The $10/GB/month HSDPA/HSUPA/LTE is an idea where Chrome OS laptop users would pay a low monthly fee for the first GB, and then pay for example $10 per extra GB and not per month. This way, if someone wants to use 10GB of wireless data, they could easily be spending $100 per month, it could be costly for a bandwidth addict.

Chrome OS and Google TV will basically dominate in ARM Powered laptops and set-top-boxes, as the makers of these types of devices obviously are waiting for that type of software to be able to present believable products at the next consumer electronics trade shows. For now there have been some ARM Powered laptops these past 2-3 years running Android and Windows CE, and there have been some ARM Powered set-top-boxes this past year or so also running Android, but those can only reach a mass market if they can get fast and smooth Chrome OS and Google TV software on them.

1) I don’t think Honeycomb will be open sourced because it will be eclipsed by Ice Cream.
2) Agreed.
3) First, I don’t know about the adoption rate of Chrome OS, second, I don’t know how can they drive down the hspa price to $10 a month.
4) Again, I don’t know about the adoption rate of google TV, even if it is open sourced.
5) Google social will have a hard time to face against facebook/twitter.

Chrome OS is much more than just a browser based OS. Google is engineering a whole upgrade to the HTML5 standard that needs to go with the launch of Chrome OS devices for it to be a success. Here are some of the improvements to worldwide HTML standard that Google is scheduling to launch with the Chrome OS laptops:

– Offline web apps
– Native Code plugin for browsers installed by default in all browsers, means a browser can run 100% same code as native apps. Expect Google to unveil full power video and photo editing free web apps for Chrome OS, those that work offline and online, and are powerful enough so that even professionals that are used to Avid and Photoshop would want to use it.
– 3D support and graphics acceleration in browser, this is not only for fancy UI and to support all the most advanced games in the browser, it is also to take full advantage of the graphics processor in the computer to speed up rendering accross the whole browser.
– Platform for packaging and easily selling web apps, which is what Google is suggesting and building through the Chrome web store.

Certain deep hardware acceleration work has also been underway by Google with their partners such as ARM on speeding up V8 javascripts engine support on ARM processors, something that is absolutely crucial needed to be done before an OS like Chrome OS can be a success on a variety of processor platform.

Yes and it’s also amazing to see now for 2 years the Chinese consumer electronics makers putting Android on Laptops and Set-top-boxes, of which Google could thus start to provide optimized useful software starting at this Google I/O for the first time, by opening Honeycomb, and also opening Google TV and Chrome OS for all these types of cheap ARM Powered devices, so these products when shown at the next tradeshows will be much more believable for the mass market.

I agree but Google will probably not only focus on high specs and will likely not increase the minimum hardware requirements. And provide optional layers of UI animations, UI 3D effects and other processor intensive UI features that can automatically or easily be disabled to still provide smoothest possible future Android versions support on even the cheapest sub-$50 Android smartphones.

I agree but Google will probably not only focus on high specs and will likely not increase the minimum hardware requirements. And provide optional layers of UI animations, UI 3D effects and other processor intensive UI features that can automatically or easily be disabled to still provide smoothest possible future Android versions support on even the cheapest sub-$50 Android smartphones.