The HTC Excalibur has been approved by the FCC and is now ready to get a launch in the US as T-Mobile will be the first to offer it. It can easily compete with the Motorola Q now. We don’t know much about this handset yet, but some features are romoured to be as follows:

Quadband GSM
QVGA screen
WiFi/Bluetooth
Windows Mobile Smartphone OS
Unique touch-sensitive scroll pad on side 

The phone is expected to ship before the end of the year, likely before the holidays.