WebOS 1.4 to Be Released Come February 15

The owners of a Palm Pre or Palm Pixi mobile phone, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus included, should soon have a great reason to rejoice, as the long announced webOS 1.4 platform version is now said to be only a few days away. February 15 should be the release date for the new version of Palm's webOS mobile platform, at least when it comes to mobile phone maker's plans.

According to a recent article on PreCentral, “an email detailing future OS upgrades,” that was posted by one of their forum members not too long ago, shows that Palm plans on delivering the new webOS 1.4 as soon as Monday is here. However, the news site notes that this is not the day when users will receive the software update too, for it has to get through Sprint and Verizon first, and will be delivered to handsets only afterwards.

Some of you might have already learned that Sprint also announced that the new OS flavor was set to arrive for its Palm Pre and Pixi users in the second quarter of the ongoing year, and that the carrier already unveiled some details on what would be included in the upcoming firmware. February 15 fits very well within that “first quarter” time frame Sprint announced, and might pan out in the end, unless there are delays caused by the carriers.

This is not the first time that we learn that the webOS 1.4 update is set to land during the ongoing month, and Palm might very well announce additional info on it at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. And there will be a nice range of enhancements set to come to Palm's handsets as soon as webOS 1.4 is released for them, some of you might know by now, including that Adobe Flash Player 10 for Pre, which will land for other smartphone OSes on the market only later in the first half of the ongoing year.