14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone maker Palm is set to make its webOS 2.0 operating system flavor available for all of its handsets on the market at the moment, the company confirmed officially recently.
Palm's Josh Marinacci was the one to announce the move, stating that webOS 2.0 should be released for existing webOS handsets within the following few months.
Unfortunately, no specific info on when the software update should be released emerged for the time being, but the good news is that all of the existing devices will receive it.
According to Palm, it intends to release the software solution for all Palm Pre, Pre Plus, Pixi and Pixi Plus mobile phones in user's hands at the moment. More on this in the video embedded at the bottom of this article.
What's interesting to note here is that the announcement comes shortly after some of the company's devices started to disappear from shelves at wireless carriers in various markets around the world.
In all fairness, this move was said to have been related to the release of Palm Pre 2 on the market, which packs enhanced hardware components, and which can deliver an improved end-user experience.
With webOS 2.0, existing Palm devices should enjoy a nice range of new, appealing features on their devices, though it remains to be seen how well would these handsets, with their older hardware, offer support for the new mobile OS.
Some of the main features of the new platform version include true multitasking, the Just Type function, support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta, new messaging and social networking applications, and more.
Developers were not left outside either, and some new functionalities are available for them too, all of which were included in the webOS 2.0 SDK, accessible for those who joined the Early Access Program.
As the guys over at PreCentral note, Palm seems set to offer the same platform on all of its devices, in an attempt to avoid fragmentation, which sounds like a great thing for end-users, that's for sure. Keep an eye on this space to learn more on when the new webOS 2.0 platform lands on older Palm devices.