Android floats in space: gPhone a no-show, handsets not due til late ’08

Google Inc. drew considerable media attention last week with an idea and 33 influential friends.
Missing was its long-rumored gPhone, whose actual fate remains a closely guarded secret.
Instead, Google announced a consortium of 34 companies-the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)-and a common goal of producing an open-source, Linux-based operating system named Android. Apart from the cuddly name, the announcement had a whiff of d