Since GDC 2010 is approaching fast, rumours have started flying around that Palm will making some big announcements this time. Most exciting is that of them reliving a platform/app which would make it very easy for developers to port their iPhone apps to WebOs platform.

Well if this is true then it can be really be a game changer and would really turn around the tables in the Palm Pre market share. As even after being a great smartphone, Palm Pre is not able to see the apps market get going which is inturn turning away the customers from it.

I really hope this becomes true and Palm Pre owners will soon be having thousands of apps to play around with.

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Here are 2 videos showing the Palm Pre plus in action :

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Please note that both are homebrewed apps and are not available in the official app store.

Quake On Palm Pre

Doom On Palm Pre

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Video streams are available in Mpeg-4, H.263, H.264/AVC and for audio you have the options from AAC, AMRNB, MP3. The video containers are either mp4 or 3GP.

Here is a sample video from Palm Pre using Precorder App :

In all its a pretty handy Free video recording app for Palm Pre and you can have fun with it. More updates should be coming on the app in later time. For downloading/installing the app, check out it official webpage.

If you happen to come across the abode’s flash player page while browsing from Palm Pre, you will be greeted with a message saying the Flash 10.1 is coming to webOS in first half of 2010. Hence the 2 Palm devices based on webOS platform, Palm Pre and Palm Pixi will be getting the update.

[Via:Engadget]

Here is a the video which shows Palm Pre unlocking in action :

With a hardware unlocking solution in place, we can surely hope for a software solution coming soon. I will update as soon as some news comes on that.

OK so big news first, GSM Palm Pre is out in germany and will be soon launched in all parts of Europe. And I am happy cause this might bring Palm Pre to India, unofficially ofcourse. All you will doing is calling up your cousins,friends families and get one for yourself. Unlock it and use in India. I am going to do the same, once its gets launched in England . And probably grey market guys might also swing into some action and start getting Palm Pre’s into India.

More updates on it pretty soon.

Note: My sincere apologies for leaving the blog idle for so long. Was busy in something pretty important and now I am back all charged up .

There is a new application as well, its NFL Mobile Live from Sprint .

Here is the complete list of features being released in the webOS 1.1 update :

New applications

NFL Mobile Live from Sprint

• Watch or listen to live NFL games right on your phone.

Feature changes to existing applications

Calendar

• For Calendar accounts you create on your phone, the default reminder intervals are 15 minutes for timed events and one day for all-day events. A few notes:
  • This change applies only if software version 1.1 was on your phone when you bought it, or if you did a partial or full erase on your phone and signed in to your Palm profile again after updating to version 1.1. If you simply update your phone to software version 1.1, the default reminder intervals in Calendar do not change.
  • This change applies only to Calendar events you create on your phone, not to events that are synchronized to your phone from an online account.

Camera

• The Photos application opens more quickly when launched from the camera.

Clock

• Enhanced support for time zones in Clock.
• When you set an alarm in Clock, an alarm icon appears in the notification area at the bottom of the screen. Tap the icon to display alarm details. Alarm details include the following:
  • If the alarm is set for the current day, the alarm time appears.
  • If the alarm is set for tomorrow, the alarm time and “Tomorrow” appear.
  • If the alarm is set for any day other than today or tomorrow, the day of the alarm appears.

Contacts

• Friends added and deleted in Facebook on the web are now correctly added and deleted in the Facebook account in Contacts on the phone.
• As soon as you create or makes changes to a Google contact on the phone, the phone begins a sync to reflect those changes in Google on the web.

Email

• When you set up an Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) email account, you can enter the mail server name as an IP address.
• Support for self-signed certificates with multiple common names has been added.
• When you reply to an email in HTML format using an EAS account, the formatting of the sender’s original message is now retained in the reply.
• Palm’s EAS implementation now supports several Exchange ActiveSync Policies, including the following:
  • PIN/Password Required. IT administrators can ensure a password is assigned to the phone. Administrators can also specify the minimum length of the password.
  • Inactivity timeout. IT administrators can ensure that an inactive phone goes into a locked state after a certain time period. You cannot set a higher timeout interval for your phone, but you can set a shorter interval.
  • Remote Wipe. IT Administrators can remotely erase all data on a phone from their Exchange console. IT administrators can also have the device wipe itself if an incorrect password is entered more than a specified number of times.

Messaging

• You can enter emoticons in new text, multimedia, and instant messages. Emoticons also display in incoming messages.
• If you set the phone to use a 24-hour time format, the message times shown in a conversation appear in 24-hour time.
• If you go into an IM account’s preferences, all the options are available even if you are signed in to the account. You can tap Remove Account to delete the account, enter a new password to update the password, or tap Sign In to sign in with your updated password. Previously, you needed to sign out of the account before you could use these preferences.
• When you delete an IM account, a message now appears asking you to confirm that you want to delete the account.

Phone

• When multiple missed call notifications are displayed on the dashboard, the time of the most recent missed call is shown.
• When you slide the ringer switch off, a bell icon with a slash is displayed. Previously, the icon was a speaker with a slash.
• In Phone Preferences, the Show Contact Matches preference is now turned on by default. When typing on the keyboard in the phone app, the phone automatically displays both the numbers being entered and any contact matches for the characters entered.

System

• Improved functionality of person reminders. A person reminder is a notification that you create in a contact entry. The notification appears when you have a call or exchange an email, text, multimedia, or IM message with a contact.
• Resolves an issue preventing media sync from working with latest version of iTunes (8.2.1).
• When you enter a search term in Card view or the Launcher to perform a universal search, if you select the Wikipedia web search option, results are shown in the Wikipedia Mobile site instead of the Desktop site.

Web

• You can now use symbols from the symbols table (Sym + key) when you enter text into a web page dialog box.
• If you have a page open at a certain zoom level, leave the page, and use the onscreen Back button or the back gesture to return to the page, the zoom level is restored right away.
• A new gesture is now available that works the same as the onscreen Forward button. To move forward through open web pages, make a short swipe left to right in the gesture area.
• When using the Wikipedia drop-down search feature in the address bar, results are shown in the Wikipedia Mobile site instead of the Desktop site.
• When you tap a link, the link appears highlighted to indicate it has been activated, even if it takes a moment for the linked page to open.

YouTube

• After you enter search text, you can tap the Search icon to perform a search. You still have the option of pressing Enter to perform the search.

There are also some undocumented features included in the release which are being tracked by PreCentral at link .

So in all its a pretty big update with introducing lots of features, plus making things to work faster will always be good .

Do check out the Palm Pre Updates Page on how to install updates or details of the past webOS releases.

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Its a pretty good watch, so do give it a try .

So, here are the 2 recently released advertisement videos of Palm from Sprint and Palm