Google move hints at Chrome for Android

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Android's unbranded browser is coming back into the WebKit fold.

The software--called simply "Browser" on Android phones and tablets--is based on the open-source browser engine called WebKit. It's long been disassociated from it, though, and now Google is trying to reunite the projects in a move that could portend the arrival of a branded Chrome on Android.

"We're looking forward to a much better collaboration with the WebKit community," Google's Andrei Popescu said yesterday in a mailing list message flagged by new Chrome developer Peter Beverloo and spotted by TechCrunch.

Convergence between the Android browser and Chrome seems inevitable. Tablets bring a more PC-like experience to browsing, and Google is of course keen on tablets with the arrival of version 3 of Android, aka Honeycomb. Google TV, also based on Android, has a browser that sports the Chrome brand. But what's been keeping them apart?

At the Google I/O show in May, Chrome Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai said it's because, although the browsers share some common code, the Android browser is "not based on Chromium," the open-source version of Chrome. The implic... [Read more]

Stephen Shankland 23 Aug, 2011

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