Brush de Lux

Ah yes, this is what we’ve been so eagerly awaiting. Enough pussyfooting around with the Palm Treo 680 and HTC Hermes / 8525 coming to Cingular — we know they’re due. We need prices, we need dates. And according to what appears to be a recent Cingular marketing presentation, we’ve got ‘em:

• Treo 680: $424.99 straight, $349.99 one year, $249.99 one year with unlimited data (and $100 rebate), $274.99 two year, $174.99 two year with unlimited data (and $100 rebate; their ad, however, shows a $200 list price, but it’s good to know we can count on around two Benjamins. Expect it November 5th (tentative).

Earlier this month, Sprint announced its plans to launch three new Motorola handsets: the RAZR V3m, SLVR L7c and the one everybody is really craving for, the KRZR K1m. It seems that Sprint is launching them one at a time, because the RAZR V3m is the only phone that shows up in their online store. The other two phones will probabily be launched later this month.

The Motorola RAZR V3m is the CDMA version of the original RAZR V3 and it features a 1.3 megapixel camera, video capture and playback, music player up to 1GB of removable MicroSD memory and speech recognition calling.