Meh, I'm waiting for my 2gb, 300$ iPhone Nano (and you can bet that'll be the next step for Apple) 
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Palm Responding to iPhone?
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To little to late for Palm
It's to little to late for Palm IMO.
I had been a loyal Palm OS fan and I have had three different Palm OS based smart phones (Samsung I-300, Treo 600, Treo 650). And I think there is not a whole lot of difference between the devices. The Treo's are really good PDA's but just ok phones. For years Palm has been able to get away with only coming out with minor updates to the hardware and software for their Treo devices. But now they have no choice but to innovate and come out with something that is going to compete with the iPhone. When the iPhone does come out it will be the final nail in the coffin for Palm and the Palm OS. The first nail was when they decided to start shipping Windows mobile based Treo's.
After a while you just get tired of carrying around a brick for a phone and I have switched to a nice slim flip phone the Samsung M610. Which costs less than a Treo but it still allows me to do 90% of the things I was doing before. With mobile applications like Gmail mobile, Google Maps mobile and the free google 411 service. It's only a matter of time before they have a mobile version of google calendar and then I will have everything I need.
It's to little to late for Palm IMO.
I had been a loyal Palm OS fan and I have had three different Palm OS based smart phones (Samsung I-300, Treo 600, Treo 650). And I think there is not a whole lot of difference between the devices. The Treo's are really good PDA's but just ok phones. For years Palm has been able to get away with only coming out with minor updates to the hardware and software for their Treo devices. But now they have no choice but to innovate and come out with something that is going to compete with the iPhone. When the iPhone does come out it will be the final nail in the coffin for Palm and the Palm OS. The first nail was when they decided to start shipping Windows mobile based Treo's.
After a while you just get tired of carrying around a brick for a phone and I have switched to a nice slim flip phone the Samsung M610. Which costs less than a Treo but it still allows me to do 90% of the things I was doing before. With mobile applications like Gmail mobile, Google Maps mobile and the free google 411 service. It's only a matter of time before they have a mobile version of google calendar and then I will have everything I need.