Report: Google to unveil gPhone platform Monday

Monday is G-Day: After months of rumor and speculation, Google appears poised to officially announce its gPhone mobile software platform. USA Today reports the search giant will unveil an open phone coalition charged with developing an operating system to showcase and promote Google's fast-growing suite of mobile services--coalition partners reportedly include operators Sprint, T-Mobile and NTT DoCoMo as well as handset makers Motorola and Samsung. Google will base the gPhone platform on the Linux operating system, complete with a Java overlay. "What's being developed is unlikely to be easily transportable to Yahoo and other providers," said Morgan Gillis, executive director of the non-profit LiMo Foundation, adding Google hopes to begin shipping a branded device by spring 2008. "If you're a developer, you'll be able to develop (applications) for the new Google Phone very quickly." According to USA Today, Sprint is supporting the gPhone coalition, but has not yet formally committed to making a Google-branded handset available to subscribers.

For more on the gPhone:
- read this USA Today article

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