I realize we ran this item last week, but here’s the story straight from the horses’ mouth.

Demonstrating its commitment to providing mobile professionals with a choice of smartphone operating systems, Palm today announced the Palm Treo 700p smartphone, which includes hardware and software innovations centered around usability, connectivity, multimedia and compatibility. As the first Palm OS CDMA-based Treo smartphone to offer the broadbandlike speeds of the EvDO (Evolution Data Optimized) network, the Treo 700p smartphone helps customers better balance their personal and professional lives by combining an easy-to-use mobile phone with high-speed wireless data access to web, email, business and multimedia applications. Pricing and availability for the Palm Treo 700p smartphone will be announced later by Sprint and Verizon Wireless.