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Palm and Vodafone are all set to announce what's almost certainly going to be called the Treo 750v on September 12th. But if you can't wait until then to see what the first GSM/UTMS Treo will look like, then you've come to the right place. To the side are the clearest pictures yet of the upcoming Treo.

As previously reported, the leaked images show a Treo that looks a lot like other recent Palm smartphone models, but without an antenna - a first. Another noticeable difference is the casing seems to be blue and the colors of the keys on the keyboard have been transposed. Where they're black on the Treo 700p, for example, they’re white and vice versa.

While Vodafone will be first for the Treo 750, it looks likes a version of the GSM/UTMS Treo may find its way to Cingular not too long afterwards.

Palm probably doesn't want to wait too long to get the new Treo into end-users hands on both sides of the Atlantic. That is if it wants cash in on the holiday season. Otherwise it may lose out on all important shelf space to competitors, as retailers would have made their final decisions on what to stock after that period.

There's certainly a market for a GSM/UTMS Treo in Europe and North America. Europe hasn't seen a Treo update since the Treo 650 launched—that Treo had to be pulled this summer because of its failure to comply with the European Union's RoHS pollution law—and Palm's most recent Treos, the 700w (Windows Mobile) and 700p (Palm OS), are only available from CDMA/EV-DO operators Verizon and Sprint in this country.

While both operators launched the 700p simultaneously, Sprint is just now offering its version of the 700w, called the 700wx, about nine months after Verizon. The Sprint model has twice as much memory, 64 MB, as the Verizon model, however, and may deliver improved performance.

As for features, little is known about Treo 750v, other than it is a Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC smartphone with a 1.3-megapixel camera and a SD slot; convenient for adding memory and Wi-Fi, if it doesn't integrate the popular wireless technology already.

There have been rumors that it just might be Palm's first Treo to do so. Palm CEO Ed Colligan said his company would release Wi-Fi enabled smartphones last month - something nearly all its competitors do already - but he didn't say when.

Vodafone has posted a Web page that allows interested parties to register to be notified when the new Treo becomes available.

The carrier says it plans to roll the 750v out in the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and Netherlands first, after which it'll expand deployment to other regions.