Since the Palm webOS 1.2 leak, there has been a lot of buzz. Now we have word of some videos demonstrating the new features that will make their way into our Pre handsets via webOS 1.2, hopefully, by the end of this month. But keep on reading, and don’t forget the videos at the end. Thanks to jhoff80, he is the person who uploaded these videos to youtube. And thanks also to XellD from our Pre Forums for the tip.

On the first video you can see the new Edit, Select All menu option, along with the fix to the location services, the search feature for email and now the App Catalog supports credit card information storage, which means the beta tag may be coming off the catalog soon. There are a few more features like; Zoom animation in the browser, the ability to tap and select portions of a web page by simply holding Shift and tapping on the screen, you can also tap and hold the orange button to save a web photo to Pictures or share it with others, pressing the same orange button and tapping a link offers options to open in a new card, share the link or copy it. The Tasks are sortable by due date and priority, and tapping a text entry box zooms it and a minor, but important change for many, is the ability to enable the audio clock alarm even when the ringer switch is off.

The second video is on browser downloading, apparently, you will be able to download directly from the browser. In the video jhoff80 shows how he downloaded some PDF files. According to him, the leaked 1.2 allows you to save any file types, supported by the phone or not. For anything unsupported by the phone – which he showed on the video with ZIP files – it can’t open them, so it gives a no handler installed message, but it is still saved to /media/internal/downloads. Apparently, the only two files it won’t save are MP3 and MP4, which it automatically streams and doesn’t give the option to save them. Lets hope we get that option to save mp3s and mp4s in the near future.

[Via jhoff80's Channel]