Sprint has pushed out the 1.3.5 update for the webOS which runs on the Palm Pre. Along with this are Palm’s release notes, which are thankfully a lot more detailed than the single paragraph that Sprint teased us with yesterday.
There’s a lot going on in the update, from the merely aesthetic (a new font for the screensaver clock) to the welcome (better battery life in areas with poor signals) to the downright scary (“A user can perform a full erase by pressing and holding Sym + the orange/Option key + power for 10 seconds”). There’s even support for ancient technology, in the form of properly displayed animated gifs in the browser.
Most of the big changes, though, are in the app store. You can now download multiple applications at once, and they continue in the background if you want to do something else. There’s an “update all” button, auto-resume for interrupted connections and best of all, you can fill up the whole of the Pre’s memory with applications if you want to.
Once you have installed this update, future updates will be downloadable over a 2G connection, not just 3G.
But the best change is the silliest. You know that little line over the ē in “Prē”, the one everybody ignores? Palm has finally removed it from the default email signature, as apparently it wasn’t showing up properly on some receivers’ phones.
The update is free, and available now.
Software update information for Palm Pre Sprint [Palm]
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