Google confirms it's working on a mobile phone.

The Spanish site Noticias.com posted a news story yesterday in which the general manager of Google in Spain and Portagul confirmed that Google engineers are working on a mobile phone (in Spanish). Our translation of the relevant news:

Isabel Aguilera, the general manager of Google in Spain and Portugal, has confirmed to Noticias.com that the company is working, "among other things," on the development of a mobile phone. "Part of our engineers' time has been dedicated to investigating a mobile phone for accessing information," Aguilera stated to this site.

Isabel Aguilara explained to Noticias.com that a good 70% of the engineers' time is dedicated "to developing our core business, which is to say search and advertising," and that 20% [is dedicated to] "products that have potential to be part of our core," and that 10% of their time is centered on developing "products that some time might be part of our business."

Currently, Aguilera's engineers are working on 36 products and "another 18 in the laboratory," of which the mobile phone is one.