Links open in new Browser card views, and YouTube videos will automatically launch the corresponding WebOS app. You can manually refresh the feeds. Thankfully the app is pretty light on battery usage, hopefully additional updates will still maintain this excellent feature. Right now, you can follow your friends’ updates, send out your own, and share photos. Joining and creating groups, chat, and other features are yet to be seen. It’s a functional and well-designed start. Update: it has since received a number of excellent features, making it a well-rounded Palm Pre app.

The interface is quite nice but shows needless information such as latitude and longitude from the GPS reading (though that information may come in useful when one needs to check if the GPS radio is working alright – hopefully never). The interface also lets you email or text your car’s location and your current location, another feature that doesn’t quite fit with the app’s overall goal. An extra feature or two never harmed anyone however, and the app is quite useful and well-designed overall – a useful addition to your portfolio.

Needless to say, you need an active cellular data or Wi-Fi connection to use this app. Charting is surprisingly good and quick. You can see trading charts for intraday as well as longer periods easily. Analyzing charts shouldn’t be something you do on a mobile device, but this is pretty much as good as it gets. Notifications integrate well with WebOS and interface is clean and simple. Overall, this is a useful stock market app that covers all the basics and does it in a polished and easy-to-use manner.

You can configure a profile and fitness goals and the app will prompt you and let you see how far you’ve progressed against your goals. Charting and graphing is excellent on this app, and a lot of the information is presented in a clear and easy-to-understand manner. The interface is easy-to-use and the app comes with the ability to export all your data if you wish to crunch numbers on your computer. Overall, this is an impressive health & fitness application and covers most basic needs in this domain.

Second, there’s a separate function for numbers. This can be very handy when describing dates (years especially) and large numbers. Once again, you can type in the numbers and see the resulting words in both French or English. The final option on the bottom menu bar lets you see a history of your searches on the app. Words within the app are linked to the various functions – so you can tap on a word and it’ll throw up a menu which includes the option to conjugate that word. A list of popular and useful phrases would have completed this otherwise very comprehensive and useful dictionary application on the Palm Pre smartphone.

Uploading images and sending location information in your tweets is easy and straightforward. The interface is functional and an improvement on Spaz, but definitely not as clean as Tweed’s. Icons still need some attention and polish, but are very usable as is. The app uses a dark background with light text throughout, which some people might prefer. Twee is relatively responsive and quick with showing new views. Overall, Twee for the Palm Pre is a healthy competitor to Tweed, and offers a full range of Twitter features that will leave even power-users quite satisfied.

The interface is simple and very uncluttered – leaving you with the cards and nothing more. The white background and notepaper design go well with the whole notion of flash cards. FlashCards tracks your statistics for you. You can mark cards as learnt or go into reverse mode by hitting the menu butter. You can also edit cards while viewing them. You can browse and add flash card sets from within the app itself, and you can pick from a range of editor picks and user submitted sets. FlashCards is a fantastic and useful addition to the Palm App Catalog.

The motivation behind the app is easy to understand, but any implementation of this concept, even a good one like this one, will suffer from several issues. First, very few people have photographs of all their regular contacts (imagine business associates). That will mean by-passing this app and going through the regular route. Second, the photographs rarely appear as good as the ones in the samples. Overall, if this is something that works for you, Quick Contacts is very well implemented and there’s a lot of customization options to make it work well.

Trapster relies on its users to compute a confidence level for each warning. You can hit a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down based on whether any given warning turned out to be true or not. This is then aggregated and displayed. So you’ll see a warning for an intersection with a confidence level of “High” or “Low,” depending on how reliably a trap was detected there. Each warning comes with a color coded icon, so everything is clear right on the map. Everything, including notifications, is fully customizable. This is a powerful and useful tool and definitely raises the game in terms of bringing superior and fundamentally useful functions to your Palm Pre.

Shoutcast alone offers tens of thousands of stations to pick from (you’ll need the Pro version of Net2Station to see all of them). Streaming quality is excellent and buffering is good enough that you’ll rarely see any skipping even on a crowded Wi-Fi network such as in your Gym. The interface is high-contrast and usable, but some of the station names can appear obscure because they get cut off after a few words. The app also lets you see how many other uses are listening to any given station, so you can make the call on whether you want to trade-off quality against popularity. Overall, this is a very functional online radio streaming application on the Palm Pre.