It seems that some more details on the capabilities of the newly launched Palm Pre and on its webOS platform have made it into the wild, and among them the fact that the handset can easily run unsigned firmware, a piece of information coming from the iPhone developer Steven Troughton-Smith. A wide range of other things that the handset is capable of have made it into the wild as well, though it seems that some hacking skills are required to be able to access some of them.

A lot of details on the Pre can be found on Pre dev wiki, and one of them is that original NES Nintendo emulation is possible on the device. According to a guy over at the Pre/webOS dev wiki, there are a few steps that need to be followed, a few recompile and configuration instructions, an all will be there on the handset. It all starts with the installation of a native Linux version of the FCEUltra NES emulator from within a Debian chroot, and continues as described here.

At the same time, the Palm Pre seems to hide other functionalities that have not been unveiled just yet, at least not officially, and among them we have a call duration labeling system for the call log, a feature that has been fully developed and installed on the mobile phone, though it seems that it comes disabled right from the start. For what it's worth, it might not come as a surprise if Sprint decided to turn it off on purpose, so that people used more minutes as they didn't have a specific counter to show how much they had left.

Another hidden feature that Palm Pre seems to come to the market with is the capability to add and delete pages in the launcher. Again, this seems to be another feature that has been completely developed and included with the device, though it is rather uncertain why it has been disabled as well. For what it's worth, Palm might prep some further enhancements of the launcher as it was supposed to come along with them, yet these are just suppositions at the moment. More on these features of the Pre, and not only, can be found here.