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Googlebooks feel like the first laptops built for Android owners

📅21 September 2026 at 13:00
📰The Verge
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Googlebook OS is a little bit like ChromeOS and a whole lot like Android.

There's a good chance that my next laptop will be a Googlebook. If you're an Android user like me, then yours might be too, because Google is making a compelling pitch: The Googlebook does for the Android phone what the MacBook does for the iPhone (and then some).
John Maletis, Google's head of laptops and tablets, said at my press briefing that the Googlebooks were designed to "work seamlessly with your Android phone." You can start using an app on your phone then pick it up on the laptop, navigate your phone's files from the laptop, run any phone app from the computer, and manage all your notifications in one place.
It's a good pitch. A …
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