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Muskaan Saxena

Future Chromebooks could steal one of the Google Pixel 8's best features - its camera

Chrome logo on the back of a Chromebook with a man out of focus working on it.

If you’ve ever sat down on your Chromebook and wondered ‘Wouldn’t this be so much better with a rear camera?’ you’re in luck: Google might be planning to pinch the Super Res Zoom feature from Pixel phones and bring it to ChromeOS, improving the digital zoom capabilities of your device. 

Normally you’d only have your front camera for video calls and occasionally quirky selfies, with Google bumping up the camera quality, especially for the Chromebook Plus lineup. The Super Res Zoom feature isn’t particularly useful on a front-facing webcam - but there are ChromeOS devices that do feature an external camera, like the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5

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