Android Will Have A Version of Google Chrome
| by Rob Jackson on September 3rd, 2008 |
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We saw this coming a mile away. As we predicted, Android WILL get a mobile iteration of Chrome and this has been confirmed by the Google CEO himself – Sergey Brin – in an interview. But what will they name the new browser?
They could name it something completely different but it would make great sense for them to keep the brand in tact for obvious reasons. So lets have some fun and speculate what Google COULD call it. Feel free to make your guess in the comments!
The browser itself is called “Chrome” and the Open Source Project and Developer stuff is called “Chromium”, right? So the chances are that the mobile browser will be named some similar derivative. Chromium is a chemical element and the mineral ore called Chromite is made from it.
So could Android’s browser be called Chromite? Afterall, it sounds tiny and it IS made from the element Chromium so it makes sense logically. We’ll put that on the likely list.
They could also incorporate the word “Mobile” as most of these browsers do and ChroMo would make a lot of sense and it sounds pretty cool. But once Android launches and all the phandroids out there are browsing the web with ChroMo all day… thats exactly what people are going to call us Chromos. Yeah, umm no. Please Google avoid this at all costs… there is enough hate speech and hate crimes in the world, you don’t have to provoke it!
While Chromite and ChroMo are not only our favorites but seem like the most logical, we’ll throw a few more out there for laughs:
- ChroMini
- MiniChrome
- Michrome (Microsoft Diss?)
- Chromoid
- ChromeDroid
- Chromita (Spanish? Hehe)
- Mobile Chrome
- MobiChrome
We really think that Google will take Chrome and Android and create some incredible interactions. Many are speculating the potential for Chrome to be evolve into an OS of sorts… imagine if Chrome and ChroMo/Chromite allowed you to sync your phone to your computer using ChromeSync?
This is the start of something big and we couldn’t be more happy we’re here for the ride. Now Lets hear it… WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY’LL NAME THE ANDROID VERSION OF CHROME?
1. Lemon wrote on September 4, 2008
ChroMo!
2. TareX wrote on September 4, 2008
I’ve copyrighted ChroMo 3 days ago.
3. TareX wrote on September 4, 2008
But then it apparently takes 6 months to 1 year to confirm it… so it’s all urs Google…
4. Robotys wrote on September 4, 2008
how `bout “Chromosome” … that thing that contain DNA in it .. sound techy and small though.. but full of mouth.. hahaha
ps: call the one who use it: Chromosomes , and syndorome of it: Chromosomistic .. :D
Have fun!
5. jason wrote on September 4, 2008
chromo sounds stupid. chromite sounds really cool
6. TareX wrote on September 4, 2008
And then again, I’d read Brin’s answer and contemplate for a while about your title “Android WILL HAVE a version of Google Chrome”.
I see a pattern here, one that says, “Don’t take anything mentioned here seriously”.
7. phandroid.com wrote on September 4, 2008
@TareX
Directly from the article I linked to:
“Probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack,” Brin said, pointing to JavaScript improvements as one area.
And the brand name likely will follow. “My guess is we’ll have ‘Chrome-like’ or something similar,” he said.
8. JP wrote on September 4, 2008
“The No Facebook Mobile Browser “
9. TareX wrote on September 4, 2008
Oh my God the horrendous proof.
So you translated:
“Probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack,” Brin said, pointing to JavaScript improvements as one area.
and
“My guess is we’ll have ‘Chrome-like’ or something similar,”
to: “Android WILL HAVE A VERSION OF GOOGLE CHROME”??
why do you keep doing that? What’s next, “DELL WILL PRODUCE SMARTPHONE.”, based on an interview of Michael Dell saying the company is going to be producing smaller devices with smaller and smaller screens?
Quoting from Engadget:
They asked him will there be a Chrome version for Android, he said:
“Well,
“yeah,
“I guess that,
“probably,
“down the line,
“eventually,
“in a future version of Android,
“there may be,
“something,
“Chrome-like.”
So not exactly official news if you ask me.
10. Keith wrote on September 4, 2008
Chrome-plated
11. phandroid.com wrote on September 4, 2008
Stop trolling.
12. itugy wrote on September 4, 2008
How about Chromius or Michrome.
13. phandroid.com wrote on September 4, 2008
@TareX
Here… go criticize someone else for a change:
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/09/04/chrome-coming-to-android-duh/
14. George Toms wrote on September 4, 2008
Google Chrome is really fast!
Now I can sort 200,000 records inside of Browser (Chrome) just in 1 sec. (Faster than Microsoft Excel):
http://www.ardentedge.com/ex_if.htm
15. Bill wrote on September 9, 2008
KodaChrome (should be out of trademark by now)… nice retro feel to it for us old farts.
16. gary wrote on September 22, 2008
I think it will just be called Chrome and they will announce that Android will soon be ported to work on Desktop computers and you will no longer need Windows.
17. Jesse wrote on August 31, 2009
Chromlite, Chromita, Chromosaurus, Walter Chromekite, Pour one out for my Chromies.
18. marcelo wrote on November 21, 2009
all u guys need to stop fronting! just take this as a good thing, stop being so negative! i would love to have some-what Chrome in my phone, i think everyone would :)
19. wally wrote on November 25, 2009
Chromosexuals will run lose. ChromoSapiens (little android toys that you can control with a remote) will take over. Soon we will have ChromoPhobes.
I like MiChrome and Chromite
20. bill wrote on December 8, 2009
CHROMOVER ha
21. juan wrote on January 23, 2010
i like chromite. it sounds small and fun. like the android os. so it makes sense. but i feel most likely google will just call it chrome mobile or mobile chrome