Palm has confirmed Palm 500v as a real deal after lots of recent speculations with the leaked pictures and stuffs. The 500v is coming in two colors rather dull colors “glacier white” and “charcoal black”. They have abandoned the the old blocky design to a more “a la Blackberry” setup. It will be running Windows Mobile 6, won’t have the touchscreen interface that was previously reported. But will sport 3G / UMTS data (no HSDPA sorry guys!), IM, push email a 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0, 150MB of internal memory and expandable via a microSD slot, also the QWERTY keypad looks awesome. Vodafone will get the first shipments in October but it isn’t the exclusive carrier it will be free on most contracts. Atlast Palm is trying something new to bring back the lost press buzz and the customers.

[pocketlint]