9. Google Phone Delayed Until 2009

I'm glad that the first Google Android phone wasn't delayed until 2009--as it was rumored to be. On , Google's shares dipped 1.3 percent. The word was that HTC, the manufacturer of the , was having problems delivering the Google phone on time.

Tales of the GPhone delay started out modest. At first there weren't enough out there, according to sources. People theorized that Microsoft, Apple, Research In Motion, and Nokia had absorbed all the developers, and so none could be bothered to make Android apps. But the rumor bomb dropped when the Wall Street Journal that the first Android device would not come until the second half of 2009.

In the end though, HTC squashed the rumors, and . The following month, in October, the went on sale for $179.

8. Zune Phone