Meet Project Hermes: eSIMs (and likely Project Fi) on Chromebooks
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aboutchromebooks.comPosted Jun 7, 2018, 5:50 PM UTC
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aboutchromebooks.comLet's hope for some suitably godlike hardware.
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A Chrome OS tablet with LTE and a flagship SoC would actually be a decent competitor to the iPad and Surface edit: if they priced it like an iPad
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Yeah but they'll price it like a Windows laptop, which is ultimately more useful.
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I'm not sure what state of Chrome OS is regarding the ability to make complete use of the Android Play Store, but if all the Android apps in the Play Store work on Chromebooks, I'm all in. My wife and I are looking for new Android tablets - 7 inch or 8 inch would be good - and we'll wait for Samsung's supposed Tab S4. It's a bit large at ~10 inches, but might be somewhat future proof. In the event Chromebooks can't do what we want, then standard Android tablets are the way we'll need to go.
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Thanks for your reply. Maybe Google should note for each app in the Play Store if the app works using Chrome OS, or put up front reviewer comments that show this ability. Ya, I know, that might be a big task.
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Considering the price of Chromebooks I wouldn't expect top of the line hardware but they seem to perform well for what they were built to do. They can't perform all the tasks that a normal PC can do but they excel at the ones they can do. Having an inexpensive laptop with LTE capabilities would be awesome IMO especially if it's a cost effective option like a Chromebook. I would love to see higher end specs but I like the accessibility that Chromebooks offer to people from a cost standpoint.
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Original source: https://www.xda-developers.com/esim-project-fi-chrome-os/
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Time for me to launch my Project Barbados Slim
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the world's very first Chromebook, the Google CR-48, had a eSIM or embedded SIM inside... allowing it to be used on Verizon right out of the box. IIRC, Google gave us testers 250mb/month on Verizon for free during the first year or two.
I still have the CR-48. It's slow but works fine. :)
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I'm a little confused by this article, as a Project Fi subscriber. If connected to WiFi, I can already make and receive calls from my Chromebook using my phone number. Obviously an eSIM will allow me to do that from any location with mobile data service, but otherwise, a lot of what they're talking about here is already possible.
The potential for other carriers to support this is exciting, however, as I would like to move off of Project Fi, but I like the Hangouts integration.
I'm not sure making and receiving calls was the main objective with adding eSIM to the Chromebooks. Not sure where he was going with that.
Just my opinion, but it would allow for the creation of the data-only eSIM. If that's the case, perhaps it might go past just Chromebooks and allow for current and future watches, etc who also use the eSIM technology.
Have you considered porting your number to google voice? It has nice hangouts integration :) .
I've thought about it, just haven't had a chance to do much research. I'm mostly waiting until I get a new phone (I want to ditch my Nexus 5X).
I also wanted to see what would come of Google's new SMS client/web integration.
Not to mention that tethering a laptop, Chromebook or no with a Fi phone is easy, and permitted.
Personally, I don't think I've ever had my laptop but not my phone in the last decade.
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Huh, interesting. My shamu has been great at that since I installed a new battery (my old one was down to 40% design capacity).
Thankfully some laptops have a SIM slot (or rather, they used to, I'm not sure if that's still widespread). Then a data-only sim would work.
Slightly possibly stupid question; would tethering data whilst charging using the laptop work? Becomes a different problem then, if the laptop's battery isn't very good, but could alleviate it for the phone assuming you have AC power available for the laptop.
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