Competition at last?

...and from Palm? The company everyone thought was on the creative skids may actually have some good ideas left. On second thought, maybe that's too strong; let's say some incremental refinements to Apple's good ideas. But after the somewhat-disappointing G1 and the somewhat-ridiculous Storm, that's saying a lot.

Of course, other than a web site and a demo at CES, no one outside Palm has seen one of these gadgets yet. There's still plenty of time to learn whether we'll be over- or underwhelmed. What I'll be looking for: battery life. With multiple concurrent applications running, I'm not expecting much in that area.