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One of the primary focuses here at Chrome Unboxed is future hardware. After all, our early days were all about new devices! What is coming feels just as important as what is here now, so we will continue looking for the latest and greatest developments in the Chrome OS ecosystem.
Hardware releases in 2020 have obviously been pretty strange affairs across the board. From virtual events to outright cancelled ones, the standard vehicle of getting people together to launch new stuff is clearly out of sorts amid a global pandemic, and it feels like no one has been more affected by this than Google’s hardware […]
Since their inception, the Pixelbook line of Chromebooks has largely stayed in the premium lane. Sure, the Pixelbook Go was a tad bit of a departure from that formula, but not much of one. After all, the top trim of that device costs a cool $1399 and is easily one of the most expensive Chromebooks […]
![We may see a Pixel 4a 5G or Pixel 5 announcement alongside the Pixel 4a today [UPDATE: confirmed]](https://chromeunboxed.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/pixel4a5g.jpg){kind=tracking}
UPDATED 8.3.2020 @ 11:30am – Google went live at 11:00am EST to deliver a full blog post about the new Pixel 4a that will start shipping on August 20th. If I’m honest, a two-week availability window feels a tad bit unacceptable at this point with the phone already being delayed by months, but it is […]
We all know about the Google Pixel 4a by this point. It has been leaked extensively over the past few months and we all expected it to be launched some time in May. With all the craziness of the pandemic leaving Google’s yearly I/O developer conference completely cancelled, that date has just perpetually been pushed […]
One of the places we keep a regular eye on is the Geekbench results page. As time passes in 2020 and we just keep adding more and more in-development Chromebooks to our list of devices we’re tracking, it becomes a bigger undertaking each and every month to try and find new nuggets of info on […]
Just the other day, Kevin Tofel over at About Chromebooks came across an internal document from Google entitled HDR on ChromeOS and Beyond and in it, we get some interesting details on some upcoming software and hardware changes the Chrome OS team is eyeballing for the future. That future isn’t years away, either. Instead, it […]
Samsung has been deeply involved in Chromebook manufacturing since the onset of Chrome OS. Their Series 5 Chromebooks were among the first generally available Chrome OS devices on the market and their flimsy-but-affordable Series 3 Chromebook is responsible for my initial interest in Chromebooks to begin with. Remember the For Everyone ad campaings? If not, […]
I will never forget the build up to the second #madebyGoogle event in 2017. The anticipation. The excitement. Between the new Pixel 2 phones, a smaller Google Home speaker, the second iteration of Daydream view, and – of course – the Pixelbook, we were insanely excited by all that Google was debuting in the hardware […]
We’ve talked about this issue in the past, but it bears repeating until it is fixed: Chromebooks simply need better webcams. The standard 720p cameras that ship in most Chromebooks range from only adequate or just plain awful. There are only a few standouts available right now, and they are both from Google themselves in […]
From what we can tell at this point in 2020, there is little standing in the way of continued Chromebook development. More and more boards continue being piled on as we move through the year and it seems that, pandemic or no, new Chromebooks are being prepped left and right. Currently, boards fall into a […]
![All the upcoming Chrome OS devices and boards we’re tracking right now [UPDATE: 7/9/2020]](https://chromeunboxed.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/NewWaveChromebooksEarly2020-2000x1125.jpg)
UPDATE – 7/9/2020: Today, we are adding three new devices in development: two in the ‘Dedede’ line of Chromebooks that employ the latest small-core processors from Intel in the Jasper Lake 11th-gen line and one in the ‘Volteer’ group. All of these devices come with far better GPUs than their predecessors, both in the large […]
I really do love Pixel phones. I’ve enjoyed them since the beginning and I loved the Nexus line of phones prior to that. Well, for the most part, anyway. There’s just been something so comforting and reliable about handsets that aren’t overly concerned with new gimmicks and pseudo features and, instead, are focused on the […]
