Sprint has begun rolling out the long awaited webOS 1.3.5 update for the Palm Pre in order to address issues and adds small changes such as improved MMS compatibility, improved battery life in marginal coverage areas and reduced update size to allow downloads and updates over 1xRTT data connections.
Update: The update is now live and being deployed across devices as of 1 hour ago on the West Coast with Palm releasing an extensive changelog found below. As expected, the update does eliminate the application storage restrictions in previous versions as well as adding pause and resume functionality for downloads.
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.
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You claimed the the update has “begun rolling out” but as of yet there have been no reports of the update being released. This has happen before with sprint in terms of them releasing their changlog and not releasing the update, especially if you look at the release notes for the pixi which claims 1.3.2 will be released today which happens to have been released on 12/2/09, but to willingly claim that the update has been released with no reports of it is just plain lies. i am very disappointed in phonenews.com this time
You’re jumping the gun and being needlessly myopic about the report. If you want someone to blame for the lack of an update, blame Sprint and Palm for their availability timeframe. Shooting the messenger does no one any good.
http://support.sprintpcs.com/support/article/Find_and_update_the_software_version_on_your_Palm_Pre/case-ye186054-20090813-151310
Click the link…
that’s a nice link in all but even palm themselves ( you know the maker of the phone) still hasn’t even acknoledge that the updat has been released. All I’m saying is they claime that the update was released with no update being released
1.3.5 now
takes about 20 min., but 1.3.5. Is worth it!
After the 1.3.5 update, I noticed the “Beta” banner is gone from the App Catalog. Finally out of “Beta”?
ugh I thought this update was gunna have flash…I want flash
Yes, the App Catalog is now formally out of beta.
my update came up on my screen today for the update! nice feature that you are notified!