Gphone, FCC approval, worldwide launch - WTF?

Rumors and innuendo - it all was all so much fun the first time with the iPhone, who isn't looking forward to doing it all over again with the gPhone?

Rediff reports that

"Google, the nearly $13.5 billion search engine major, is believed to be a fortnight away from the worldwide launch of its much-awaited Google Phone [...] Sources close to the development said a simultaneous launch across the US and Europe is expected, and announcements would be sent to media firms in India and other parts of the world. US regulatory approval, which is expected soon, is the only hurdle that Google is waiting to cross."

Two weeks to complete FCC certification and do a multi-operator worldwide launch would be a daunting task. Could Google out-secret Apple in a worldwide launch more complex than the single operator launch of the iPhone?

The is only one likely scenario in which a launch in 2 weeks makes sense - if the "gPhone" will launch as a device taken through FCC certification by some other manufacturer, with Google providing the software on the handset.

Anybody out there up for trolling through FCC filing database for enigmas in the past two or three months?

Jeff