With all of that in mind, using a Googlebook is a bit of a revelation — when you think about the experience as less of a full-fledged laptop replacement and more of a potential future for a revamped Android tablet.
The Googlebook-Android tablet connection
Consider: In many ways, Googlebook OS picks up where Honeycomb left off 15 years ago — as far as the interface itself is concerned. It feels like a familiar Android environment, for anyone who’s used Android on a phone, but with some thoughtful touches that make it more sensible in that larger-screen setting. Everything from having the clock in the upper-left corner alongside a split-apart notification panel and Quick Settings area in the right to having the same desktop-style taskbar we’ve seen on recent Android foldables just feels right when you frame a Googlebook as a tablet and not, first and foremost, a work laptop.
The Googlebook desktop feels like a natural Android tablet interface.
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Plain and simple, it’s Android — only optimized for a larger screen. And, thanks to its ChromeOS-inspired elements, it adds in the advantages of a less restrictive big-screen browser environment and smarter tools for interacting with your phone. The elements that feel awkward for a work laptop don’t matter as much in an Android tablet, which you’re more likely to use as a touch-centric supplement and companion to your workday computer and as a device where productivity is more of an occasional add-on as opposed to the primary purpose.
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