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.

Besides the rumor the Google Phone might be touchless, there’s a set of new about the handset developed by the search engine, Samsung and Orange, its partners for the project.

The handset might use scalable vector-based graphics instead Ajax technology.
Although it might look like the Adobe Flash-Lite technology, the multimedia Flash engine for mobile devices, Google will use an alternative engine provided by Skia, a tech company acquired by the search engine in late 2005. Other features includes VoIP, he also said, and optimized Java running on the C++ core.

Features:

    * Blackberry-like, slick device
    * C++ core w/ OS bootstrap (some version of Linux?)
    * Optimized Java running on the C++ core (similar to what Andy did at Danger)
    * Vector-based presentation courtesy of Skia’s technology
    * Many services, including VoIP

If those details come to be true, the Google Phone will have graphics as slick as the Apple iPhone.

UPDATE
The head of Google in Spain and Portugal has confirmed that Google is working on a mobile phone. "Some of the time the engineers are dedicated to developing a mobile phone," Isabel Aguilera is quoted as saying on the Spanish-news Web site Noticias.com.

written by Florin C.