Venture capitalist Simeon Simeonov has made a post on his VC blog High Contrast that he claims to be an insider tip on the hotly anticipated, yet still speculative, Google Phone. According to Simeonov, Google has charged Andy Rubin with the task of creating the G-Phone.

Rubin, the founder of Sidekick maker Danger, arrived at Google when the search giant acquired Android, his wireless software startup. Under Rubin works a team of about 100 people reportedly slaving away on the device. Simeonov believes that Rubin is working directly on the OS of the device.

He goes on to cite Google’s acquisitions of Reqwireless and Skia as definite indications that it is working on creating its own handset. Reqwireless creates mobile applications and, before getting bought, Skia had developed a vector-based presentation engine capable of rendering “state-of-the-art” 2D graphics on mobile phones.

Semeonov sees these acquisitions as evidence of G-Phone rumblings at the Google lab. He also claims that, in contrast to the Google Orange HTC phone rumors, the new device is being developed in conjunction with Samsung (citing this press release) and the Switch codename is once again being bandied about.

The new device is said to be similar to a similar to a Blackberry in design. It will be coded on a C++ core with an OS bootstrap. Like the Sidekicks, Java will be optimized to run on the device. And it will include a multitude of services like G-Talk and such.

He does present a rather compelling case and truly seems to have considered many intricate details surrounding the G-Phone. So is it valid?

I’m going to go out on a generously solid limb here and agree with Mr. Simeonov. It’s not a stretch to believe that Google would indeed be working on such a device. Distributing content, like targeted ads, wirelessly would be a hell of a lot cheaper than than pushing it through pipes. Plus it’s hardly controversial these days to claim that wireless is the future.

The world is going untethered as quickly as technology permits. It should come as no surprise that the Internet’s largest and fastest growing company would be continuously looking for ways to proliferate.

Google 2005年购买了一个名为Android的公司，但是这家子公司的开发工作一直处于保密状态，根据我们消息透露，目前Android正在开发一款专为手机设计的软件操作系统。

分析人士认为，Android目前拥有一个100人的开发团队为Google Phone进行开发，有趣的是，我们发现Google在2005年还购买了一家开发移动设备2D图形设计产品的小公司Skia。

有消息透露，Google Phone有可能拥有如下特性：

1.外观类似Blackberry

2.采用C++ core w/ OS

3.C++核心针对Java进行优化

4.采用Skia的矢量图形系统

5.提供包括VoIP在内的诸多功能

Google近期在移动设备领域动作频频，Google Maps、Google Search移动版功能不断增强，相信Google Phone到来之日已为时不远。

另外，值得我们期待的是，Google CEO曾经说过：手机应该免费使用。