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A leaked bug report gives more info on Google's new OS.
Aluminium OS will be the merging of Android and ChromeOS.
The new OS should be released sometime this year.
Google's plan to merge ChromeOS and Android was elevated above rumor status some time ago, and a recent bug report from Google (originally spotted by 9to5Google) provides the first leak of any information regarding the new platform.
On Telegram, a tipster named Frost Core shared a link to a bug report (no longer accessible without permission) focused on Chrome Incognito tabs, including two screenshots and a description. According to 9to5Google, the description let on that the device used was an HP Elite Dragonfly 13.5 Chromebook with a board/codenme "Brya(Redrix)," which runs a 12th-generation Intel Core (AlderLake-U) processor.
Also in the description was the build number for ALOS (the codename for Aluminium OS, the merging of ChromeOS and Android), which is ZL1A.260119.001.A1, and the version of Android being used is 16.
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