When a tablet version of Chrome OS was teased back in February of last year, we found it a legitimately exciting proposition. Now that we have got Android’s Honeycomb iteration designed specifically for slates, however, we’re having to wonder just why Google’s still chasing that keyboard-less dream with its web-centric OS. CNET has been performing some snooping in and round the latest iterations of Chrome OS, where it’s discovered numerous pieces of circumstantial evidence, which includes a brand new onscreen keyboard, suggesting tablets are still greatly at the menu. Chrome OS kicked off life at the development device referred to as Cr-48 and may resume availability this summer courtesy of Acer and Samsung, though we’d reasonably assumed it might persist with notebooks now that Android’s creating a sincere effort on devices bigger than an EVO . Mountain View has responded to CNET’s queries with a horny inconclusive statement, saying only that “We’re conducting early open-source work for the tablet form factor, but we now have nothing new to announce as we speak.” Try last year’s concept video after the break.
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