Google - gPhone?

Is Google releasing the gPhone or not?!!

According to Ars Technica, "a recent report by CrunchGear states that its own sources at mobile handset provider HTC have tipped the site off to multiple gPhone handsets getting prepped for launch in the first quarter of 2008, and that the handsets will be coming out of Taiwan. There will supposedly be over 20 different handsets to choose from—some with GPS—and they will carry special versions of Google Maps, Google Calendar, Gmail, and VoIP-enabled Google Talk."

On a software front, Google is rumored to be developing its own operating system for the gPhone.

I find this very exciting and I can't wait to see the devices.