Summary
Google has announced Googlebook, a new flagship laptop category combining the strengths of ChromeOS and Android with Gemini features. Pre-orders are scheduled for September 21, with Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo named for the first wave.
Google has announced Googlebook, a new category of flagship laptops designed around Gemini features and integration with Android phones. The company says pre-orders will open on September 21, while the first Googlebook models are expected to launch during fall from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo.
A flagship category alongside Chromebooks
Google describes Googlebooks as bringing together the strengths of ChromeOS and Android in laptops made with high-quality materials, powerful performance, intelligence features and phone connectivity. The company distinguishes them from Chromebooks, which it describes as devices focused on simplicity, speed and efficiency for everyday use.
That positioning makes Googlebook a product category rather than one Google-manufactured laptop. The hardware will come from established laptop makers, while Google is defining the software experience and the features that separate the new devices from conventional Chromebooks.
The announcement's central change is therefore the emphasis of the laptop experience. Google is presenting Gemini intelligence and continuity with an Android phone as defining characteristics of its most advanced laptops, rather than as optional software features added after purchase.
Gemini features and Android-phone integration
Google highlights two Gemini-powered tools. Magic Pointer allows a user to select content and ask Gemini to answer questions, compare information or create something from it. Create My Widget is designed to build a custom widget through a natural-language request.
The page notes that checking responses requires an internet connection. It also says that results can vary based on visual matches and that the examples shown are illustrative, with sequences shortened.
Googlebook is also intended to work as a companion to an Android phone. Cast My Apps can open phone applications on the laptop without additional installation, while Quick Access is designed to make files on the phone available from the laptop as though they were stored there.
These phone-connected functions require setup and a phone running Android 17 or above, according to the announcement. The requirement makes the feature set particularly dependent on the wider Android ecosystem rather than only on the laptop itself.
Launch details
Google has set September 21 as the pre-order date and says the first wave will arrive in fall. Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo are the manufacturers identified for that launch group.
The announcement establishes the Googlebook category, its Gemini-oriented software direction and its Android-phone integration. It does not provide model-specific hardware configurations, prices or exact retail release dates, so the September pre-order date is currently the clearest buying milestone supplied on the page.