Palm stock prices have dipped a little today after enjoying a 52-week high just yesterday. The market in general has lagged a bit today, but given that the Palm Pre and Apple’s iPhone are the most compared handsets at the moment, maybe Palm’s stock dip could be partly attributed to Apple’s release of the much-awaited 3.0 firmware update today. The 3.0 update gives the iPhone some sorely-needed features that the Pre offered on day one – notably a universal search feature and copy/paste. In spite of market fluctuations, it’s great to see Palm gaining strength as their webOS-based Pre continues to sell.

It seems that Apple doesn’t sleep while Palm prepares the webOS and the Pre – according to Engadget, the Cuppertino company will preview (read: not launch) the third generation iPhone OS in five days, on Martch 17th. iPhone and iPhone 2.0 were really good, so this one may be a real rival of the webOS, so we are eager to see it.

Any guess what will they offer? Will they have synergy on their own? Tell us in the comments.

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