Google gearing up for mobile phone

New patent reveal the big G's clever technology for predicting your needs.

Google is set to plunge headfirst into the mobile phone business later this year, according to appropriately-named website Mad4Mobile Phones .

The search engine giant has filed a new patent describing an application that predicts what the user is searching for, or the words in a text message, depending on the user's location, the time of day and his or her history of searching and messaging.

If you're planning an evening out in town, the phone might predict that you are looking for a bar at 8pm and a curry house at 11pm, based on your previous beer-quaffing/Madras-munching search history. Once suitably lubricated and stuffed with food, you pull out your mobile - let's call it the GPhone - and it brings up a list of cab firms to take you home.

We've already reported on Google's possible entry into the mobile blower world, and this patent suggests the process is in full swing. Apple's Phone might have some tough opposition when it launches here in November.