The Pre 3 acquire a 3.6-inch 480×800 display, a 5-megapixel camera, front-facing VGA camera, and a 1.4GHz Qualcomm processor. On top of that, the device has h a vertical slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Currently, you can purchase the handset for 349 euros ($505) in France and 299 pounds ($490) in the UK. However, the price will be drop as low as $75 unlocked version.

[via SlashGear]

The device will be shipped in one to two weeks time period. Priced at 349€ which equivalent to $500 USD for the unlocked version. It would comes in a QWERTZ keyboard instead of QWERTY keyboard.

[via Engadget]

But now Best Buy is offering the device for free with a two-years commitment. Best Buy will only possessed the White Veer 4G both in the stores and online. You will need to pay $50 deposits that later will be refund in form of $50 Best Buy gift card.

Quick reminder, the device packed with a 2.6-inch 320×400 touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, triband HSPA, and a 5-megapixel camera. Aside from that, there’s also 8GB onboard storage, WiFi, AGPS, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and a 910mAh battery. It runs on webOS 2.1.

[via SlashGear]

The Palm Pre 2 will packed with a 1 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi (with mobile hotspot), GPS, 3G, and a 5 megapixel camera. Strangely, the device pre-order page cannot be found on Verizon’s website.

[via IntoMobile]

Not only that, the Palm Pre 2 acquired several necessary applications such as the Angry Birds and of course, Facebook. The ads is pretty straight forward and explanatory so you won’t have any confusion on how the device works. Here’s the official commercial.

Click here to view the embedded video.

[via BoyGeniusReport]

The Palm Pre 2 also comes with 3.1-inch capacitive touch screen, slide out QWERTY keyboard, 16GB internal memory, 5 megapixel camera and built in GPS / WiFi / Bluetooth. Improved webOS 2.0 will feature “Stacks”, allow you to group related “cards” together for easier task selection.

Other features include:

Just Type – Start an email, create a message, update your status, search your favorite websites – all before you’ve even opened an app.(1) With webOS 2.0, whenever you want to do something on your phone – whether it’s emailing, texting, searching or almost anything – just type. And Just Type is open to developers, so they can integrate with the search function and add their own user-customizable shortcuts, called Quick Actions.

HP Synergy – webOS was the first mobile OS to connect you seamlessly to multiple web services. With the Synergy feature, you just have to sign in to your Facebook, Google, Microsoft® Exchange, LinkedIn and Yahoo! accounts and your information automatically populates your phone.(3) webOS 2.0 will extend the support for Synergy so developers can easily plug new Messaging, Contacts and Calendar application sources directly into the core webOS experiences.(4)

Exhibition – A new way to use your webOS phone, Exhibition lets you run apps designed specifically for the Palm Touchstone Charging Dock, turning charge time into useful time.(4, 5) Set your phone on the dock and Exhibition launches automatically, showing you anything from today’s agenda to a slideshow of your Facebook photos. Exhibition will enable developers to display aspects of their existing app experience or create specialized apps for use when users have their webOS device in charge mode on the charging dock.

Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 Beta – With version 2.0, webOS now supports a beta of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 in the browser, which provides access to rich, Flash based web content.

Favorites – With webOS 2.0, you can tag your favorite contacts so they appear as favorites in Phone and Contacts views. When you search for them by name, they instantly show up at the top of the Contacts, Email, Messaging and Phone apps. Favorites make it simple to get in touch fast.

Skype Mobile™ (Verizon Wireless only) – For Verizon Wireless customers, webOS 2.0 supports Skype-to-Skype calls and messaging while in the United States to anywhere in the world, and low-rate calls to international landlines and cell phones.

Text Assist – webOS 2.0 offers greatly expanded capabilities to spell check, auto correct, set up macros and customize the dictionary.

Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite – An all-new document viewer from the leading provider of mobile document viewers offers support for Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and provides integration with a variety of services, including Google Docs and Dropbox.

Facebook 2.0 – Available via the Palm App Catalog, Facebook 2.0 will support Facebook IM via Synergy in the Messaging application,(4) as well as Stacks, status updates via Quick Action and the Exhibition feature.

Browser – The browser adds support for more HTML5 features, including geolocation support. OpenSearch plugin support makes it easy to add your favorite websites to Just Type web search.

Messaging – The unified Messaging app in webOS 2.0 adds Yahoo! IM and buddy management. Customers can now connect to their buddies through SMS, MMS, Google Talk, AIM and Yahoo! IM.

VPN – webOS 2.0 supports the most popular ways to connect to a corporate network, including IPsec and Cisco AnyConnect mobile optimized VPN, which supports SSL (TLS and DTLS).

App Catalog – The redesigned Palm App Catalog makes finding and discovering great apps even easier.(7) And the new Software Manager helps you keep your apps up-to-date.

Launcher – A redesigned app launcher lets you add, label and reorder launcher pages.

Phone – The webOS 2.0 Phone app lets you easily dial your favorites and offers reverse area code lookup and Skype Mobile integration (Skype Mobile for Verizon Wireless only).

Accounts – The new Accounts app provides a single place to manage all your Synergy accounts.

Bluetooth® keyboards – webOS now supports Bluetooth keyboards and Bluetooth SPP peripherals, enabling applications such as barcode readers and realty lock boxes.

A host of developer features – In addition to Exhibition, Just Type and Synergy APIs, webOS 2.0 adds Node.JS, enabling developers to create services in JavaScript. They also can now use the webOS Plug-In Development Kit (PDK) to combine C/C++ with web technologies in a single app.

A tipster has given Engadget pictures of what appear to be Verizon training materials for their employees, and it clearly mention the Palm Pre 2. Sadly, we still unable to retained other information on Palm Pre 2. It seems the device might even hit Sprint and AT&T as well as the pervious Palm’s handsets.

[via Engadget]

Feature changes to existing applications
System

* This release includes minor fixes and enhancements to support the public release of the webOS PDK.
* This release may require you to update certain apps to their latest version to properly support the launch of the webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK). If you have a game that is not saving your game information correctly (high scores, stages, settings), check the App Catalog for updates. For more information on updating apps, see Using App Catalog .

Web

* If a user enters text in a field on certain websites, the screen focus now remains on the text being entered.
* This release fixes a rare problem so that podcasts now download correctly.

Security

This release addresses several security issues with the Palm webOS software.

We’d like to thank Nils of MWR InfoSecurity and Chris Clark for their help in identifying the issues addressed in this release. Individuals interested in contacting Palm to report suspected security issues can find more information at palm.com/security .

Read the upcoming features and enhancements on Palm’s blog here

http://developer.palm.com/blog/2010/08/announcing-early-access-for-webos-2-0/

Introducing webOS™ 2.0

Introducing webOS 2.0, the next generation of Palm’s amazing mobile operating system! webOS 2.0 is the biggest webOS update yet, offering great new features for consumers and developers alike.

webOS 2.0 will be released later this year, and a beta version of the webOS 2.0 SDK is available now via the SDK Early Access Program.

In this article we’ll give everyone a sneak peek at some of what’s coming in webOS 2.0. We’ll focus on a few of the features that are most relevant to developers, but there’s something here for everyone—so read on!*
Stacks

Experience the next-generation of multi-tasking

Palm’s groundbreaking card metaphor made multi-tasking on a handheld device easy and intuitive for the first time. webOS 2.0 takes it to the next level by grouping related cards in stacks, reducing clutter, and making it even easier to move quickly between tasks. webOS 2.0 automatically stacks cards for you when it makes sense, and you can also drag and drop cards to manage stacks yourself.

As a developer, you don’t need to do anything special to take advantage of Stacks—new cards resulting from user actions in your app will automatically be grouped with your app’s main card.
Just Type

Let users “just type” to search or act within your app

Universal Search has always been the fastest way to find stuff in webOS, whether that stuff is on your device or online. In webOS 2.0, Universal Search has gotten even better—and it’s not just for searching anymore, so we’ve renamed it Just Type.

Among the many Just Type enhancements is a powerful feature called Quick Actions. Start an email, create a message, update your status, search your favorite websites—all without having to launch an app. With webOS 2.0, whenever you want to do something on your phone, whether it’s emailing, texting, searching, or almost anything else, just type!

As a developer, you can expand your apps’ capabilities using the power of Just Type. You can hook into Just Type in a couple of different ways:

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Enable users to search within your app. If your data is stored on device, Just Type will present real-time suggestions as the user types. If your data is online, users will type a query and then tap to launch your app, where you’ll present the results.
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Define your own Quick Actions. Make it easier than ever for your users to update social status, set reminders, add items to a shopping list—or do whatever it takes to get things done in the context of your app.

Exhibition

Deliver all-new experiences for the Palm Touchstone

Run new apps designed specifically for phones placed on the Palm Touchstone™ Charging Dock. Set your phone on the dock and Exhibition launches automatically, showing you anything from today’s agenda to a slideshow of your Facebook photos.

A few Exhibition options will be built into webOS 2.0, but we’re counting on you and your fellow developers to make Exhibition truly great– think slide shows; stock, news and sports tickers; social network updates; virtual pets; a killer alarm clock–you get the picture! You can add Exhibition support to an existing app, or build something new just for Exhibition.
Synergy

Connect with webOS Contacts, Calendar, and Messaging

When webOS was introduced, Palm Synergy instantly set a new standard for accessing and managing your personal data on the go. Synergy brings together information from multiple sources automatically, so everything you need is in one place. Sign in to your Facebook®, Google™, Microsoft® Exchange, LinkedIn®, and Yahoo! accounts, and information populates your phone automatically. Facebook friends’ birthdays show up in your contacts. Work and personal calendars appear side by side. IM and text messages are combined into a single conversation.

In webOS 2.0, we’re opening Synergy up to our developer ecosystem, so your customers can pull more of the web onto their phones. You’ll be able to develop Synergy connectors for Contacts, Calendar, and Messaging–and later, for other webOS data types as well. Using the new Synergy APIs, you can let your users:

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Connect to your chat or IM network from the webOS Messaging app
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Access their personal contacts, their favorite businesses, or your community’s shared address book from the webOS Contacts UI
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View and manage their personal and shared calendars, keep track of their favorite sports and entertainment events, and more, from within the webOS Calendar app

JavaScript Services

Roll your own services with Node.js

The popular Node.js runtime environment is built into webOS 2.0, which means that you can now develop not just webOS apps but also services in JavaScript. The active Node ecosystem is on hand to provide community support and a rapidly growing library of modules that you can use in your webOS services.

Besides powering the new Synergy APIs, JavaScript services strengthen webOS’s support for background processing and add new capabilities—like low-level networking, file system access, and binary data processing—to the web technology stack.
PDK Plug-ins

Mix web technologies and C/C++ components in a single app

Today, you can use the webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) to build games and immersive apps in C/C++. But the feature that gives the PDK its name—the ability to build C/C++ plug-ins for your HTML/JavaScript/CSS apps—is still in beta as of 1.4.5.

This feature will exit beta in webOS 2.0, opening the door for you to distribute apps that incorporate PDK plug-ins. Using plug-ins, you can more easily port app logic from other platforms while leveraging the Mojo Framework to give users a familiar interface and integrate seamlessly into webOS.

Even if you’re not porting, plug-ins give you the option of utilizing the PDK for graphics- and performance-intensive features as needed, while building the rest of your app in HTML/JavaScript/CSS—and enjoying the lightweight development process and rapid iteration that these web technologies enable.
HTML5 Enhancements

Tap in to new capabilities for your apps and sites

webOS 2.0 adds a number of new HTML5 features and enhancements, giving you more tools to work with when building apps and sites for webOS. Highlights include:

* Enhanced Canvas support, including image data and gradients
* Support for Web Storage—both local and session storage
* Geolocation support, allowing websites to access location information with the user’s permission
* Application Cache, which lets websites cache resources on the device for offline use

Since that announcement, and HP’s subsequent PR battle with fans all over the world to suggest that HP never meant to say that smartphones weren’t coming, things have settled down. And, perfectly timed with that calm, is AllThingsD saying that they’ve got it on firm grounding that Palm is indeed working on an upgrade to webOS. Additionally, they’ve got new hardware on the way.

“I’m not allowed to talk about future road maps, especially because we’re in the process of being acquired by HP. But yes we have a road map. We are working on future devices. And a new version of the OS. So I think, you’re going to find the next year very exciting.” That’s what Josh Marinacci said during a developer event yesterday. So, that means something’s coming. The tricky part? That whole “the next year,” thing. That could mean we don’t see any fruits of their labor until next year. In the mean time, what are current owners of the Pre/Plus and Pixi/Plus going to do? Statements that create more questions never sit well with us.

[via SlashGear]