Palm Pre gets updated to WebOS 1.2 with several enhancements

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Palm Pre gets updated to WebOS 1.2 with several enhancements

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Yesterday was a pretty enormous day for Palm Pre owners with the release ofas described on the . There are a number of significant and worthy updates that create the update a must have for Pre owners. However, you may want to exercise just a bit of caution as James Kendrick over atdiscovered that the Palm Profile server had gone down so backup and restore was not working. The server is back up now so it should be fine to perform the update, but for those that did it before the server went down you may have found a few things that didn't approach back (theme customizations for one) and none of your homebrew apps will approach back. This just goes to display that syncing to the cloud isn't always a fail safe solution. Back to the WebOS 1.2 update, we see a large number of improvements including:

Smart filter of emails as you enter keys on the keyboard (Feature I like in Windows Mobile)
Download files in the browser
Browse and now purchase music through the Amazon MP3 store over the cellular connection, not just WiFi
Phone numbers tapped in a calendar note can now be dialed directly
Podcasts can be paused and pick up where you left off
Web pages and emails are now able to be cut, copied, and pasted
LinkedIn is now supported by Synergy
Support for heterogeneous EAS policies is now provided
You can now enter a credit card in the App Catalog (in preparation for priced app support)
Ability to redownload apps you purchased for free is enabled
Web browser bookmarks are now backed up in Palm Profile (another thing you may notice didn't approach back after the server went down)

Check out the Palm page for the update to see the entire list of things that were updated and you will see this is an update every Palm Pre owner should apply.

posted by Matthew Miller
September 29, 2009 @8:17 am