Todd Achilles, HTC’s top exec on this side of the pond, has called it quits — well, he actually resigned a month ago — and turned in his parking pass as head honcho at the Bellevue, Washington headquarters. While we’ve not heard any reason behind the move, we’re fairly confident that this shouldn’t ripple the product flow from the beloved Taiwanese HTC mothership. Perhaps he’s wandered over to the new rumored entry into the Windows Mobile world? Nah, we doubt it.

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Pocket PC Thoughts has spotted a YouTube video which shows a demo of a Treo 750-like Samsung Windows Mobile 6 Professional smartphone, recorded during the Gitex earlier this month.
While one of the highlighted features is a navigable mouse pointer controlled by some “scroller” mechanism underneath the screen, I can see even more interesting features:
It’s sporting the Orange typical Home screen design (should this be an indication that Orange is going to launch this unknown beauty?) and furthermore the touch screen is plain to the housing (think of a HTC Touch) which makes this device looking like a non-touch screen device (on the first sight):

Furthermore I wonder if this is 240 x 240 or 320 x 320 pixel screen (which would be theoretically supported by Windows Mobile 6)?
All this is pretty mysterious and it seems no one else, except DinarSoft which recorded this video, has spotted the device.

UPDATE: Okay, I’ve watched the video over and over again and it seems to have a front-facing camera (right above the Samsung name on top, similar to the front-facing camera of the SGH-i600) which indicates that it is at least a UMTS device (for Europe and Asia since North America isn’t supporting UMTS video telephony at the moment).

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Palm, the U.S. handset maker known for its PDAs and Treo smartphones, has been struggling for sometime to regain its status as a leader in the business phone space, but recent developments, including massive financial losses, layoffs and a failed product launch, suggest the company may finally be on its way out.

The past year has been particularly rough on Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Palm, with rivals like Research In Motion (RIM), Nokia and High Tech Computer (HTC), announcing various new devices and product innovations while Palm’s flagship product, the Treo, has mostly kept the same look and functionality it’s had since 2003, when the Treo 600 was first launched. RIM and HTC have also both been successful in penetrating the vast consumer market, while Palm and its Treo 680 smartphone, the first Treo aimed at consumers, hasn’t built much of a user base. (Perhaps because the Treo 680 looks just like its bulky Treo siblings, expect for a lack of an external antennae, which has become a Treo fixture and the fact that it comes in a variety of colors. It also featured the same old Palm OS, which hasn’t received a major upgrade in five years.)

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