Soon enough, google will own my life.


Google's chief executive in Spain and Portugal, Isabel Aguilera, confirmed this week that the company has been working on a mobile phone. As part of an interview with Spanish news site Noticias.com, Aguilera mentioned that "Some of our engineers' time is dedicated to the development of a mobile phone." She also reiterated that about 70 percent of Google's engineers' time is dedicated to developing the main products for the company, 20 percent of the time is to develop products that are somewhat related to the main business, and about 10 percent of engineering time is spent on projects that could be tangentially related to the business, indicating that the phone development was not necessarily an active project.

Big tech companies getting into the phone business seem to be the rumor du jour lately: first Apple, then rumor of the Zune phone, and, of course, Google. Google phone rumors have been picking up a bit lately, accelerated by a recent partnership between Google and Samsung to bundle mobile versions of Google apps on Samsung phones. This caused some to believe that Google might be working on a Samsung-powered phone. The Samsung-powered Google Phone is rumored to be a Blackberry-like device that would run VoIP services. Pictures of the alleged device, which appear to be very iPhone-like, have been floating around the web.

Please, please let this be true... as a rabid addict of all things Google (and a person in need of a new phone), this would really fit the bill. Not to mention, real competition for the impending awesome (though ludicrously expensive) iPhone can only mean good things for we the consumers. All hail gPhone!