Google announced at its annual I/O event back in May that it was going to bring a new extension to Chrome and an app to Android Market that would enable users to send maps, articles and videos directly to your phone with the single click of an icon that lives in the Chrome toolbar. The Chrome extension has been available for some time now, and Google officially made the Android app available today.
As Marshall Kirkpatrick over at the ReadWriteWeb opines, this feature should be on every phone, and I'm inclined to agree. It seems given how powerful extensions are in Chrome and Firefox, and how easy it would be to develop an app in webOS that could communicate with said extension, that an enterprising developer could make an extension/app combo that replicates the functionality of Chrome to Phone.
I could very well be wrong about jut how easy it would be to bring this to webOS of course, what with my not actually being a developer and all, but the usage cases for this technology are vast. I'd imagine that the first dev to bring a compelling product like this to market in the App Catalog could very well gain some significant notoriety.
Hit the break of a video overview of the technology.
Via: ReadWriteWeb, Android Central; Source: Google's Mobile Blog