World-widely popular location-based mobile game Foursquare is now available for Palm Pre. A lot of folks are preferring Gowalla over Foursquare, it’s nice to know that now webOS users do not need to get jealous every time when their iPhone, Android or BlackBerry friends check in at the gym, work or local coffee shop.

Yeah, you could say – hey, I could check in by visiting Foursquare website – but c’mon, really?

We must note that the app is still in beta, and because of that, there are some unfinished stuff there, but you’ll figure that out.

Go download from App Catalogue – webOS Foursquare

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Personally, I’m not too much into customizing anything of mine – I have a defualt theme, wallpaper and sound set on my eyePhone ;) and never had the need nor the wish to change it. The same goes for my PC desktop – only recently I chose to replace the default WinXP theme with Wall-E wallpaper. But people actually like to change their wallpapers, some of them change it a few times in a week, or even more frequently.

This site, called iDesign * Pre is a good resource for you wallpaper addicts. It has a large database of wallpapers made to fit to your Palm Pre, which is updated daily, and everything is packed in simple and nice interface, categorized.

Off course, they are all free. So – if you’d like anime, 3D, flowers or just Megan Fox on your Palm Pre wallpaper – give it a try.

Well, seems that things are getting better for us Europeaniens here – Palm decided to release a GSM version of Palm Pre and distribute it all across the Europe. Well, not all across for now, as it turns out that exclusive operator for Palm Pre will be O2. So, we’re expecting to have Pre’s in Great Britain, Ireland and Germany  – and quite fast – from October 13th!

When it comes to prices, it seems that they won’t be too high, in fact, Pre’s are going to be pretty affordable for anyone who decides to sign up a contract with the O2. In Great Britain, you could get your Pre for 97 pounds (18 months contract) or even for free (24 month contract with some more expensive monthly rates). All rates will include unlimited WiFi access all over GB (The Cloud).

Ireland has some different situation – 99 euros for the device with 18 months contract on 45 euros of monthly rate, or a free device with 100 euros per month rate.

And at last, but not the least – Germany – whose O2 will offer unlocked Palm Pre device (price still unknown). This is probably the most interesting option for us, since there aren’t any news on any other mobile operator, or countries that don’t have a local O2 office.

But nevertheless, we sure hope to get one device for our selves, so we can drool on it all day long ;)

GSM version of Palm Pre has been caught on tape in Vietnam, or so the “sources” say. There will be a short video after the break so keep reading. This probably means that the GSM version of Palm Pre after it has been spoted several times, first in Barcelona in February, then earlier today in London is getting nearer and nearer to its launch. The video below shows few Vietnamese gadget lovers fiddling with the GSM version (confirmed) of Palm Pre. Is it really true we dont know but we hope (for Palm`s sake) that they will launch it really really soon. Palm Pre has a great chance to become a hit in markets that are huge and liberal like India, Arab countries,Japan and the old continent naturally. That markets are almost exclusivelly GSM/UMTS based. Chech out the video below.

In the past month there has been over 700.000 aplication downloads from the Palm Pre App Catalog, or so it has been claimed by Medialets. It si surely not as impressive as iPhone`s one billion downloaded aplications but if you consider that there are only 30 available applications in the App catalog so far… it is quite impressive. And as you can see from the graph there is no sing of slowing down. It might be a bit early to predict or conclude anything but it is surely a sign of healthy interest and possibly a sign for all the developers that the App Catalog can and will be as interesting as Apple AppStore.

Here it is boys n` gals, after months of anticipation, exhausted by rumors it is offical. Palm Pre will be available on June 6th, Spint has just released a press release. All you european Palm lovers before you get too excited, there is a bit of bad news. Palm Pre will be selling only in the US for the time being, and there is no info on the EU launch at this moment. This is pretty dissapointing that Palm decided to take this path. We are still hoping that they will at least give us a rough estimate.

So Palm pre will go for 199$ (after a mail in rebate and a two year contract with Sprint), we are guessing CDMA/EVDO version with a special “Palm Pre only” plan with data & messaging included. It will be available at Sprint, Best Buy, Radio Shack and some Wall-Mart locations. Optional TouchStone inductive charger will be 69,99$ (charger + back plate)

The launch date is on collision course with WWDC and possibly new iPhone demo, so we guess people at Palm calcualted their ods pretty carefully and decided to go for the prize :) . Since we are euro centric Palm Pre blog we will be on the lookout for any kind of info on the EU launch date so stay with us.

Palm announced “Real reviewer” program just a few weeks ago, for all the social media sites out there. They hope to gain some widespread “organic” credibility troughout the web with it. It is the first time that Palm has opened tis kind of activities to non professionals. it has allways been out there for pro journalists but this time they are counting on bloggers, online journalists and reviewers to get the word on the Pre out.
And we must admit that this tactic is just brilliant, if you are a twitter/friendfeed/facebook user with a large flock of followers (let`s say 5000+) you are an ideal candidate for the “organic reviewer” position. So if you get lucky you`ll get one Palm pre for 6 months to dissect and describe from every existing angle.

So the main story here is a rumor that “real reviewer” program is launching this week, and all who applied and entered will be recieving their copy by the middle of the week. So prepare for buzz whirlpool of Palm pre sightings and news during the upcoming weeks. And it was about time.

Hold on to your hats Palm lovers it seems that we are in motion. Palm has updated some of the regional pages and most of them are showing Palm Pre “pre launch” promo.

The update on Palm’s International page shows Palm Pre is coming to most of Europe ( France, UK, Italy, Germany, Spain and Netherlands), Asia (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Singapore and the Phillipines) Australia, New Zeland and Venezuela in Latin America.

Unfortunately there are no details on the carriers or the launch date but there is definately something going on. I dont know about you but this sounds like an “silent announchement” on wich countries will be launcing Palm Pre first. Finally some “real” news, we are keeping our fingeres crossed.

It seems that Palm has succesfully mimicked the Apple strategy for initial release of the iPhone. The idea is to announce and heavily demo and show off the device’s capabilities months before the actual launch. Hence the quantity of videos and clips around the web teasing and building up the buzz. That will create the perfect climate for a spectacular launch, hopefully comparable to the one iPhone had.

Now that the WMC is over we can sit back and hand pick the quality material from the conference. So without further ado take a look at the 26 minute demo that will bring you closer to all the fine details of the WebOS and the Palm Pre (via Precommunity)

As you can see the Synergy is working flawlessly and the Calendar function in the new Palm Pre will be as beautiful as it is useful.
Check out the Palm Pre Calendar Gallery ( via Precommunity )

Awesome guys from the PreCommunity.com revealed something pretty interesting. While there was no official presentation or even a mention of a GSM version of Palm Pre, there are a few ones running around Palm’s booth in Barcelona. And guess what, the rumors are true, Vodafone will probably be exclusive carrier for Palm Pre in Europe. You can say that that there is no real evidence here but I think we need nothing more. The only thing we can hope for now is that Palm hits a deal with Vodafone FAST and announces it for 2009 :).

Check out the video that revealed the whole “story” (via PreCommunity)