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A new smartphone from HP and an a pair of new models Palm highlight a leaked Vodafone presentation recently posted by the Boy Genius Report. The document is supposed to show the roadmap (see top picture) for Vodafone's upcoming Windows Mobile devices. The Palm smartphones include one codenamed Drucker, which may turn out to be the company's first Treo with integrated Wi-Fi, and another under the name codename of Wanda.

Drucker's a Pro
Drucker may just be the much-rumored about Wi-Fi-enabled Treo 800w. It is, according to the roadmap, even slated to replace Palm's aging Treo 750 in Vodafone's Windows Mobile lineup.

This smartphone is supposed to run on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and sport a QWERTY thumb-keyboard, 320 x 320-pixel touchscreen (a resolution previously reserved for Palm's Palm OS-run devices) and Bluetooth 2.0.

Additional features may include GPS, a 2 megapixel camera, and a 1500 maH battery.

Becasue Drucker is a quad-band GSM and tri-band HSDPA (3G) worldphone, there's every reason to believe it, or something very close to it, will make its way to these shores.

Vodafone's roadmap estimates Drucker will ship this summer, possibly in July, for £270 (about $530) without a user agreement.

A Palm Codenamed Wanda
As for Wanda, it appears like that smartphone will replace the Treo 500v, which is kind of like the Palm Centro, offered by Sprint, except it runs on Windows Mobile rather than the Palm OS and doesn't feature a touch screen.

Like the Treo 500v, Wanda runs on the Standard version of Windows Mobile 6.1. So, like its predessor and unlike Drucker, Wanda won't have a touch screen as well. In Wanda's case a 2.2-inch QVGA 320 x 240 pixel) resolution type.


Palm's "Wanda"

And, like the older model, Wanda is only supposed to be a tri-band GSM phone (it's also support HSPDA 3G), making a U.S. release unlikely. The Treo 500v, or a Windows Mobile model like it, didn't ship here either.

The roadmap calls Wanda a "Prosumer messaging device." So like other Palm smartphones it includes a QWERTY thumb-keyboard.

Additional known features include integrated GPS, and a 2 megapixel camera.

Wanda isn't due until September, when it should go for £180 (about $350) without a contract

Oak: A Slider
Another notable smartphone in Vodafone's Windows Mobile roadmap is a previously unheard of HP model, codemaed Oak.

Oak is a slider with a numeric keypad on the front and a QWERTY keyboard that slides out the side for use in landscape mode. It's display is a touch screen.

It's also got Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 1010 mAH battery.


HP's "Oak"

Like Palm's Wanda, HP's isn't supposed to ship until September. It should go for around £260 (about $500) without carrier subisdiy or user contract.

There's more...
The roadmap also lists a couple of Windows Mobile devices udner the name Slider and Tablet, so it is impossible to tell what company or companies makes them, and another from a manufacturer labled ODM v16xx, a tablet-style device with a QWERTY keyboad.

The description of another HP smartphone model, codenamed Silver, sounds similar to an already announced model, the iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger.

We'll report more details about all of these new devices as they come to light.