TL;DR
- Googlebooks currently don’t support “Better Together” cross-device features with Samsung phones, despite being designed to work closely with Android devices.
- Google confirmed that support for Android 17-compatible Samsung phones is coming over the next few weeks.
- Samsung users considering a $900-$1,300 Googlebook may want to wait until the cross-device features actually work.
Googlebook laptops are finally official and available to purchase, but it looks like early users have discovered a rather disappointing omission from this initial release.
The whole promise of a Googlebook rests on the fact that these laptops are supposed to work seamlessly with your Android phone. However, as things stand, the cross-device features on these laptops don’t work with phones from the world’s largest Android smartphone manufacturer: Samsung.
