So apparently this is no Gphone. Yesterday, Google announced that there would be an open source development platform for mobile devices — Android, a joined venture by the Open Handset Alliance.

I was hoping for some fancy phone that you could whip out and make iPhone users look like out-of-style douchebags. Well, now I at least hope cell phone vendors (Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, etc) would port this platform to existing cell phones.

While I’m at it, it does not seem like the Canadian Rogers Communications Corporation seems to buy in on the fact that people want relatively cheap service for viewing the web on their cell phones. For only $150 a month, users could get a premium bandwidth allowance of 25MB! We need some competition up here now that Rogers has all the GSM market.

More Gphone and Android information here.