The company has given a number of its employees the device to mess around with over the holidays.

Mario Queiroz, Vice President, Product Management writes on the Google Mobile BlogAt Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding from eating your own dogfood. Well this holiday season, we are taking dogfooding to a new level.We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and we shared this device with Google employees across the globe. This means they get to test out a new technology and help improve it.