Google: "2011 is all about mobile"

In case you weren't sure, Eric Schmidt goes through it one more time.

The Google CEO, now confirmed as leaving the company as it happens, writes in Harvard Business Review that "as I think about Google's strategic initiatives in 2011, I realise they're all about mobile."

He claims we've reached a point where the combo of GPS and browsers make it possible to deliver services that know "where you are, what you could do there right now, and so forth, and to deliver such a service at scale."

To accelerate users towards this vision, Google is focused on three mobile fronts this year: high-speed mobile networks of up 8 to 10 megabits; mobile money (NFC); and affordable smartphones for under $100.

"We envision literally a billion people getting inexpensive, browser-based touchscreen phones over the next few years," wrote Schmidt.

"Can you imagine how this will change their awareness of local and global information and their notion of education? And that will be just the start."