:: What is Google Phone?
It is the environment that Google is developing to provide the tools necessary for users to access Google services designed for mobile devices: mobile phones, PDAs, …
:: Google Phone is it software or hardware?
It is difficult to gain popularity and market share in the world of mobile devices because there are several actors in it and they control what is and is not present within the devices. Therefore, in principle, Google will create a kind of operating system based on Linux, including various tools and access to mobile services. This set of software applications installed on mobile devices from companies with which Google is coming to agreements, such as Orange (mobile operator), LG or HTC (makers). About the software, you can look at a post I wrote at the time, “Should be Free Software mobile operating system from Google?”.
Anyway, Google is also interested in creating their own hardware in the form of mobile phone. So, is hiring engineers in hardware to create “wireless communications systems” (see job) and make them in series.
:: What mobile applications can be accessed?
There are already a number of Google mobile applications to which you can access without having to ‘Google Phone’: web search, Google News, Picasa Web, …
:: Is it true that the phone calls will be free to ‘Google Phone’?
Google’s bet is, at least, that sen free mobile phones. “Your mobile should be free, and it makes sense because it would be funded by advertising that it will become increasingly important in mobile phones,” is what the Director said of Google.
:: What is it that Google wins the ‘Google Phone’?
Advertising revenue. Google has various technologies to achieve significant income from its mobile tools: mobile AdWords, AdSense for Mobile, Click-To-Call, advertising in terms of geographical position, …
