Google unveils Phone Hub feature to connect Android phone with Chromebook

Google has marked 10 years of Chromebooks by unveiling new features for Chrome OS (operating platform), including a new Phone Hub feature that connects an Android phone to a Chromebook.

Phone Hub will allow users to respond to messages, check phone’s battery life and cellular signal, turn on its hotspot and even locate it from their Chromebooks.

“Phone Hub also shows the Chrome browser tabs you last opened on your Android phone, so you can pick up right where you left off,” the company said in a statement late on Tuesday.

In 2011, Google launched the first Chromebooks in partnership with Acer and Samsung.

Google said it has also extended Wi-Fi Sync to work with more devices, making it easier and faster to get online.