Well it kind of makes sense, especially since Google is really pushing for open-ness. In that spirit of things it would only be right to go to the predominant open source phone platform right now.

I am somewhat disheartened by the fact that they won’t be utilizing the FIC Neo1973 GTA01 hardware. However they are going to be using the open source OpenMoko platform, just on some different hardware, purported to be being made by HTC.

The gPhone or Google Phone is supposed to be ad supported for at least talk time, how they implement this on a totally open source platform should be interesting to say the least. Being able to make significant modifications to your phone through the OpenMoko platform would be nice though

Google Using OpenMoko For gPhone? [via Phoronix]