Google has made a series of announcements on the sidelines of CES 2022 including new features for Chromebooks, but also for Windows PCs.
The PC is one of the major trends of CES 2022. This is the battle for processors between Intel, AMD and Nvidia, but also the attempt to innovate on the market with new form factors. It is also one of the fields chosen by Google to announce an offensive in the world of the PC. The firm has announced several new features to facilitate the use of an Android smartphone with a Chromebook, but also with a Windows PC.
Simplified device configuration
First novelty, a simplified configuration thanks to a quick pairing of the devices. In the coming weeks ” When you turn on your Fast Pair compatible headset, your Chromebook will automatically detect it and pair with it with just one click “. Quick syncing of Bluetooth devices is a feature already found in Apple and Windows. At Google, only Android has benefited so far.
More interestingly, Google also announces a simplified configuration of a new Chromebook thanks to an Android phone for ” immediately access all the information you have already saved, such as your Google ID and Wi-Fi password “.
Still concerning Chromebooks, it will be possible to unlock your computer using a watch under Wear OS. This is not the only novelty that Google has presented for connected devices.
The official synchronization with Windows is coming
Until now, Google has only favored synchronization between Chrome OS and Android. A painful situation for the many users of Android smartphones with a Windows PC, the majority of users in short. The firm admits it “ for the first time with Android, we are also focusing on building apps for other platforms, like Windows “. At the end of 2021, Google announced the arrival of video games from the Google Play Store on Windows.
Now the firm would like to offer functions similar to those integrated on Chrome OS: fast pairing with Fast Pair between Windows and Android, synchronization of Bluetooth devices (headphones) and synchronization of SMS and files with Nearby Share.
Unfortunately, this does not mean working together with Microsoft, but working with PC manufacturers. Acer, HP and Intel are the first to work with Google on these solutions, which are slated to come to Windows later this year.
Google is taking advantage of CES 2022 to show how much it intends to strengthen the interoperability of our connected devices by taking advantage, among other things, of the Matter standard.
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