Samsung Galaxy Tab’s Android OS can be replaced with Chrome

21 Sep, 2010

Samsung Galaxy Tab is currently one of the hottest Android-based tablet PC’s on the market, but that might actually change in the near future, but it will all be for users’ gain, it seems.

According to some of the latest reports on the matter, the slate offers support for Google’s other operating system, Chrome OS, and the Android flavor it is currently running under might be replaced with this operating system.

Moving from Android to Chrome OS is seen as an upgrade for the tablet PC, though it appears that this might not be an easy task in the end.

Samsung Galaxy Tab’s Android OS “can be replaced with Chrome, when that arrives, though owners who aren’t tech savvy should have this upgrade carried out by a professional,” Sunday Times notes (via electricpig.co.uk).

For the time being, no specific info on why things are so emerged, nor on whether the transition from one platform to another would be included in the tablet PC’s roadmap.

For what it’s worth, we would have expected to hear that Samsung is planning how to update the slate from Android 2.2 Froyo to the next version of the OS, supposedly Android 3.0 Gingerbread, and not on how to move from Android to Chrome OS.

It’s uncertain where the info on Galaxy Tab being upgradeable from Android to Chrome OS came from but, in case this will pan out, expect for more info on the matter to emerge in the near future.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab has been already announced as being on its way to arrive at various wireless carriers around the world, including all four major operators in the US, as well as Canadian services providers Bell and Rogers.

European users should also receive the Android-based tablet PC in the near future, as a series of carriers on the old continent already announced their plans on the matter.