Palm has posted a new ROM update for users of the unlocked GSM Treo 680 smartphone. The version 1.12 software update offers Microsoft Exchange Direct Push Technology, power saving enhancements, support for larger SD & SDHC cards, enhanced ringtone support and incorporates previous updates and security patches.

After over eight months of dealing with the quirks and limitations inherent in any beta software release, Palm has finally posted a final release version of the Palm Desktop software for Windows Vista. This new version is still listed at v6.2 but without the beta tag.

This new build is compatible with Windows Vista Basic, Premium, Business, and Ultimate 32-bit editions. 64-bit editions of Vista are not supported. Windows XP, surprisingly, in both Home and Professional 32-bit editions are supported by this version, but only for users of the new Palm Centro. Another surprisingly supported OS is the XP-based Windows Media Center Edition (a notable first for the Palm Desktop).

The version of the Treo 680 without carrier branding has received a system software update with a number of enhancements, including official support for higher-capacity memory cards, power saving enhancements, and more.

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MobileRead's Bob Russell has posted a fascinating article that is certainly makes for interesting reading, what with the rumors and official statements from Palm their own in-house Linux-based OS will not be ready until early 2009. The debacle surrounding the flameout of Cobalt/OS 6.0 by PalmSouce after numerous missed deadlines and broken promises certainly makes for a cautionary tale for anyone thinking that a robust mobile OS is an easy thing to create.

In addition to the Cobalt editorial the article has three high-resolution product sheets from Singapore's Oswin Technology. The images showcase two Cobalt-based smartpohones that never saw the light of day even in their native Asian markets. While a bit chunky and unstylish by today's standards (especially the "Slide ID" flagship), the phones' specifications list is still impressive today, besting all of Palm's current offerings in several areas such as a large portrait 2.8" LCD and a 3 megapixel camera with flash along with hardware-assisted MPEG-4 encoding and decoding.

Directory Assistant for Palm OS has just been updated and given a new name. Now called Tryda, the software remains a free and handy tool for Palm OS smartphone users.

Tryda automates queries to the Residential and Business phone directories in the US and works like a free 411 service. It will even preform reverse queries and look up names from phone numbers. You can easily dial from the results and even get maps and directions to results with a single click. The new version features a streamlined UI, the ability to save favorites, airport code support and the ability to find by business category.

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One of Palm's vice presidents has promised that his company is on course to have the first model running a new Linux-based version of the Palm OS on the market in early 2009.

The Pink Palm Cento is now live on Palm.com's website. You can now place orders on the Pink model with the same $99 pricing (After Rebates and with New 2-Year Service Agreement). The Pink Centro is also said to be available in local Sprint retail stores.

The Pink Centro is also featured in the upcoming 27 Dresses movie and Palm is also positioning the fuchsia hued smartphone as a Valentine's Day gift. There is also a "worst bridesmaid dress" photo contest with with the award being a Palm Cento and a trip to Los Angeles.

Traffic Jam 2, a new Palm OS sequel to the original Traffic Jam has been released. Developed by Filipino software house eSoft Interactive and co-published with Astraware, Traffic Jam 2 has already been the recipient of some solid reviews in its Windows Mobile incarnation. As stated by the developer, the goal of the game is still the same: to get the yellow Beetle out of the traffic jam by moving vehicles out of its way in order to solve the congestion puzzle.

The Palm OS version of Traffic Jam 2 requires 1.2mb of available device memory. It runs on most 320x320 Palm OS 5 devices, with the notable exception of the older Tungsten T, T2, Zire 71 and Garmin iQue 3600 which have a limited amount of dynamic heap memory. A free limited trial version is available for download and the full version registration costs $9.95.

Following the recent sale of the company, eReader has reduced the price of the Palm OS Pro version of its eBook software by half to $4.95. The new registration price buys not only the Pro version of the app but a basic version of Merriam Webster's Pocket Dictionary containing 40,400 entries and a few free e-books as well. The free e-books are actually public-domain titles modified and formatted in the eReader format. They are the 9/11 Commission Report, H.G. Wells' sci-fi classic The Time Machine, and an eReader bestseller catalog sampler. The price of the add-on Agfa Font Pack, unfortunately, remains unchanged at $14.95.

A new photo of an upcoming smartphone from Palm Inc. -- code-named Drucker but likely to be marketed as the Treo 800w -- has now been seen for the first time.

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Earlier this week we covered TreoCentral’s CES report that detailed the existence of an unbranded, pre-release white GSM Centro. Now an additional photo has surfaced from this thread on the TreoCentral forums and offers up a higher-quality look at an AT&T-branded Centro. This device is now about 99% certain to be the next Palm OS Garnet device announced from Palm, as Sprint's reported three-month launch exclusivity period draws to a close.

One of the only remaining unknown details is whether this will be marketed under the "Centro" banner as is the Sprint CDMA version or if Palm is going to call this the Treo 500p or Treo 690, as rumored earlier. As stated previously, I would not be surprised to see Palm split the line between Windows Mobile-based Treos and Garnet-based Centros in 2008 onward, similar to Palm’s own "Zire" and "Tungsten" sub-branding from 2002-2004.

Fictionwise has announced that it has acquired the eReader.com retail electronic book business unit from Motricity. eReader.com is one of the largest and longest-running eBook retailers on the Internet, with a large customer base and over 23,000 titles available from major publishers and authors.

The company formerly known as PeanutPress was first acquired by Palm Inc in 2001 and became part of the Palm Digital Media Group. It then changed hands to PalmSource after the spin-off and was then sold to PalmGear/Motricity in 2003 who would rebrand it as eReader.com in 2004.

One of the more pleasant surprises amongst new Palm OS entertainment titles of 2007 was Deluxeware's Zombie Attack, recently updated to version 1.10. This Zombie-busting game offers a mixture of action and strategy and is now at version 1.10 from its initial 1.0 release version. According to Deluxeware, a "bombs bug" has been fixed. It's also possible that support has been improved for the newest Palm OS device, the Centro, since the title's initial release. My PIC review of this entertaining little title can be found here.

In other Palm OS software news, Hobbyist Software has kicked off 2008 with a slew of updates to their line of Treo utilities. The great Phone Technician utility has been updated to version 3.0. Another Hobbyist utility, Butler, has just seen an update to 4.63. Genius version 1.44 is new, as is version 3.34 of Initiate and version 1.16 of Power Hero. Finally, Reset Doctor is now up to 1.90 and Rollover is up to 1.04. The PIC review of Phone Technician can be found here, and look out ...

Palm's string of cameo appearances in major motion pictures continues. Palm's Paul Loeffler has posted a series of moblog photos to the Palm Corporate Blog from the premiere of the new comedy "27 Dressess". 27 Dresses stars Katherine Heigl, of Grey's Anatomy fame, as a lovesick single girl who is tired of repeatedly serving as a bridesmaid.

In our annual year in review article, PalmInfocenter takes a look at all of the major events that took place in the Palm world over the past 12 months. 2007 was a year of alternation and change to come in the world of Palm. After riding on a wave of Treo popularity in 2006, the year saw increased competition, internal discomposure and corporate recapitalizations.

Read on for our look back at the Palm Economy in 2007.

Recently the question of what to call Palm's next generation OS has been a source of confusion and commotion around the boards here at PIC. Members have so far been referring to it by a multitude of names and acronyms such as: Palm OS 2, POS II, POX, Palm's Palm OS, ALPOS, Palm's next-generation linux based operating system and even Palm OS Mobile Professional Ultimate Treo edition. So the need to have a single, proper way to refer to the new OS is crucial. Fortunately, PalmInfocenter has recently learned of the code-name being used around Palm Inc. from a reliable source.

The internal code name for Palm's next generation OS is Nova. The current release schedule being discussed by Palm management is to announce and get Nova out to developers in some form later this calendar year. I've heard reports from inside the company that Nova is presently being demoed and tested internally on an unreleased future Palm device code-named Zeppelin.

While Palm does not have an active booth presence at the 2008 CES, several Palm-related tidbits have managed to emerge from the show. The latest Palm-related report from CES further confirms the impending release of a GSM Centro running the Garnet OS. TreoCentral spotted a white GSM Centro at an undisclosed Palm accessory manufacturer's booth and has posted a brief summary of their findings. They managed to get a few minutes with the device and take some reasonably high-quality shots of the unit's keyboard as well as its battery compartment. One interesting fact from their brief hands-on time was that the GSM Centro's keyboard is slightly more angled than its CDMA brethren. No word as of yet if this going to remain on the production GSM Centro or if this is an older, pre-production mockup with a different keyboard design.

Pimlico Software, makers of the popular DateBk6, have released a new title for Palm OS. DbFixIt is a new utility that is designed to detect and repair errors in Palm OS databases. In particular, it knows the precise structure of the standard Palm OS and proprietary PalmOne PIM databases and can selectively repair those errors. In short the program is a lifesaver for corrupted PIM databases and hotsync issues. Pimlico says it will be of particular use to people who rarely sync with a desktop, or when your device has corruption issues. It seems to be based on the dbScan utility, which has personally rescued me from many hotsync issues before.

DbFixIt v1.1b is available now for all Palm OS devices running Palm OS 2.0 or later. It comes with a working trial and costs $12.95 to purchase. All proceeds go towards wildlife conservation and the Dewar's Gorilla Haven project.

After this latest round of Palm rumors and leaks, we can now paint a fairly accurate of Palm's product roadmap for the remainder of the year. With the impending arrival of a Palm OS GSM Palm Centro, the series of CDMA Treo 800w rumors, and now these two new Drucker and Wanda semi-confirmations, Palm's 2008 plans are looking a bit brighter than some had previously feared.

Palm has posted a note on its blog that it will soon no longer be providing the IBM WebSphere Micro Environment Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on its site. As of Jan 12, Palm will no longer provide a download for the JVM runtime. The Java Micro Environment JVM is required to run J2ME Java based applications on Palm OS devices such as Opera Mini and Google's downloadable Gmail client.

The WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment for Palm OS can still be downloaded here until this Saturday.

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Palm is making a comeback in the second quarter this year on Vodafone. According to Boy Genius Report, the new device will be called the Drucker and will be a top-tiered device replacing the Treo 750v on Vodafone, although an AT&T release is also not out of the picture. The device will sport a... Read More

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This weekend's final bit of Palm-related rumor news was confirmation of the pink Palm Centro, covered earlier by PIC. This was pretty much a given after the high resolution leaked product shot appeared on sprintusers. While certainly not an event that is going to turn the industry on its ear, it’s an encouraging sign that Palm Centro sales remain strong enough for Sprint to commit to a large quantity purchase of an additional color scheme. Users on the TreoCentral forums are confirming from Sprint customer service reps that the pink Centro is going to be available for phone sales from January 6th on, with in-store availability this Sunday, January 13th.

PalmInfocenter has been awarded the Best Palm / PDA news site in the 2007 PalmAddict Reader Awards. PIC received the most votes with just under 20,000 people voting among 30 other popular blogs, tech and mobile focused sites.

I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all who voted and read the site. And also a huge thank you to the PIC writing staff, contributors, moderators and volunteers, without whom I don't think this award would be possible. All of your efforts are enormously appreciated.

I'd also like to announce that today marks the ninth anniversary of the founding of PalmInfocenter. It was on this day in 1999 that I first started posting about Palm news and software on a green and black site designed to resemble a Palm III backlit screen. Here's to many more years and a exciting 2008!

Bill Gates concluded his 12th and final CES keynote with a small tidbit that left Palm-watchers everywhere speculating about the existence of yet another new Windows Mobile Treo. Several sites, Engadget in particular, posted stills from Gates' slideshow imagery of Windows Mobile-based smartphones. A device clearly identifiable as the classic Treo formfactor was shown in white or possibly light silver with a square (likely 320x320) LCD running what presumably is the touchscreen-based WM 6.1 Professional. The device also appears to have a "smile" keyboard and the Centro/Z22/LifeDrive-esque "ring" 5-way navigator pad. It also has a section of dark grey plastic surrounding the earpiece, which is a styling cue not found on any current Treo or Centro.

While some have speculated that this is the mythical Treo 800w or 850v, codenamed "Drucker" we covered yesterday, that device's spec sheet listed it as having a flush touchscreen. The device depicted in Gates' presentation definitely has the conventional recessed touchscreen. I expect this to be the CDMA 800w device hinted at for several months now. Such a device has likely been in gestation longer than the "Drucker" ...

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A leaked roadmap for Vodafone's 2008 releases includes listings for new smartphones from Palm and Hewlett-Packard.

There have been rumors for some time that Palm, Inc. is in the processor of developing the Treo 800w, its first smartphone with Wi-Fi, but details have always been sketchy. However, new information leaking out of Vodafone gives a fairly complete overview of this model -- which will supposedly debut in the next few months.

Palm's other leaked Windows Mobile 6.1-based device for today is a considerably higher-end offering. Codenamed the "Palm Drucker", this is billed by Vodafone as a direct replacement for the aging Treo 750v and also comes to us via the Boy Genius Report. "Drucker" will sport a 320x320 touchscreen that Palm OS fans have come to love alongside, of course, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional (Pocket PC) instead of the WM Standard edition.

This device will appear earlier than the rumored "Palm Wanda", as it carries an estimated launch date of July 2008 with a pricetag of 270 GBP, equivalent to a whopping $533 USD. Unfortunately, no picture is provided of this device but I would expect it to look similar to the leaked images of the speculated Treo 800w from a few months ago—basically, thicker than a Centro but thinner than a Treo, with a slightly wider body and the usual "smile" pattern keyboard.

Monday's CES 2008 kick-off has already brought a larger-than-usual crop of Palm product leaks and rumors. Palm's aggressive Windows Mobile release strategy seems to be picking up steam, as The Boy Genius Report has posted some leaked Vodafone internal presentation slides that definitely let the cat out of the bag regarding Palm's two new WM 6.1-based Treos.

The first, codenamed the Palm "Wanda", looks to be a successor to the non-U.S. market Treo 500. The Wanda is being touted as a "Prosumer messaging device" and is directly referenced as being the 500v's successor. The leaked Vodafone slide reveals a phone basically identical to the earlier 500v as far as its cosmetics. The LCD is a carryover from the 500v (2.2" 320x240) as is the 2 megapixel camera. However, the "Wanda" ups the ante significantly in a radio upgrade to a fast 3G HSDPA radio versus the 500v’s slower UMTS while also adding 2008's hottest phone feature, built-in GPS.

The Palm Wanda will be replacing the Treo 500v in Vodafone's lineup. The device will have tri-band GSM/EDGE and single band UMTS/HSDPA. New to this model is GPS. According to The Boy Genius Report, the Palm Wanda will sport Windows... Read More

BEIKS English Dictionary with Thesaurus has been updated for Palm OS devices. BEIKS English Dictionary includes definitions and pronunciation guides for over 34,000 words and expressions. It also includes a English Thesaurus database with over 55,000 unique English terms. Both apps are based on the expandable BEIKS Dictionary Reader, which is specially optimized for one-hand operation, minimal memory requirements and optimal access speed.

BEIKS English Dictionary with Thesaurus for Palm OS v6.0 is available now with a free trial period. It costs $19.95 for the full version if you decide to keep it. The Thesaurus is also available separately for $10.

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Rumors of a Pink Palm Centro have been brought up on the SprintUsers forum along with an official looking image. The image shows a pink colored Centro in the same style as some of the official promo images, which were also leaked shortly before the official Centro announcement. While a release date is far from certain at this point, a couple of posters claim to have heard of a January 6th availability date and also an in-store date of Jan 13th from various Sprint retail employees.

The Palm Centro is currently exclusively available from Sprint in the US in Onyx Black and Ruby Red. It starts at $99 when purchased with a select data plan and two year service agreement.

They weren't too kind when it was still a living, breathing device – as a matter of fact they, along with the majority of the internet community, were downright scathing – but popular tech blog Engadget has managed to get their hands on Palm's doomed Mobile Companion, the hapless Foleo. A short review is pending, but in the meantime they’ve thrown up a gallery of pics, perusable here.

The oft-maligned Foleo was announced in May this year, to general derision from the Internet technocrati. The brainchild of Palm founder Jeff Hawkins, it was meant to spearhead a new Palm product line, but was instead ignominiously cancelled barely three months later. If you're interested in even more shots of the Foleo in action, checkout PIC's hands on preview from the announcement.

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inDev Software has released a new game exclusively for Palm OS devices. inCubus is billed by its developer as a "simple but addictive logical game which will explode your mind!" The game combines elements from Bejeweled, Tetris and Color Lines to create an intriguing and unique new puzzle contest. There are three different game types and user selectable diffuctulty levels and point goals.

inCubus v1.00 is available now for devices running Palm OS 5 and higher with a high resolution display. It comes with a free trial period and sells for $9.95 USD.

Mark/Space has released a new version of the Missing Sync for Palm OS. This update primarily brings compatibility with Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard). Additional updates include Palm Centro support, contact and calendar synchronization improvements and a number of bug fixes. The new version is free to version 6 customers.

The Missing Sync for Palm OS provides Mac OS synchronization for most Palm OS devices. It works as a replacement to the Palm desktop application and HotSync Manager and includes a number of additional tools and services including iTunes & iPhoto syncing and a video conduit and encoder.

The popular Palm OS skinning software, PalmRevolt, has just seen its first update in some time. PalmRevolt enables you to customize the Palm OS interface so you can give your Treo the Cobalt look it always wanted or choose among the excellent skin selections over at 3GX's site. You can even create your own custom look with an original skin. The latest updates include a significant performance improvement, better support for one-handed navigation, skin compression, ability to change the "blue halo" highlighting color, color editing and numerous bug fixes.

PalmRevolt v0.95b for Palm OS is available now for $14.95 and comes with a free trial period. At the moment, the developer has it on sale for more than 30% off, at $9.95 for a limited time.

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The Palm Centro is featured on the cover of the January 2008 issue of Consumer Reports magazine. The January issue contains Consumer Reports's annual look at the current landscape of cell phone deals, plans and carriers.

Palm is of course included in the mix of 60 standard and smart phones reviewed. The Palm Centro is noted in their list of best choices for compact smartphones, and the Treo 755p is given a nod as a best choice for office-type users. The January issue of Consumer Reports magazine is on most newstands now and is available online to subscribers.