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Google recently issued a press release where it announced the release of three new Chromebooks. These new Chromebooks have been designed in partnership with Acer, Asus, and Lenovo. The newly released Chromebooks include the Acer Chromebook 516 GE, ASUS Chromebook Vibe CX55 flip, and Lenovo’s IdeaPad Gaming Chromebook. In the press release, Google shared that “new Chromebooks bring together gaming hardware features, access to the latest games with cutting edge graphics through the cloud, and software designed to make gaming fast and easy.” Check out all the details about the new Chromebooks below –

Google’s new Chromebooks

Acer’s Chromebook 516 GE comes with a high refresh 120Hz WQXGA display with an anti=ghosting RGB keyboard. It comes equipped with Wi-Fi 6E connectivity, force-canceling, and DTS speakers. It comes with a few configurations in the RAM department with up to 16GB LPDDR4X and up to 256 GB storage option of NVMe SSD. It also comes with two CPU options, Intel Core i5-1240P or i7-1260P.

Google’s second collab with the Asus Chromebook Vibe CX55 flip comes with an advanced 144Hz FHD display. It also features an anti-ghosting keyboard. Besides Wi-Fi 6 connectivity and a 720p camera, it also comes with Harmon Kardon-certified dual speakers. Asus has shared that the Chromebook can be configured up to the 11th Gen Core i7. It features 16GB LPDDR4X RAM and 512GB of SSD storage.

lenovo’s IdeaPad Chromebook comes with a 120Hz WQXGA display, 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM, Wi-Fi 6E Connectivity, a quad-speaker setup with Wave audio tuning, and an RGB anti-ghosting keyboard. The IdeaPad Chromebook comes with either the Intel Core i3 or i5 CPU both being 12th Gen. It also comes with multiple storage options of 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB. The Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming Chromebook is priced at $599.

Back in CES 2022 in January, Google demonstrated new features to improve their “Better Together” ecosystem experience. Today, with the latest instalment of ChromeOS 103, users can finally experience features such as viewing the camera roll from your phone on your ChromeOS device through the Phone Hub interface, as well as Android’s reply to AirDrop, nearby-share to share Wi-Fi information between supported Google devices.

Beginning with the camera roll sharing, as it stands, the Phone Hub (pretty much the equivalent of the Your Phone app available on Microsoft’s Windows products) can allow the user to keep up with notifications sent to the phone, view recent Chrome tabs, and execute actions such as pinging the phone to locate it, turning on and off the hotspot, and changing the ringer settings on the android device.

Now, however, the application allows users to see their phone’s camera roll through the Chromebook. Sure, you might be thinking photos.google.com does the same thing? However, Google claims that this feature works completely offline as well. Tapping a photo will allow users to download the selected image to the Chromebook.

Google also announced Chromebook support for Google Fast Pair, which is a proprietary device pairing standard using Bluetooth Low Energy to enable the iconic “AirPods Pairing” window to make wireless accessories easier to use, but for a much larger range of devices that can be experienced on modern Bluetooth earphones and accessories on Android.

Furthermore, Google also claims that with the latest iteration of Nearby Share, “sharing is up to 10 times faster.” Finally, Nearby Share also adds a minor yet meaningful feature in the form of Wi-Fi credentials sharing, making sharing Wi-Fi passwords much faster and also much more secure between supported devices.