Google Abandons Plans to Bring 'Touch-less' Chrome to Feature Phones

Several changes to the Chromium codebase suggest that Google may be abandoning plans to create a 'touch on-less' version of its popular web-browser for feature phones. Believed to have been offset reported by 9to5Google, Google has manifestly been "removing all references to touchless Chrome and deleting the hundreds of files inside the 'touchless' folder".

According to the report, the commit in the Chromium Gerrit now reads "Remove touchless* with the exception of Blink code", which seems to advise that the underlying code for touch on-less controls will still remain part of the Blink engine, meaning it could still exist implemented by third-political party software. The feature was aimed at users of Android-based characteristic phones in the hereafter, only at that place'southward no give-and-take on why information technology's been scrapped.

In case you didn't know it already, screenshots of a 'bear upon-less' version of Chrome started doing the rounds earlier this year as part of Google's plans to put Android into feature-phones without touchscreen displays. That would have put it in direct contest with KaiOS, which is currently the most dominating operating organisation in touch-less characteristic phones.

It's not immediately clear equally to what exactly the latest development ways, but it probably shows that the company is either abandoning plans to shoehorn its high-powered software into low-powered feature phones, or maybe, it was having to cut too many corners in terms of features or security to be able to implement it without attracting censure. Whatsoever be the case, it will exist interesting to see if there will exist Android-powered feature phones with not-touch displays in the most future.