Day: April 1, 2010

“Palm has begun to push out a new webOS build to European Palm Pre users today. webOS 1.4.1 most significant contribution brings support for paid applications in the Palm App Catalog outside of the US. European users should now be able to access and purchase a wider variety of applications. The update also includes a number of minor changes (posted after the break), which are detailed in the release notes at Palm support. Also with this update, users on O2 Germany (and possibly other carriers) can now download and use the Palm mobile hotspot application.
Update: The update (listed as webOS 1.4.1.1) is now available for Sprint devices via the on device updates application as well.
Feature changes to existing applications
App Catalog
* You can now purchase and download apps that are for sale, in addition to downloading free apps.
Bluetooth
* This release fixes an issue so that the phone now correctly connects with supported BMW car kits.
Camera
* This release corrects a lag in the shutter sound when you take a picture.
* This release fixes an issue so that newly taken photos and videos do not overwrite existing ones.
Contacts
* If you crop a picture before adding it to a contact, the picture appears cropped correctly in the contact entry.
* If you previously assigned either the Z or the B key as a speed dial, you can now continue to create speed dials.
Doc View
* If you open a file and perform the back gesture, the app now returns to the file list screen.
* Pinching in/out to zoom out/in now works correctly.
Messaging
* If you try to attach a video to an outgoing multimedia
message, the list of available videos now displays only videos you recorded.
PDF View
* If you open a file and perform the back gesture, the app now returns to the file list screen.
* Pinching in/out to zoom out/in now works correctly.
System
* This release fixes an intermittent issue so that the volume slider no longer appears onscreen incorrectly.
* This release fixes an intermittent issue so that after the screen more reliably turns on after a single press of the power button.
Touchstone charging dock
* When the phone is on a Touchstone charging dock, the screen now consistently turns off correctly (displaying the lock icon and the time) after the shut-off interval.
Videos
* If you record a video, upload the video to YouTube, and send a link to the video via email, the email recipient can click the link and view the video. Previously, clicking the link displayed an error message.
* This release fixes an issue so that when you upload a video to YouTube, the file always includes both video and audio.
Web
* The forward gesture now works correctly in the browser.