Smartphone Debut Helps Palm Beat Estimates - NYTimes.com

I'm pulling for the Pre, and I'm pulling for Palm. Of all the competitors in the smartphone market, it seems like Palm and Google are the only ones with the chops and insight to be a real competition to the iPhone. Everyone else (especially Microsoft, but RIM is included here, too) is resting on the fact that they're already built into many clients' mobile infrastructures.

I'd love to see nothing more than the Pre be Palm's iMac: the product that brought the company back from the brink of a very bad prognosis. Apple needs a strong competitor in the space. More than that, though, consumers need a strong competitor to Apple in this space.