If you’ve been rooting for Palm, they’ve finally delivered with the Palm Pre. Designed not only to compete in today’s crowded smartphone market, but Palm has done what so many of us hoped: go beyond what is out there today. The Palm Pre, for me, brings back the wonderlust of the first Handspring Treo and opens a path around the iPhone I was starting to believe didn’t exist. Palm is back, here is why:

Fancy getting a new portable media player that has a strikingly familiar minimalist form factor? If you can live without a touchscreen and only 3-inches of screen real estate on your gadget, the new Yoto M300 could prove to be the just right for you. It supports common multimedia file formats such as MP3, WMA, more »

LG, like Apple, is slowly taking its time in delivering the second iteration of their super-duper touchscreen phone, the LG Prada. Yes, you read that right, there will be a follow-up to the original “iPhone killer,” and I’m sure you will appreciate some of its newfound features. It retains the original soap bar form factor, more »

Who’s trying to upstage the iPhone now? Um, everyone… Last night, I got to witness first hand from out of nowhere (almost) comes Garmin with the nuvifone (hey, maybe the third time is the charm?) and I’ve got to give them credit, it is pretty slick. So if phone industry noob, if you will, Garmin can make a serious stab at Job’s baby, are there more to follow?

Why do we have to envy European phones? An Italian website exposed (and promptly removed all reference to) this i900 from Samsung. Samsung probably concludeds a smoking fast, touchscreen phone with a real camera and access to the business community apps couldn’t do very well in the small US market. Perhaps my bitterness is showing more »

I flew to Las Vegas, as did many of us, with the anticipation that this CES would showcase the collective response to the iPhone brought out at last year’s Macworld. Apparently, that was naive. I fully expected to be “wowed” or perhaps even “bowled over” by the big guns (LG, Samsung, Sanyo, Motorola, Sony Ericsson). Instead, largely I was non plussed. I showed up for all my booth tour appointments and waited to be shown their response. After all they’ve had just about full year since getting a public glance at what was coming.

To me, CES was the perfect launching pad for return volley. A response from the makers at this show, would have