According to a Web report, there may be some problems with integrating the Google-led open-source mobile platform Android into devices, delaying the release of an Android phone until early next year.

The Barron’s Tech Trader Daily Web site published a report Thursday that said the so-called “GPhone” cell phones, which are being manufactured by a variety of makers, could be delayed beyond the current expected release in late 2008. The site raises that possibility considering one analyst, Trip Chowdhry

of Global Equities Research, is quoted as saying that handset maker High Tech Computer (HTC) is having “structural problems” incorporating Google’s feature set.

The report chases recent assurances from HTC that its Android phones are on track.

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Chowdhry plus said that not decent developers are being drawn to Android, considering new software toolkits from Microsoft, Apple, Research in Motion and Nokia have lured developers to those established platforms. […]

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