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WSJ is reporting(subscription required) that Google has entered into a partnership with LG Mobile to provide Google applications pre installed on its mobile devices.

Users might be able to get Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps, and Blogger amongst other things pre installed on their LG mobile phones.  At the moment we dont know for sure what apps will be loaded or not on the phone, as nothing concrete has come out from either company.

Ever since its IPO Google has really played smartly as far as partnerships are concerned. It partnered with firefox to have firefox search box default to Google, it partnered with Dell to have Google software pre installed on Dell machines, it partnered with MySpace and Friendster to be a default search engine for the social networks. Google wants to reach as many people by default as it can. It knows fair well that Microsoft didnt killed Netscape by making IE better, rather by making it a default browser option for people.

Update: GigaOm also has a scoop.
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