Earlier today it was made known that Microsoft launched their Windows Mobile 6.5 Marketplace app store and now we have a similar announcement regarding Palm and their webOS. While the App Catalog has been live ever since the Palm Pre was released to market the app offereings were very slim and featured no apps you could actually buy.

Today, however, Palm has announced that the first round of paid apps are making their way into the App Catalog with the first being the above Air Hockey game priced at $1.99.

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While Samsung is just beginning its Application Store adventure, Palm is working on improving the general aspect of its already launched App Catalog. It’s clear that Apple has implemented a key feature in this mobile modern business and everyone else is following the new trend. We couldn’t be happier since we do need all the mobile content we can get in order to go through our daily routines as smooth as possible. And Palm is apparently working on redesigning the App Catalog. The new features include credit card payments support, integrated app management, tag cloud support and a new page layout. We’ll be waiting for Palm to make everything official as the App Catalog should finally be filled with brand new applications! But what do you say Palm Pre users, are you ready to start purchasing more apps from the store?

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It seems like Palm is a bit more lient than Apple in regards to what apps get accepted into the App Catalog as it was recently made known that a third party Google Voice client has hit the service.

The app in question is called gDial Pro and gives users full access to all of Google Voice’s features.

Now, let’s just hope Palm keeps this up and continues to let third-party apps into the App Catalog, something I’m sure you Palm Pre owners would be thankful for.

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While Palm might have stopped the webOS 1.2 leakage, that doesn’t mean you can’t check out webOS 1.2 in action. The video above was made by one lucky webOS 1.2 owner. As you can see the new OS version will let you copy and paste both text and graphics. You can also save images and copy URLs now and the zoom features has been definitely improved. Search email is now available and I’m sure some of you have been requesting this feature a lot. And it looks like the LEDs in the gesture area could be enabled to offer notifications but you’d have to do it yourself (not included in the video above.)

What’s you experience with webOS 1.2? Have you installed it already on your Pre? Palm will probably release the new OS soon as they’re definitely getting ready to launch the App Catalog.

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Remember that Palm Eos phone we were talking about way before the Pre actually arrived in Sprint stores? Well it looks like a GSM/HSPA version of it is scheduled for an October release. It seems that AT&T is the carrier that will launch the phone and Compal will send anywhere from 400,000 to 500,000 Eos phones to the USA. In case you’re still a CDMA/EV-DO kind of person then you should expect Verizon or Sprint to launch the Eos sometime next year.

What do you think folks, will the Eos be even more successful than the Pre? We have no official features to work with so far but at least we know that Palm has opened submissions for the App Catalog. By October we can expect lots of applications to be available in the App Catalog which means future Eos owners will have a lot more apps ready to be downloaded than the first Pre buyers did. What about you? Are you going to get a Palm Eos phone later this year?

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Palm has just announced that they are finally allowing app developers to submit their paid apps for App Catalog approval. This is great news for both developers who now have access to another market to make a profit, but also to Palm Pre owners.

Previously, Pre owners only had access to around 30 or so apps. Now that third party developers can submit their own apps Pre users will have hundreds if not thousands of apps to choose from.

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Apple has just recently celebrated the 1-year anniversary for their game-changing App Store and now, just a few days later, they are ready to release some numbers regarding the service. Make note that just about 3 months ago Apple announced that over 1 billion apps had been downloaded at that point.

According a recently released press release, over 1.5 billion apps have been dwonloaded from the service since it went live one year ago. Additionally, they have said that there are over 65,000 apps currently offered on to service and over 100,000 developers currently enrolled in the Developer program.

Will these numbers be too high for competitors like Microsoft and Palm to keep up? Only time will tell.

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Back in February, Microsoft unveiled their answer to Apple’s App Store appropriately named Windows Marketplace. Months have since passed and yet there still wasn’t a solid release window.

Luckily, Microsoft has today taken to the time to announce that the service will officially go live for handsets running Windows Mobile 6.0, 6.1 and 6.5 later this year. Furthermore, the company has also announced that they will begin accepting application submissions on July 27th.

Microsoft may be a late comer to the game with Apple, Google and Palm all launching their app services but considering there are ridiculous numbers of handsets running Windows Mobile, Windows Marketplace is sure to be a hit.

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Rumors have begun circulating the internet that suggest the Palm Pre’s webOS will be getting updated to version 1.1 within the next 30 days.

Details are somewhat scarce but BGR reports the following features are rumored:

• IT-initiated remote wipe
• Required PIN
• PIN complexity (numeric or alphanumeric)
• Device wipe after a certain number of failed PIN attempts
• Auto-lock after X minutes of inactivity
• Improved digital certificates

Doesn’t sound too exciting? Yeah, well, that’s because it’s not as Palm is clearly focusing on making version 1.1 a security concious one. Let’s just hope that Palm hurries up and gets their App Catalog rolling because they have a lot of catching up to do.

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If you’re looking to get a leg up on the competition before Palm officially releases their App Catalog SDK kit to the public, you’re in luck. The pirates are at it again as it was recently discovered that the Palm Pre Mojo SDK has been leaked ono torrent sites everywhere.

Of course, Palm isn’t going to let rogue developers put their creations onto the App Catalog but at least you can get some practice in.

While Palm hasn’t said anything about this leak, chances are they won’t be pleased, so be sure to download at your own risk.

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