Google's mobile phone is coming

I have always been a fan of Google's innovations and I'm very excited to see this news: Google Enters Wireless World.

There's not much information out yet about what's going to be packed in the device. Knowing Google, I would bet that it will be simple, with a simplistic look and feel and packed with lot of functionalities. The news is that it's going to be packed with open source software and I'm sure it will have a great email service (client or hosted?) , great and simple document editors, collaborating tools and anything web 2.0ish.

What Google plans to do with mobile gaming will be interesting to see. According to Gartner reports, Mobile Gaming revenue has grown 50% (!) this year and is at 5 billion USD now. It's growing at an amazing pace and mind you, this revenue is largely out of revenue on product purchases and not around services built with that. Google also has noble policies on adult content and there's huge revenue on that segment which Google may not cover too much.

I hope that Google will displace the bully - Blackberry. I hope the proprietary technology is stashed away with and all office employees can safely, securely use their official email accounts via the Google phone and increase their productivity. And use SAME phone for other tools that they like depending on their personal tastes. (Read Opensource, Free sourced, Free Willed...)

Okay, if everything is open sourced and free, where does the revenue come from? We all know that Google can be innovative from that too :-)

Welcome gPhone .