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First, it was only a rumor about the Palm Pre 2 but now all the pieces has been completed with the recent official press release. HP finally decided to made an official commercial for the Palm Pre 2. As we have know the successor of Palm Pre will runs with webOS 2.0.

Not only that, the Palm Pre 2 acquired several necessary applications such as the Angry Birds and of course, Facebook. The ads is pretty straight forward and explanatory so you won’t have any confusion on how the device works. Here’s the official commercial.

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[via BoyGeniusReport]

A week ago we have seen the internal training document leaked regarding Palm Pre 2 arrival to Verizon Wireless in the future. But today, the folks from Droid-Life received some information on it from their sources. They mention the confirmation on the handset heads to Verizon “in the coming months.”

We are expecting the device will be stock in Verizon shelves on November 11th. Palm Pre 2 can be referred as the introduction of webOS 2.0. It also will compliment many new features compared the old Palm. If the informant was right, we have less than a month to wait for its arrival.

[via SlashGear]

While the basic hardware design of the upcoming Palm Pre 2 to remain the same as Palm Pre, Palm Pre 2 will be the first to run the HP/Palm’s webOS 2.0 and has an upgraded 1GHz CPU. The new webOS smartphone will be available first in France from SFR and is scheduled to be available in the coming months in the United States from Verizon Wireless and in Canada.

The Palm Pre 2 also comes with 3.1-inch capacitive touch screen, slide out QWERTY keyboard, 16GB internal memory, 5 megapixel camera and built in GPS / WiFi / Bluetooth. Improved webOS 2.0 will feature “Stacks”, allow you to group related “cards” together for easier task selection.

Other features include:

Just Type – Start an email, create a message, update your status, search your favorite websites – all before you’ve even opened an app.(1) With webOS 2.0, whenever you want to do something on your phone – whether it’s emailing, texting, searching or almost anything – just type. And Just Type is open to developers, so they can integrate with the search function and add their own user-customizable shortcuts, called Quick Actions.

HP Synergy – webOS was the first mobile OS to connect you seamlessly to multiple web services. With the Synergy feature, you just have to sign in to your Facebook, Google, Microsoft® Exchange, LinkedIn and Yahoo! accounts and your information automatically populates your phone.(3) webOS 2.0 will extend the support for Synergy so developers can easily plug new Messaging, Contacts and Calendar application sources directly into the core webOS experiences.(4)

Exhibition – A new way to use your webOS phone, Exhibition lets you run apps designed specifically for the Palm Touchstone Charging Dock, turning charge time into useful time.(4, 5) Set your phone on the dock and Exhibition launches automatically, showing you anything from today’s agenda to a slideshow of your Facebook photos. Exhibition will enable developers to display aspects of their existing app experience or create specialized apps for use when users have their webOS device in charge mode on the charging dock.

Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 Beta – With version 2.0, webOS now supports a beta of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 in the browser, which provides access to rich, Flash based web content.

Favorites – With webOS 2.0, you can tag your favorite contacts so they appear as favorites in Phone and Contacts views. When you search for them by name, they instantly show up at the top of the Contacts, Email, Messaging and Phone apps. Favorites make it simple to get in touch fast.

Skype Mobile™ (Verizon Wireless only) – For Verizon Wireless customers, webOS 2.0 supports Skype-to-Skype calls and messaging while in the United States to anywhere in the world, and low-rate calls to international landlines and cell phones.

Text Assist – webOS 2.0 offers greatly expanded capabilities to spell check, auto correct, set up macros and customize the dictionary.

Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite – An all-new document viewer from the leading provider of mobile document viewers offers support for Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and provides integration with a variety of services, including Google Docs and Dropbox.

Facebook 2.0 – Available via the Palm App Catalog, Facebook 2.0 will support Facebook IM via Synergy in the Messaging application,(4) as well as Stacks, status updates via Quick Action and the Exhibition feature.

Browser – The browser adds support for more HTML5 features, including geolocation support. OpenSearch plugin support makes it easy to add your favorite websites to Just Type web search.

Messaging – The unified Messaging app in webOS 2.0 adds Yahoo! IM and buddy management. Customers can now connect to their buddies through SMS, MMS, Google Talk, AIM and Yahoo! IM.

VPN – webOS 2.0 supports the most popular ways to connect to a corporate network, including IPsec and Cisco AnyConnect mobile optimized VPN, which supports SSL (TLS and DTLS).

App Catalog – The redesigned Palm App Catalog makes finding and discovering great apps even easier.(7) And the new Software Manager helps you keep your apps up-to-date.

Launcher – A redesigned app launcher lets you add, label and reorder launcher pages.

Phone – The webOS 2.0 Phone app lets you easily dial your favorites and offers reverse area code lookup and Skype Mobile integration (Skype Mobile for Verizon Wireless only).

Accounts – The new Accounts app provides a single place to manage all your Synergy accounts.

Bluetooth® keyboards – webOS now supports Bluetooth keyboards and Bluetooth SPP peripherals, enabling applications such as barcode readers and realty lock boxes.

A host of developer features – In addition to Exhibition, Just Type and Synergy APIs, webOS 2.0 adds Node.JS, enabling developers to create services in JavaScript. They also can now use the webOS Plug-In Development Kit (PDK) to combine C/C++ with web technologies in a single app.

The rumors mention that despite HP not planing to buy Palm for their smartphone. Palm kept continuing their creation on the Pre line, and that a Palm Pre 2 will appears very soon. And previously, no release date nor information on the carrier. Fortunately, today we find a hint regarding the carrier. Palm Pre 2 will be heading to Verizon Wireless.

A tipster has given Engadget pictures of what appear to be Verizon training materials for their employees, and it clearly mention the Palm Pre 2. Sadly, we still unable to retained other information on Palm Pre 2. It seems the device might even hit Sprint and AT&T as well as the pervious Palm’s handsets.

[via Engadget]

Thanks to the folks from MobiFrance, now we get to see the Palm Pre 2 first picture. As you can see on the picture, there’s not many changes Palm had. It still equip with a portrait slider with full QWERTY keyboard. Except this time it has flatter screen with defined ridge tracing the four corners.

The handset packed with a 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM. It will runs with webOS 2.0. The release date was predicted to be near November. However, nothing is confirmed yet. At least, we get to see what Palm Pre 2 like.

[via PreCentral / via SlashGear]