In a concession to the reality that, well they suck, new Motorola president Sanjay Jha says that the earliest we'll see a Motorola phone running on the Android OS is Christmas. And that's Christmas 2009 that he means:

Tragedy struck after the official launch party of the T-Mobile G1, as after actress Bonnie Somerville left the party with a friend at 2am, a teenage black male came up to her demanding her purse. Somerville screamed, causing the man to shoot her friend in the lower back with a .22 handgun.

The suspect then demanded, "Bitch, gimme your purse or you'll get shot too!"

Palm, which is fast becoming the ugly stepsister of smart phones is set to roll out a new operating system in 2009 - but should it?

CNN Money Online just wrote an interesting article about why Palm would be better off just junking their OS, and starting over again with Android.

Here are the main points:

Though I have no idea why. 

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in speaking to BBC declared that the new Google open source mobile OS, Android was not a threat to Windows Mobile because Android is still in version one and not as polished as a product.