A lot of insiders and consumers alike have asked the question of late, "Where has palm been?" With all of the action surrounding Apple's red-hot iPhone and RIM's ever-evolving Blackberry platform, Palm's been under serious pressure to come up with something, anything, that could earn a slice of the pie.

Running Palm's intuitive (if belated) new operating system (dubbed WebOS) the new touchscreen Pre could very well be Palm's answer to the question above and their biggest seller to date.

The unit (due on Sprint in the first half of this year) will offer a 3.1-inch 480 by 320 touch display, weighs in at 4.8 ounces, and comes with a curved, slide-out keypad. It will offer both Wi-Fi and 3G (EV-DO Rev. A, to be exact), as well as GPS (with turn-by-turn directions courtesy of TeleNav), stereo Bluetooth, 8GB of internal storage, a 3MP camera, a 3.5mm headset jack, and a removable Li-Ion battery.

Pricing has yet to be determined but we'll keep reporting on this new device as news develops.