• Download Squad, Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:30 PM

With the help of Verizon and gadget maker HTC, Google reportedly plans to release a Chrome OS tablet on Black Friday, November 26. So says Download Squad, citing unnamed sources. "What better day to have a shiny new tablet in the cabinet at Verizon kiosks and stores all over the country?" asks the tech blog.

"You can bet Google's Chrome OS tablet will be heavily subsidized, and I'd go so far as to say it will be substantially cheaper than the iPad -- if not totally free -- with a Verizon data contract. Along with wish list of specs, Download Squad says of the Google tablet: "Expect it to be every bit as geek-tastic as the Nexus One -- Google won't want to disappoint its early adopters. While it's unlikely interrupt holiday iPad sale, competition from Google can never be taken likely, and therefore must have Apple's attention. In particular, publishers frustrated by Apple's notoriously controlling nature could be emboldened by the introduction of a serious tablet rival. Why Download Squad's sources call the potential tablet by Google's browser's name and not by Android, its open-source operating system, is anyone's guess.

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