Will the Google phone hit the stores this year?

This seals the deal for me: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080215_004309.html

Cringley is occasionally wrong with his predictions, but rarely wrong when he gets a lead like this.

Why does this question suspend at the end of February, when the question asks "Will the google phone hit the stores this year? ... "The device, article speculates, could go on sale in 2008."

As I see it, this will suspend further predictions, but hold up the settlement until January 1, 2009.

I see two questions here:

A Google branded phone or just a phone based on Android?

To me, a "Google branded phone" would be a phone with the Google name on the box, on the physical phone itself, marketed and sold by Google. In contrast, an Android phone is just any phone that runs the Android operating system: http://code.google.com/android/

So...which kind of phone are we talking about here?

@newswrangler - it appears that this is no longer suspending in February...

And yet more coverage http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-gphone-may-not-be-such-a-myth-afterall/7304/