First came the rumors of a budget smartphone from Palm. Then a list of rumored specifications popped up here. Now it’s official. Palm has now formally announced the newest addition to its line of smartphones, the Treo 680.

So the rumors are true after all - but how accurate were they, really?

Most of the specs posted before were pretty accurate. Memory is pegged at 64MB user-accessible - slightly better tha the 60MB rumored - but no news of how much memory is actually onboard. Dimensions and weight were hardly significant - fractions of a millimeter and 3 grams off. In most people’s hands, the difference won’t even register.

What will register, however, is its color. The 680 will come in 4 different flavors: Orange, Strawberry, Coconut, and well - whatever flavor you can assign to gray. Officially though,
the four colors of the 680 will be Copper, Crimson, Arctic, and Graphite.

There’s still no word on pricing, so we can’t really determine what Palm defines as a “budget” smartphone. Personally, I hope it means under $300 (roughly PHP15k), but I know this is probably wishful thinking.