Palm OO Garnet isnt dead yet - at least not for GSPDA. Today, they announced the new M70 smartphone on their web site:

Ther machine is advertised to be supporting push email - one of the thingy why the austrian carrier T-Mobile refused to carry the Treo 600(met the product manager in the tram once). Further important stats are:

# Tri band: GSM 900/ 1800/ 1900MHz
# Palm OS® 5.4 Garnet
# Display: 260K Color, 2.2” TFT 176 x 220 pixels, touch screen
# Push Email
# One touch Email function
# Bluetooth communication and synchronization
# SMS Alarm
# Video Caller Display
# Full screen Chinese and English handwriting input
# 1.3 mega pixels CMOS camera, with digital zoom function
# Video recording and playback (support MPEG 4 and 3GPP format)
# MP3 ringtone and playback
# 40 poly ringtone, support MIDI and MP3 format
# Email support (POP3, SMTP) with viewing and editing attachment function (in conjunction with application software)
# Support GPRS Class 10/ xHTML/ WAP 2.0/ MMS/ SMS
# External SD card expansion slot
# Bluetooth, Infrared and USB connectivity
# Exciting Palm games

Looks as if we have a Treo 680 alternative now. The Palm OS blogger Theo Poon guessed that the price of the machine would be below 400$ by far…he goes to say 359$, but this will obviously change should retailers kick in.

The official web site is here:
http://www.xplore.com.hk/m70_en.jsp

A big thank you goes to Theo Poon for the hint and the price guess.