That must be such a pain in the ass to make a phone thats GSM then have to change the chip to cdma, get it fcc approved all over again and do all this stuff. I don't blame them ...
Nyah, that kind of thing is relatively easy these days. Chip makers provide a reference design. Then your engineers wack it around a little.
FCC approval means you pay about twenty thousand dollars for a lab to test your unit and confirm it doesn't emit too much under certain conditions.
Now here's the dirty little secret: you can not only pay like Apple did an extra $150 or so to keep the documents under cover, but you don't even have to have the test results made public until the day you start selling the device, if you use special third party approval authorities.
So when people say there'll be warning if say, Google, is about to launch a competitor phone, then no, not necessarily.
For that matter, Apple could've hidden the iPhone. The whole deal about having to show it off early because of the FCC approval was just another PR stunt.