Google Phone Rings Up Mobile OS Rumors

The latest edition of the Google phone, or gPhone or GPhone, chatter contends the search advertising company has a mobile operating system ready to launch.

Google's purchase of Android in 2005 Engadget offered a post that cited "a number of very trustworthy sources" about Google's mobile phone work. Soon, Google should make its mobile OS available, and jump into competition with Nokia and Microsoft on that playing field.

"We can't help wondering what El Jobso thinks about all this. Apple has been so buddy-buddy with Google lately, especially on the iPhone," Engadget's Ryan Block wrote. A Google phone OS really doesn't compete with Apple, though.

Apple's hardware really competes with itself, within Apple's fervent userbase. Google isn't going to cannibalize iPhone sales because their business model, advertising, needs to reach as many people as possible. That means less-expensive handsets.

These latest rumors about the Google phone have been popping up faster ever since the announcement about