You may have heard some talk in the news recently about a new “gPhone” that is said to be available in coming months. Well, it’s not actually a phone, but an open source software platform that will be able to run on many cell phones.

This looks like it might be a pretty cool thing and somewhat along the lines of the openmoko phone except that instead of relying on it’s own hardware, they are working to make it compatible with many of the cell phones currently on the market.

From the information I have found so far, it appears that LG and Motorola are the two main phone makers that are planning to support this new software and T-Mobile is one carrier mentioned that has said they would work to allow phones using this software to work on their network. At this time, it appears that the software is going to be targeted mainly at “smartphones” such as the Palm Treo, Blackberry, and my HP iPAQ.

At any rate, it appears that the cell phone market is becoming a bit more lax and the days of proprietary cell phone software may be coming to a close.

Even thought, at this time, there is not much talk of Google having their own cell phone, the combination of this announcement coupled with the talk of Google planning to bid on a significant portion of the wireless spectrum, it may not be too far off that Google launches an actual cell phone division offering phones and service and competing with the cell phone carriers that are currently available.

What are your thoughts on Google becoming a cell phone provider and/or offering this software? Do you think you will use the software platform? Would you switch to Google cell phone service if they were to launch such a division?