If you've ever wished you could put Google in your pocket, you'll have the opportunity soon - quite literally. The search-engine company is on the verge of releasing a software suite to run all aspects of mobile phones.

"What's good for the web is good for Google," says Dan Morrill, a Google developer advocate in the US. "The more comfortable with using the web that users are, the more frequently they'll do a Google search.

"We wanted to create a platform that was open from end to end," he says.

"Developers will need to accommodate many screen sizes, layouts and phone feature sets. The risk is that the user experience might be bad and the tech knowledge required to get it all working might be high, where any non-techy people may be put-off by the experience."