{"id":249738,"date":"2026-05-19T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/your-android-phone-already-does-what-googlebook-is-promising\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:00:09","slug":"your-android-phone-already-does-what-googlebook-is-promising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/your-android-phone-already-does-what-googlebook-is-promising\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Android phone already does what Googlebook is promising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-phone-already-does-googlebook-promising\/\">Your Android phone already does what Googlebook is promising<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-phone-already-does-googlebook-promising\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-phone-already-does-googlebook-promising\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every few years, the tech industry reinvents the wheel and convinces everyone they need it. This time around, it&#8217;s the Googlebook\u2014a new category of laptops that&#8217;s built around Gemini integration and is perfectly in sync with your Android phone. It sounds great until you realize these are just better-designed Chromebooks selling something you likely already own.<\/p>\n<p>I installed Linux on my Pixel to turn it into a workstation, but I didn&#8217;t really have to. All you need to do is plug your phone into an external display, pair a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and you&#8217;ve got the majority of what Google&#8217;s latest take on laptops has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThe biggest reason to buy a Googlebook is already coming to Chrome on your old laptop<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">You almost had me, Google<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"android-has-been-a-desktop-this-whole-time\">\n                        Android has been a desktop this whole time<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"you-just-haven-rsquo-t-been-using-it-that-way\">\n            You just haven\u2019t been using it that way<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>Samsung introduced DeX back in 2017\u2014a feature that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-phone-already-does-googlebook-promising\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Android phone already does what Googlebook is promising https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-phone-already-does-googlebook-promising\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-19 15:30:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/04\/pixel-9a-running-full-linux-distro-on-external-monitor.JPG?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72,86],"class_list":["post-249738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249740,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249738\/revisions\/249740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}