Palm Press: the Pixi Dust has been Sprinkled; WebOS 1.3 Coming; Flash 10.1 Next Year

palm-pressIt is Thursday and that means it’s time for another Palm Press. Palm Press is our weekly look at the world of Palm. Palm is poised to launch the Pixi and reviews are appearing all over the web with looks at the newest member of the webOS family. The Pixi has a candy-bar form and most reviewers agree it is a good phone with a nice keyboard, although a little slow in the performance department. The screen is a bit smaller than that on the Pre, and with only a $50 with Sprint separating the two phones, you might want to think long and hard about picking up the Pixi.

Palm has done a good job updating webOS, although a company can never do that fast enough to keep owners satisfied. We’ve only been sitting at version 1.2.x for a short while but a sharp-eyed observer noticed something about the Pixi that indicates version 1.3.1 will be out in time for the Nov. 15 launch. A video of the Pixi posted on YouTube shows the status screen and it clearly notes that the version of webOS on the Pixi is 1.3.1. It also indicates the “configuration” is Sprint 2.0, whatever that means. If the Pixi is launching with a new version of webOS, it only makes sense that Pre owners might find an update in the next few days.

We’ve known that Flash 10.1 will be coming to webOS, but we know for sure it will be in the first half of next year. Pre users who click on a flash video link get an official message from Adobe that the “Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is coming to Palm WebOS in the first half of 2010.” Flash 10.1 is the anticipated update that will enable viewing videos in the web browser.

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