Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Mathews on 8/18/10

Filed under: OS Updates, Hardware, Google
The title pretty much says it all on this one, folks.

Yes, our source tells us that Google is building a Chrome OS tablet.
It's real, and it's being built by HTC. No surprise there, since HTC
churned out the Nexus One for Google.

Yes, they plan to offer it in conjunction with Verizon -- which
probably doesn't come as a shock to anybody at this point. The two
recently tag-teamed that Net Neutrality proposal and they've had plenty
of discussions in the past about cooperating in some capacity.

As for the launch date of November 26th, well, that's all kinds of
brilliant. It's Black Friday 2010 and the busiest shopping day of the
year in the U.S. -- so what better day to have a shiny new tablet in
the cabinet at Verizon kiosks and stores all over the country? You can
bet Google's Chrome OS tablet will be heavily subsidized, and I'd go so
far as to say it will be substantially cheaper than the iPad -- if not
totally free -- with a Verizon data contract.

So what will the Google tablet pack for hardware? While our source
didn't provide any specifics, my guess is that the device could be
based on NVidia's Tegra 2 platform and sport a 1280x720 multitouch
display, 2GB of RAM, minimum 32GB SSD, WiFi/Bluetooth/LTE connectivity,
GPS, webcam, and possibly expandable storage via a multi-card reader.
Again, these were not given to us by our source, but expect it to be
every bit as geek-tastic as the Nexus One -- Google won't want to
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