It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another Palm Press, our weekly look at the world of Palm. The big Palm press event during the CES last week was full of pomp and flair, although minus the huge excitement from a year earlier when the Pre was first announced. Palm confirmed the two new model refreshes in the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus. The two new phones will be improved versions of the original, the only real surprise being they will be exclusive to the Verizon network in the U.S., something Sprint must not be too happy about.
A new webOS update, 1.3.5.2, was quietly released for the Pre in Germany, and if reports are accurate this update enables tethering the phone to a laptop. The tethering works over Bluetooth, a good wireless method for connecting two devices. It doesn’t appear to make any other changes, but tethering itself is worthy of an update. Let’s hope Pres all over get the tethering update, but I’ll bet carriers have a thing to say about that.
Smartphone owners can attest to the difficulty in keeping informed about new apps hitting any app store, and the Palm App Catalog is no exception. But tracking new additions just got a lot easier with the RSS feeds that Palm has enabled. You can track new additions to the Catalog, or just updates. Now if we could only get more apps in the Catalog to track.

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