you do have to dig through a little bit for settings or to go through to your tabs or bookmarks unlike in mobile safari you just have a lot more space on screen because there's no navigation bar down there and even if it may be in some instances a little bit slower it's still definitely something you want to try