In contrast to PCMag’s tipster, who hinted that the second WebOS phone will be a QWERTY-less candybar, “a seemingly reliable firsthand source” of PalmInforcenter claims that the next phone to spread WebOS love will be the Centro 2 for Sprint. It is said to keep the Centro form-factor and hopefully price point, offering the cool and new OS to the masses. Fingers crossed!

PCMag’s Sascha Segan often has interesting details and now he reveals some information about the Pre. Unlike previous rumors, it seems that cool smart phone will not cost an arm and a leg, but $200 to $250 with a two-year Sprint contract. The plans it will run on will be similar to these of Instict. Other US carriers will get it no sooner than 90 days after Sprint does, so if you want to be cool, prepare to switch your carrier.

Sascha also says that Palm will approve all apps in the Catalog, but unlike Apple will test only if they work correctly, not if they are “good or bad”. Other “Pre” models are also said to be in the works, with rumor about a lower-cost candybar QWERTY-less phone coming. Let’s home February’s MWC trade show will reveal more information about the other Pre versions and hopefully new models.

Ed Colligan mentioned that both the CDMA and the UMTS Pre may come to Canada … unfortunately, no details on time period were given. US will get it in the first half, through Sprint. UK will get it in the second and Canada – well, we hope it will be available there before the end of the year. The best scenario will be to get both CDMA and GSM version, so more people will be able to use it. 

source: TheGlobeandMail via Engadget

According to CES 2009, Palm Pre and the WebOS are the best invention after the sliced bread … Yeah, we think the same!  After Palm has stolen the attention from all other phone manufacturers and everybody else at CES, it was given the Best In Show award. Good job Palm, your stock are now more than 35% up! 

via RTTNews

Palm Developer Network’s page reveals information not only what you’ll need to for developing apps for the WebOS, but also on how they will be distributed to the customers. Palm will have its own ‘App Store’, the App Catalog. Let’s hope that unlike Apple’s, this one will allow almost any app to be distributed. 

To learn more about the Mojo SDK, visit the Palm page.

Palm now hosts a video of the CES 2009 press event, during which the WebOS and the Palm Pre were announced.

You can watch it by clicking here

The major announcement and pretty much the only interesting one during the whole show was the Palm Pre introductions and the WebOS platform which it runs. Everything started at 11 PST, with a conference room packed with press, eagerly expecting the “Nova”, which was the code name of the new OS. Jon Rubinstein came on stage briefly, to introduce Ed Colligan, President and CEO. The main points in his introduction of the new OS and device were simple: most consumers do not use one device for specific purpose, but combine work and personal stuff, multimedia, office documents and contact information and all those pieces of information are usually scattered in different repositories (folders, e-mail accounts, services, IMs), requiring each one to be accessed separately. Palm’s idea is to have all different parts to come together seeminglessly into one device.

Their second intention and we think their main one is to make the underlying technology invisible to the users – no need to have to save before exiting, no need to try to sniper a small X located in the right corner to just minimize it and you get the idea. This is the whole idea of the Web OS – optimized for human beings from the 21st century who do not use just their local phonebook for contact information, but Gmail, Facebook, multiple IM and have information everywhere which needs to be brought and naturally accessed from one place. Please welcome the Pre and Palm’s new WebOS operating system. Read the full story

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