Hasta La Gadget!

If there’s anything better than a holiday gift, it’s a late holiday gift, one that you can thank the FedEx guy for, open up and play happily with, away from the derisive stares and interruptions of family members (“Huh! Aren’t you a bit old for __?”).

So today brings extra joy for Palm Pre owners, wherever you may be, in the form of a wireless update to your phone’s firmware. V1.3.5 is somewhat sparsely detailed on Sprint’s support pages, and will bring the following goodies:

• Improvement in battery life optimization when in marginal coverage areas.
• QCELP capability fix to allow play and audio of video sent via MMS.
• Launch Google Maps or Sprint Nav when tapping an address from contacts.
• Minimized package of MR size through binary difference. Customers can now download over 2G connections if necessary.

Right now, there are no details on Palm’s support pages or blog, but Sprint lists the release date as today, December 28th. When Palm’s release notes go live, we should have more information (Palm puts a lot more detail into these things). We are, though, expecting an altogether faster experience, and a removal (or at least an increase) of the arbitrary limit on storage space for applications.

Palm support [Sprint]

Palm Pre Support [Palm]

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