Among those changes are include the following:

• The option to purchase MP3 from Amazon over the phone network connection instead of Wi-Fi
• The option in App Catalog to enter credit card information, re-download previously installed apps, and new Share button to enable you to send a link to the app page by email or text message
• Web browser bookmarks are now backed up to your Palm profile
• New options in Bluetooth paired car kit
• Enhancements in Calendar inlcuding the Map Location on the event details screen, changing calendar’s display color. Besides the calendar now recognizes the 7th day of a given month as the first Monday/Tuesday/etc.
• Enhancements in Contacts including the Copy All options that is now available on the Edit submenu in the application menu.
• Enhancements in Email options
• Media sync now allows for synchronizing photos without requiring the full-resolution originals
• New Copy All option is now available in Messaging
• Enhancements in Music playback
• You can now turn carrier data services on or off in the Phone application
• Photos app now support JPG, BMP and PNG format

Follow this link to read more details about the changes and info.

The Palm webOS 1.2 will include many new features as well as bug fixes. Below is the complete list of the Release Notes:

Adds the following updates and enhancements:

• Enhanced copy feature added to browser and email (shift key + tap and drag to select text).
• Improved global search to catch synonyms. For example, “Movies” brings up YouTube and Videos.
• Send/Receive vCards via the contacts application (tap left menu drop down)
• LinkedIn enhancements
• Filter search in email
• Bluetooth for expanded car-kit support
• Improved auto-linking of contacts
• Save inline images in email
• Resume support for podcasts and long songs
• Download files in browser
• Backup/Restore of web browser bookmarks
• Support Amazon MP3 over WAN (not just WiFi)
• Photo Albums sync via Media Sync

Addresses the following issues:

• Capability has been added to dial phone numbers from a calendar notes field.
• User interface now displays “updating PRL” correctly when you tap on Update PRL in Phone Preferences.
• Device will no longer reboot while attempting to download music when there was not available user memory.
• Real-time updates on Yahoo Finance now work properly.
• Sprint Navigation is now able to use free form addresses for navigation, including addresses from personal email accounts.
• PDF files can now be opened from a browser link.
• If the device receives a notification alert (for example an SMS), a clock alarm would not play unless the notification alert was dismissed.
• If a calendar event is snoozed then moved to a future time, the event notification will now appear at the proper time.
• When editing or creating a calendar event and toggling to another application before saving the event, the event will no longer be duplicated.
• On Google calendar, all day events that are changed to timed events on a computer are now properly updated.
• If a cancellation is received for an event and the user selects “Remove from Calendar”, the event is now removed from the device and desktop.
• If large attachments are sent in an e-mail, the e-mail is no longer sent twice.
• When setting email sync time to manual the device will no longer automatically sync the email accounts.
• Certain properties of tasks that can be set via the computer (but not displayed on the device) will no longer be deleted on the server.
• When two contacts were linked (one with a last name and one without) you will now be able to find them in SMS and email.
• Syncing issue with personal accounts has been resolved.

[via: prethinking]

Palm Pixi is Palm’s thinnest phone ever with a visible full keyboard, 2.63″ touchscreen, 3.5mm headset jack, 2 megapixel camera with flash, email/IM support, GPS, 8GB of internal memory, rubberized back cover. It runs on dual-band CDMA and EV-DO Rev A but therer’s no Wi-Fi.

Another new application in the App Catalog are Fliq Bookmarks, a helpful utility from Mark/Space that works with The Missing Sync for Palm Pre to transfer Safari Bookmarks from your desktop to your Palm Pre. This app currently available for Mac but the PC version is coming soon. Anyway, it’s good to see more apps coming to the Palm App Catalog.

In addition to the mentioned above there are also many feature changes to the existing applications below:

• Default reminder interval for calendar accounts on your phone are 15 minutes for timed events and one day for all-day events
• The phone application opens more quickly when launched from the camera
• Enhanced support for time zones in Clock
• Synchronization between friends added or deleted on your Facebook and the Facebook account in Contacts on the phone now works correctly as well as the Google contact
• Improvements in Messaging features including the emoticons, the time format, etc
• Improved functionality of person reminders

For the complete list of the new features and changes of the Palm webOS 1.1 you may take a look at the release notes at www.palm.com/webos-pre-sprint-en. And one more, in the webOS 1.1 Palm has resolved the issue preventing media sync from working with latest version of iTunes 8.2.1 so now you can have seamless access to your music, photos and videos through iTunes again.

If you are Palm Pre owner, Palm provides system updates wirelessly to webOS phones which are released periodically and are intended to increase stability, improve the user experience. It means all these updates will be delivered automatically to your phone. However the manual updates is also possible in case you missed the automatic updates. For detail instructions about the updates you may check this step-by-step document.

Palm today announced that the Palm Pre, the first phone from Palm based on the new Palm webOS mobile platform, will debut in Canada in Canada exclusively on Bell Mobility’s 3G high-speed mobile network in the second half of 2009. However the pricing for the phone has not yet determined.

Palm Pre with the new Palm webOS is designed for mobile use. It has a new user interface and hardware design that makes it the most integrated and user-friendly mobile phone.

In summary, below is the Palm Pre Features :

• 3G EVDO Rev. A high-speed connectivity
• Integrated GPS
• Large 3.1-inch touch screen with a vibrant 24-bit color 320×480 resolution HVGA display
• Gesture area, which enables simple, intuitive gestures for navigation
• Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• Email, including Outlook EAS (for access to corporate Microsoft Exchange servers), as well as personal email support (POP3, IMAP)
• Robust messaging support (IM, SMS and MMS capabilities)
• High-performance, desktop-class web browser
• Great multimedia experience and performance (pictures, video playback, music), featuring a 3-megapixel camera with LED flash and extended depth of field, and a standard 3.5mm headset jack
• Bluetooth(R) 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
• 8GB internal memory (~7GB user available)
• USB mass storage mode
• MicroUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
• Proximity sensor, which automatically disables the touch screen and turns off the display whenever you put the phone up to your ear
• Light sensor, which dims the display if the ambient light is dark, such as at night or in a movie theater, to reduce power usage
• Accelerometer, which automatically orients web pages and photos to your perspective
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
• Ringer switch, which easily silences the device with one touch
• Removable, rechargeable battery
• Dimensions: 59.57mm (W) x 100.53mm (L, closed) x 16.95mm (D)
• Weight: ~135 grams