Now Tapwave has done a few things with the Palm software we don't like.

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The slip is allegedly due to a "delay in certification, " suggesting that the FCC might be responsible for gumming up the works here -- but any way you slice it, this doesn't bode well for folks looking to get their high-end Palm on who don't have the benefit of Vodafone coverage.

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Probably won't be Nokia, since they're wedded to Symbian, Samsung already is a Palm licensee (even if they don't seem particularly enthusiastic about it lately), and it seems unlikely (though not impossible) that it'd be SE, since Sony's clearly turned its back on Palm as a platform, which leaves just Motorola and LG.

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It's palm-sized with a single blue LED light indicating a connection, but honestly you don't ever need to look at it: it doesn't need line-of-sight to your handset because it uses a wireless protocol called WiFi Display, which means you can happily leave it dangling out of the way behind your TV.

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As far as comfort is concerned, chew on this -- out of the box, the Rat 9's completely coated in soft-touch plastic, and if you don't like that, you can swap for a pair of textured rubber palm and pinky grips instead.

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