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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- A leaked bug report offers extra data on Google’s new OS.
- Aluminium OS would be the merging of Android and ChromeOS.
- The brand new OS needs to be launched someday this yr.
Google’s plan to merge ChromeOS and Android was elevated above rumor standing a while in the past, and a latest bug report from Google (initially noticed by 9to5Google) offers the primary leak of any data relating to the brand new platform.
On Telegram, a tipster named Frost Core shared a hyperlink to a bug report (not accessible with out permission) centered on Chrome Incognito tabs, together with two screenshots and an outline. In line with 9to5Google, the outline let on that the gadget used was an HP Elite Dragonfly 13.5 Chromebook with a board/codenme “Brya(Redrix),” which runs a Twelfth-generation Intel Core (AlderLake-U) processor.
Additionally within the description was the construct quantity for ALOS (the codename for Aluminium OS, the merging of ChromeOS and Android), which is ZL1A.260119.001.A1, and the model of Android getting used is 16.
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Within the 9to5Google put up, an accompanying video reveals the brand new OS, which appears to be like similar to ChromeOS. There are some refined variations, similar to a taller standing bar (optimized for bigger screens) and a barely modified mouse cursor. One different distinction is discovered within the Chrome browser. In cell mode, the extension button is unavailable.
I additionally ran throughout a YouTube video by Shane Craig that discusses Aluminium OS and the laptop computer leak. In that video, Craig compares Alumunium OS to what we see on some folding Android telephones, the place, when the gadget is unfolded, the UI barely resembles a desktop.
In line with Android Authority, Google states that Aluminium OS is “constructed with synthetic intelligence (AI) on the core,” suggesting vital integration with Gemini. In that very same article, Android Authority quotes Rick Osterloh, Google’s SVP of Units and Companies:
“That is one other approach we are able to leverage the entire nice work we’re doing collectively on our AI stack, our full stack, bringing Gemini fashions, bringing the assistant, bringing all of our purposes and developer group into the PC area. And I feel that is one other approach during which Android is gonna be capable to serve everybody in each computing class.”
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For many who are anxiously awaiting the discharge of this new OS, it was rumored to reach someday this yr (2026), and that time-frame has been confirmed. There’s at present no particular date out there for the discharge.
