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Palm Pre WebOS 1.1 secret improvements?

rsanchez | Electronics, Gadgets, mobile phones
24 Jul 2009

Last time, Apple’s iPhone 3G was seen as a data security threat because of its easily-hackable OS. Now we will focus the light on Palm Pre’s OS: WebOS.

If you connected to the Internet through your Palm Pre, it would surely have noted you that it needs to be updated to WebOS 1.1. The official document says a ton of improvements. However, Palm seems to have either forgotten to write the other improvements or they wanted you to find out for yourself. Nevertheless, Pre Central has given its thoughts on what these other improvements might be:

Changed sound for notifications – You still can’t change them yourself, but the new sound is much richer, if a little quieter
Animated drop down menus – they look really slick and really change the experience. The Context menus also have some nice animation.
Additional photo upload options – you can now upload a photo to either Facebook or Photobucket
Lots of Photo app improvements. A more distinct bar between all photos and your albums in the photo app, plus they’re calling the Screenshot album “Screen Captures.” The preview thumbs also slide in from the right. Faster photo rendering. Overall the Photos app feels much more fully baked.
Emailing Memos – The memo app now has a menu option to email a memo.
A new font for the Browser – uses Palm’s system font and, truly, it looks fantastic.
Disabled the key combo in browser to open in a new card. Boo-urns.
Javascript interpreter Performance upgrades – this will speed up virtually everything and is great news
Sporadic reports of speed improvements both in the browser and system-wide, but it’s always tough to know if these are real or just perceived
Seems to have better Gmail handling – not failing when you tap on a notification for an email you’d already archived on the desktop
A new icon for AIM
More auto-complete / auto correct entries in the dictionary.
With the slider open, the Center button now turns on the screen, where as before you had to hit a keyboard key or the power button.
It’s a little finicky, but you can double-tap to start text selection in editable fields (note, however, that cursor placement in the Memos app is buggy)