MUKOYAR

Status : Rumored to be available October 31st on Verizon Touchscreen : 3.7-inch/480×854 Full Touchscreen with Full QWERTY Slider Dimensions : 60 x 115.8 x 13.7 mm; 169 grams Camera : 5.0 Megapixels with AutoFocus Battery : Li-ion 1400mAh Standby Time : 450 Hours Talk Time :7 Hours Processor : OMAP3430 processor Internal/External Memory : 512MB Flash, 256MB RAM/MicroSD (16GB capacity) Extras : 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled; Android 2.0 Price: Unknown ****

Palm and Motorola have taken very different paths to get where they are today; one began life as a scrappy Valley start-up founded by a tablet computing pioneer, the other traces its roots to all the way back to the early days of consumer electronics and the automotive industry. Yet somehow, through years (decades, even) of adventure, success, and misfortune, they've found themselves in exactly the same situation here in 2009: it's do-or-die time. Palm, of course, has elected to try its hand at resurrecting the very thing that took it to superstardom in the first place -- an elegant, tightly-controlled software platform of its own with hardware to match -- while Motorola has thrown virtually all of its remaining weight behind Android in the hope that it can catch a little mojo from Google's ecosystem. For Motorola, it's the wireless equivalent of stepping up to the roulette table, putting what's left of your depleted life savings on red, and letting it ride just as ...