My Google Phone Dream (the Google Dream post) was more than just a dream, it may, in fact, have been prophetic, judging from post in Gizmodo today; the dream seemed too real, too right on, so it does not surprise me that it's practically a fact the Google Phone, as of today, is in our future soon.

Somehow, the Google Phone is going to be very important - it's weird that of all the things I'd dream out …that's what I end up with - a Google Phone and two empty boxes.

"….On the software side, they're going to build a special version of Google Maps (complete with GPS), as well as have Gmail and Calendar compatibility. It's most likely going to have Google Docs compatibility too, but that wasn't specified. What's even cooler is that Google Talk, their free VoIP app, will be part of the suite. The OS could be Windows Mobile 6, or it could be a Linux-based OS, which would be even more interesting. [Crunchgear]"

Maybe 4 months ago, or so, I wrote a post about Google God - Google Truth - Part 2 - Google Phone and The Long Tail Painting where I painted the vision of the Google Phone and that Google had become the "God of the Internet":

Pastel on paper, 22 x 28 - Marshall Sponder - 2007

 I wonder if Om Malik is laughing out loud - he was right last December when wrote Forget iPhone, Think Google Phone:

"…It would be interesting to see if this comes to fruition. Google, in recent months has become increasingly aggressive about its mobile ambitions, and is pushing into the carrier space, though there have been some snags.

Google Phone, if you think about it is a reasonable speculation. Google has been aggressive in developing location based services, has amp-ed up its local search and mapping services. In addition, it has also been mobilizing its applications such as GTalk and GMail. YouTube, the video arm of Google, is beginning to embrace the mobile ecosystem."

Now, it's all beginning to come together - the whole Google Strategy with the 700 MHZ Spectrum that Google is also going to bid on to control.

I wrote about the 700MHZ Spectrum Google Deal several times, in fact. 

And now, as the pieces come together - we can see that Google needs it's own phone.  Honestly, my question to Google …..will the Google Phone be FREE?  I mean, almost everyone thing Google makes is free….why not the phone?  Or will we need to listen and view ads in order to get a free Google Phone?