We’re loyal readers of Engadget, a popular and interesting gadget-related blog. This morning, they’re talking about the new Treo 650 phone out from palmOne. Of course, the reason they’re talking about it and we’ve been silent is that we’ve been getting confidential briefings from the source and abide by our NDAs. We’ll have more in news later about it, as well as full reviews.

In any case, the Engadget folks are complaining that the new device doesn’t support WiFi and never will. They also claim “Apparently palmOne isn’t even planning to work on a driver or otherwise add support for SD WiFi cards.” That’s actually not true.

When we were briefed by palmOne, we were told that the WiFi drivers were taking some time and the company didn’t want to hold up the product release. While software development schedules are never predictable, we suspect you’ll see support for WiFi as soon as they get it working. And that is why we never traffic in rumors. We prefer to get the real details from the folks doing the real work.