After what it seem, and felt like an eternity, we finally get our Palm Pre and Pixi smartphones to the webOS version 1.3.5. It has been just over a month ago since the update to version 1.3.1, and shortly after the Pixi got version 1.3.2. But it still feels like it was years ago, and now we finally got our hands on version 1.3.5.
With this new webOS version, we can now download and store a lot of applications, since the limitation on the number of apps that could be installed has been eliminated. This download wasn’t that big, with only 13MB, but we actually got some much needed fixes.
With out further ado, here’s Palm’s change log:
webOS 1.3.5
* Version information
* New applications
* Feature changes to existing applications
Version information
* Version: webOS 1.3.5
* Release date: 28 December 2009
New applications
NONE
Feature changes to existing applications
App Catalog
* App Catalog significantly improves the application download experience.
* A user can now download multiple applications simultaneously.
* Downloads continue in the background if the user moves away from the download screen.
* A user can manually pause, resume, and cancel downloads.
* A user can also download all available updates for the user’s downloaded applications with a single tap.
* App Catalog automatically resumes downloads in cases where a download was paused because it was interrupted—for example, if a user moves out of network coverage and then moves back into coverage.
* Users can now take advantage of the full storage capacity of the phone for downloading applications. This gives the user more control over how to allocate the phone’s storage space across applications, music, photos, and other media. Downloaded applications are now stored on the phone’s USB drive.
* App Catalog lists search results based on an improved search algorithm.
* Locations from which users can purchase paid apps from App Catalog now include U.S. territories.
Calendar
* In Day view, switching between days happens more quickly.
Date & Time
* When the user has network time zone enabled, a city and country are no longer displayed.
Device Info
* A user can perform a full erase by pressing and holding Sym + the orange/Option key + power for 10 seconds.
* A user can now edit forwarded text for all email account types.
* When the user sets up more than one Yahoo! email account, the account names displayed in Account List view include the associated email address so that the user can distinguish them.
* If an account mailbox is too full to send messages, after the user frees up space in the mailbox on the server, the user can send the messages successfully.
* The default email signature no longer includes the macron over the “e” in “Pre,” so that the product name shows correctly on a recipient’s phone.
Messaging
* If a user deletes a conversation with a contact, new conversations with that contact are now correctly displayed in Conversations view.
Screen & Lock
* When the screen is locked, the time displays in a new font.
Sprint Navigation
* A user can launch Sprint Navigation from an address in an open contact entry in Contacts.
System
* Users can now take advantage of the full storage capacity of the phone for downloading applications. This gives the user more control over how to allocate the phone’s storage space across applications, music, photos, and other media. Downloaded applications are now stored on the phone’s USB drive.
* This update improves battery life in areas of poor wireless network coverage.
* If the user is working in an application that supports landscape mode (such as Web or Videos), notifications now appear at the bottom of the landscape screen.
* After a user signs in to an existing Palm profile, applications the user installed from App Catalog are restored in the background. The user can use other features of the phone while the apps are being restored.
* Swiping to delete a list item that contains a link no longer causes the link to open in the web browser.
Updates
* After taking the 1.3.5 update, users can download future updates over a 2G (1xRTT 1x title bar icon, GPRS 1x title bar icon, EDGE 1x title bar icon) data connection by opening Updates and tapping Download Now.
Web
* The web browser now supports the display of animated GIFs.
* Audio files with a .3g2 extension play correctly as audio files, not video files.
Security
This release includes a security fix to the dev portal. Credit to Kris Siegal for reporting the issue.
Individuals interested in contacting Palm to report suspected security issues can find more information at palm.com/security .
