Palm Pre
Palm’s website has announced that version 1.2 of the new operating system used on the Palm Pre and the upcoming Palm Pixi has been released. It will be pushed to your Pre automagically sometime during the next few days, if it hasn’t been already.
Important new features of version 1.2 include the integration of LinkedIn contacts, the capability to download songs from the Amazon MP3 Store over a 3G connection in addition to Wi-Fi, and cut and paste for Web pages and e-mails.
Other highlights include being able to search within e-mail folders, download files from the Web browser, and the capability to pause live podcasts. There are still no paid apps, but it looks like Palm is preparing for their arrival with a feature that lets you store your credit card information in your Palm profile for future use.
A full list of included updates with Palm WebOS 1.2 can be found at Palm’s support site.
Of course, this post would not be complete without mentioning a list of the most-wanted features still absent from this update:
- a new fix to the iTunes synchronization (which was broken by iTunes 9.0) or a replacement for it;
- a video-recording app;
- Flash support;
- message forwarding;
- 3D-capable games.
