I have already stopped to expect Nova devices hitting the road ever - but the odds have just improved significantly. A PEF member has just posted the following bit of info after trying to get his broken Treo 680 repaired:

I went to the local AT&T store here in CT and they couldn’t help me obtain a new one, and tried to sell me on a Centro (2G, yecch!). Then the salesperson hinted that I should hold off on buying a new PalmOS-based Palm, because he was recently sent to an all-day training where there was a Palm rep there who demoed and trained them on how to use, market and sell the “new” Palm devices coming at the end of the year. The AT&T person I spoke with said it is nothing like anything that’s already out there, including the iPhone or Android. I pushed for more details, and he said it wasn’t the device from ACCESS.

So that piqued my interest quite a bit… and I’ve decided to hold off upgrading my Treo 680 for the next few months, but I need to replace the one I have.

As of not, nothing is known about what these boxen will be and about how developers feel about them. Nevertheless, I always appreciate to hear sth positive from Palm’s end - no matter how small…