Chrome for Android — the long-rumored, oft-requested grand unification of Google’s mobile and desktop browsing technologies — has just been announced today, and it’s being made available immediately as a beta release for phones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich. Though Android’s existing browser has long shared bits and pieces with desktop Chrome (notably WebKit rendering and Google’s V8 JavaScript engine), the release of Chrome for Android represents a more thorough synergy: they’re both now based on the open-source Chromium Project, which means it’ll be easier for Google to advance the products in better lockstep with one another — features, capabilities, fixes, and so on.
via Chrome for Android beta launches with place shifting, faster rendering, and card view | The Verge.
