Pre and webOS: Meet Europe, O’Reilly, and Flash

Brace yourself: We've got the biggest blast of updates about Pre and webOS since they were unveiled in January. It's the dawn of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the largest exhibition for the mobile industry, and we've got lots of news to share.

For starters, we're showing off the European UMTS version of the Pre for the first time at MWC. Palm's Lynn Fox pinged us to say that “I don't know which is more over-the-top -- the Gaudi architecture in this town, the menus at the tapas bars, or the excitement that the European market is showing for the Pre.”

And here are a few more updates that should interest you regardless of what country you plan to use your Pre in:

• O'Reilly Media will be publishing a book about developing for Palm's new mobile platform. Written by Palm VP and Software CTO Mitch Allen and his development team, the book -- titled “Palm webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo Framework” -- is the first official resource for programming webOS. The first chapter of the book is available on the Palm Developer Network site. You'll also be able to sign up to get new chapters as they're written through O'Reilly's “Rough Cuts” service, and the complete book will be published upon release of the Mojo SDK.
   
• Mitch Allen will also present a free webcast for developers on February 25 at 10 a.m. PT offering a rare preview of the webOS operating system and development environment, followed by a Q&A session.
   
• Palm is joining the Open Screen Project, to help deliver the benefits of Adobe’s Flash Player to the webOS experience. This will offer a richer and more complete Internet experience on webOS-based devices, such as the Pre.
   
• There's also a brand new video on Palm.com that gives you a peek at a typical day with your Pre.

Stay tuned for more updates from Barcelona -- here on the blog or follow palm_inc on Twitter.

Jon Zilber

Comments

[pixie]

i am afraid with nails the top row of keys is going to be hard to reach, and it doesnt look like the girl in the first video was using her nails ..

i am going to just be devastated if i cant use this phone because of my nails :(

[Charles ernst]

Flash player in WebOS will be key to beating the iPad and iPhone. When will it be avail on palm pre?