I personally think that Palm will get a decent number of customers; the phone/OS certainly pretty and as long as it's sufficiently robust they will get a following. Lots of people want something different, don't fancy the klunkiness of winmo or symbian and aren't willing to give up totally on industrial design by getting a G1.

In my mind the problem will be whether they have the money to build momentum, provide good service and deal with the inevitable fallout from an all-new hardware platform. It's either going to be a blaze of glory or a blaze of returns and annoyed customers. Given their shortness of money (and hence time), one has to think that they're cutting every corner they can to get the phone on the market before they run out of cash - ready or not.

Still, looking forward to some competition. It's been getting a bit lonely

Hugo