Google unveils gPhone. Not. Rather, an Android.

Hmmm. News just in. There ain't no gPhone. But there is the Open Handset Alliance. Isn't the timing beautiful? Just after Open Social and the bitch-slap Google gave FaceBook - they hype it up even further. Ah. PR.

Excerpt from the official post:

Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we're not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing -- the Open Handset Alliance and Android -- is more significant and ambitious than a single phone. In fact, through the joint efforts of the members of the Open Handset Alliance, we hope Android will be the foundation for many new phones and will create an entirely new mobile experience for users, with new applications and new capabilities we can’t imagine today.

Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications -- all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation. We have developed Android in cooperation with the Open Handset Alliance, which consists of more than 30 technology and mobile leaders including Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC and T-Mobile. Through deep partnerships with carriers, device manufacturers, developers, and others, we hope to enable an open ecosystem for the mobile world by creating a standard, open mobile software platform. We think the result will ultimately be a better and faster pace for innovation that will give mobile customers unforeseen applications and capabilities.

Here's the video (there are only 250 views, so I'm guessing this is an SA scoop? Goodie!):



So, that's a whole bunch of hype about what really?