People are talking about a gPhone again. Like we don’t know this isn’t a phone we’re going to see this year. We’re less likely to see an Android powered smartphone this year at all, but that might still happen. As for the gPhone thing…

Today Larry Page and Sergei Brin, the founders of Google together with CEO Eric Schmidt made various statements suggesting a future gPhone.

Hollywood Reporter writer Dan Cox said regarding their statements:

The trio of Google execs also used the opportunity to talk about the inroads the company is making with its own branded mobile phone as a replacement for the iPhone.

That’s not enough at all to make us think that the gPhone is actually going to be launched soon. But if we add to these statements the rumor that San Francisco based Ammunition Design Group is designing the gPhone we might have something here.

Ammunition Design Group has worked on various devices like Palm, Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer, Logitech and Sprint (the handset in the picture) so they know what they are doing. And in case it matters, the founder, Robert Brunner, was previously the director of Industrial Design at Apple Computer until 1997.

So are we going to be in for a surprise? An iPhone like gPhone? That should be some competition, with Google controlling the internet and the news flow. I wonder who would eventually win.