Since the North American market seems to be pretty busy these days with the entire T-Mobile G1 commotion, there’s probably little room left to make any smartphone announcements at this point.

So HP took the matter to Europe, where Vodafone will begin selling the iPAQ Voice Messenger and Data Messenger smartphones this November. The first country to see the models will be the UK, but other countries are expected to soon follow.

The prices will range from $570 for the iPAQ Voice Messenger, to $680 for the iPAQ Data Messenger, prices that are not necessarily justifiable, especially considering the two models bring absolutely nothing impressive to a market that is already overwhelmed with smartphone offers.

As non-impressive as they may be, that won’t stop Vodafone from selling them, so here is what Europeans will get: the iPAQ Voice Messenger comes with a 2.4-inch QVGA display, as well as a QWERTY keypad, more condensed than you would expect.

Furthermore, the iPAQ Data Messenger comes with a touch-screen and a sliding QWERTY keyboard, has a 3-megapixel camera, and offers GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth integrated capabilities.

It sounds like nothing we haven’t seen before, and even more than that, it sounds like a shy attempt to show that there’s more to the smartphone market than Apple’s iPhone, Google’s G1 or BlackBerrys. But is there?

So far, it’s no secret that smartphones usually arrive on the European market with much higher prices, but just as a personal opinion, this is exaggerated, and perhaps buying a BlackBerry, an iPhone or even waiting a bit longer for a G1 isn’t such a bad idea for European consumers.