We’ve seen many leaks from Palm and Sprint before. But it has been a while since there was something huge. This time, there is finally something really important and really huge to talk about. Many of us have suspected of an imminent update to the Palm Pre. It appears we were right.

Forum members go4craig and Leathal at Precentral had to resort to the last hope for their Palm Pre smartphones. They applied the webOS Doctor to get their Pre phones back to factory standard. But in doing so, what a surprise they found; it installed webOS 1.2 for them.

Mainly, two features were found that give us a clue of what’s coming. One of the new features is the ability to enter your account information in the App Catalog. We know paid apps are coming soon, so this isn’t much of a surprise. Now the “Select all” feature, found within the browser, that’s exciting. This could mean that we might be getting improved copy and paste functionality.

There is also a fix for location services that might resolve our complaints about that big brother thing going on. Allowing for finer controls regarding how the data is collected, and a way to turn off data usage altogether. So what do you think? Maybe this means that webOS 1.2 could become available this month.

[Via Precentral]