When we first heard about Google considering about brining Chrome OS to the tablets, we thought that it was all nonsense. Now, conceptual designs are being made about how a Chromium-driven tablet will look.

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Most of the tech blogs are describing the Chromium as a mere Cloud OS and we admit that they were right. Until now. Google is aware of the fact that Apple iSlate will create a huge splash in the tablet world. So, Google has announced that it will be bundling media player with the Chrome OS.

“For example, you might just have a USB key that has a bunch of MP3s on it, so you want to be able to plug that in and listen to those MP3s. There might not be any controlling Web page for that activity, but it’s clearly something you need to be able to do in any reasonable operating system or browser. So we’re doing a lot of work to make Chrome and Chrome OS handle those use cases really well." mentioned Papakipos.

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Popular Chromium genius, Hexxeh has unveiled a new faster build of Chrome OS that he is calling as the Chromium OS Zero that brings plethora of enhancements and speed improvements over the previous official builds by Google. Other features include full extension support and better Wi-Fi (reduced Broadcom delay).

Upcoming build of Chromium OS by this famous hacker will include 3G modem support, multi-language support and a new login UI. Support for Flash is also in the tunnel.

The download size of the new build is under 250MB and can be stored on a small 1GB flash drive.

Latest build can be downloaded from here

It is not a new news that Chromium OS will be available on both x86 as-well-as ARM platform. Although we have seen it working fine on the x86-platform here and here, but we were yet to see an ARM processor running it.

Charbax from ARMdevices.net has posted a video which shows an ARM netbook equipped with Armada 510 processor running an early built of Chrome OS compiled for ARM platform. In the video one can see that it is running fine on it, but Flash is not yet supported. Also, folks at ARM are working to provide support for bringing hardware acceleration to the Chrome OS platform

The Armada 510 is a fairly powerful processor that supports 1080p video playback. It currently fully supports Windows Mobile, Android and Ubuntu. Here is another video of a (concept) tablet that is running Android OS and supports 1080p HD video playback

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Qualcomm has rejected all the rumors associated with the Qualcomm working on Chrome netbook. However, on the brighter side, they have vowed to support the Google in deploying the Chrome OS in netbooks and cheap computers.

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