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This week we cover all things Pre!

Gizmodo has us covered with what everybody's saying about the Palm Pre.

This week on the 1SRC Podcast, we cover all of the latest Pre and Palm webOS news as we head toward Pre's launch next week.

The complete review is now out.

The Boy Genius gets a Palm Pre.

More details surface in the form of a leaked Sprint Pre launch guide.

Sprint has announced today that the Palm Pre will be available on June 6.

This week we cover the latest Palm rumors: Pre pricing, the Eos smartphone, and the possibility of Foleo II.

Pre abuse? Blurry photos? Smack talk from AT&T? Yep, we've got it all on this week's 1SRC Podcast!

[From Eric Mann] It looks like iPhone multitasking could be coming this Summer. "Apple this summer will go a long way towards silencing critics and catering to one of the most prevalent demands of its iPhone user base, when it... sam mcloughln Sammual James - McLoughlin - Editor in Chief / Publisher, UK & NYC

[From Silvia] Received this email from the guys at Handycase and if you can help then send an email to their tech manager, Fabio handcase@handycase.com "We would like your help. We are preparing the Gune launcher for WebOS and need... sam mcloughln Sammual James - McLoughlin - Editor in Chief / Publisher, UK & NYC

Wallmart has dramatically lowered its price on a new Palm Pre Plus this week. Online bargain hunters can now find the updated version of the Palm Pre on Verizon for $29.99 after the usual rebates and contract commitments.

Wallmart.com started offering the Pre Plus for only $29 after rebates yesterday. The site also offers a free Pixi Plus (after rebates) as well. Amazon.com has also lowered its intro prices on Palm devices as well, where a Pre Plus can currently be found for $39.99 with a new 2-year service plan.

For those of you with Palm OS devices you may wish to take a look at the excellent MySportTraining for Palm. It's reduced by $4. It was $19.95 and is reduced to $15.96. Use the promo-code TOOLS20 at checkout to... sam mcloughln Sammual James - McLoughlin - Editor in Chief / Publisher, UK & NYC

comScore, Inc. has released its latest data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month period between October 2009 and January 2010. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers age 13 and older, as well as popular activities and content accessed via the subscriber's primary mobile phone.

The January report found Motorola to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 22.9 percent market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 43.0 percent market share. During the period Palm Inc. dropped 2.1 percentage points to settle down at 5.7% of the US mobile market.

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At the annual Game Developers Conference this week, Palm and Epic Games are demonstrating Unreal Engine 3 on Palm webOS. Unreal Engine 3 powers Epic's popular Unreal Tournament 3 and Gears of War along with many other titles from leading game developers. Licensees of Unreal Engine 3 will soon be able to build games for Palm webOS. 

Earlier this week, Palm announced the public availability of the beta release of the Plug-in Development Kit [PDK] for developers seeking to expand their options for creating apps for Palm webOS phones. Together, the PDK and the Unreal Engine 3 will make it even easier for developers to bring visually rich games to Palm webOS phones. 

Developers can download Unreal Engine 3 for free here. More information about Palm's PDK can be found here.

Jon Zilber

Several analysts say Palm Inc. might not remain an independent phone maker for more than a year or two.

Electrum Dominoes for Palm OS looks like being a pretty cool game. Electrum Dominoes is a variation of All Fives, using a 28-piece set consisting of one bone with each possible combination of pips from 0-0 through 6-6. All Fives... sam mcloughln Sammual James - McLoughlin - Editor in Chief / Publisher, UK & NYC

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