Mobile Radio Simplified. Accessible. Relevant.

The tech community is all abuzz about the forthcoming Gphone (a.k.a. Google Phone), officially the T-Mobile G1. Featuring the much discussed Android open source platform, it is surely a developer and geek’s dream. The speculation and buzz on the web even includes the future plans to make the Gphone like a remote control. MocoNews reports:

Eventually, Android phones will be able to act as remote controls, as PacketVideo plans to adapt its “PVConnect” software to let users send content such as video, photos, and even TV shows between their computers, TV’s and game consoles, similar to AT&T’s (NYSE: T) recent announcement that it would link the iPhone to its high speed internet and video U-verse service. There will also be an app store, much like Apple’s. The applications come from big and small developers, with 50 chosen from its Android Developer Challenge.

Note the word “eventually.” This off-in-the-future functionality is cool and inviting to the top-tier of tech-savvy folks who would utilize such things and gleefully endure the purchase of numerous iterations of the phone, as well as multiple pieces of software and proprietary hardware to make such remote control functionality a reality. Not to mention the knowledge and patience required to figure out how to string it all together.

I’ll take this opportunity to reiterate that ANY PHONE will work NOW to act as a remote control for accessing mobile radio on demand. While listening to a cellecast, your phone serves as a remote control to get you where you want to go anywhere within the program, its archives or the CelleCast system. All it takes is the keypad of your phone, cellular or land line.

If only simplicity was deemed worthy of such hype.