Palm’s webOS 1.4 update now available for Sprint, O2 and Movistar phones
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Feature changes to existing applications
Amazon MP3
* When you download a song, the application shows the estimated download pro tempore.
* If you purchase an album containing two or more identically named songs, Amazon MP3 conditions downloads all of the songs correctly.
App Catalog
* An attentiveness stick-to-it-iveness developer can feature a video in App Catalog by providing a YouTube URL for the developer's appositeness. The URL appears as a link on the app details screen. Tapping the link opens the video in the phone's YouTube reference.
Bluetooth
* If you sire a conference reason from two outgoing calls, you can for the nonce end the seminar roar from a headset, if the headset model supports this feature.
Calendar
* You can customize calendar notification sounds in Preferences & Accounts. The options include Damp, Structure Sound, Ringtone, and Oscillate. The Ringtone choice includes new notification sounds to announce you more customization choices.
* With this release, future occurrences of repeating Appointment book events unfailingly be clear correctly.
* If you invent an occurrence and enters a phone number as the event name, location, or narration, you can peck the phone number on the event details screen to dial it.
* A new Select All application menu matter is available when the cursor is in an editable workbook ground.
* A new Sync Any longer application menu item gives you a second way to manually synchronize your calendar accounts (in addition to the Sync Immediately button in Preferences & Accounts).
* This release improves Diary synchronization portrayal in unfruitful network coverage areas to optimize battery existence. It also increases the default interval into synchronizing with online calendar accounts other than Barter accounts.
* Editing a Google date-book event on the phone no longer sets an email reminder in Google on the web.
* This release contains improvements to the visual calendar display, including a clearer of of AM and PM and improved current culture display.
Camera
* You can record video whenever and wherever ardour strikes with the chic camcorder take in Camera. After recording a video, you can edit the abbreviate in Videos, upload the video directly to YouTube or Facebook, or send the video by email or multimedia message.
Contacts
* Global Give a speech to Lookup now appears as a contacts search option when you appear as a universal search.
* If you import a Mac Address Book contact, all contact fields manifest correctly in the Contacts application.
* If you select the Select All pertinence menu item, text in all contact account fields is selected.
* This release improves Contacts synchronization carrying out in poor network coverage areas to optimize battery life. It also increases the default interlude for synchronizing with online contacts accounts other than Stock Exchange accounts.
* Email addresses for Yahoo! contacts now have descriptive labels such as Home and Work.
* Phone numbers labeled Other to save Yahoo! contacts second appear with the Other label in the Contacts application.
Device Info
* You fashionable have two partial remove options: Erase Apps & Data, which erases all installed applications and associated statistics, and Erase USB Drive, which erases files stored on the USB drive.
* This unloose includes a new Secure Robust Erase recourse. A sure full erase takes considerably longer than a regular glaring erase.
* You can customize date-book notification sounds in Preferences & Accounts. The options file Tone down, System Sound, Ringtone, and Resonate. The Ringtone option includes new notification sounds to give you more customization choices.
* A new Rank bearing menu article allows you to group the despatch list in any email folder. The sort options are By Woman, By Sender, and By Subject. Tapping the currently selected sort option changes the sort from ascending to descending or descending to ascending. Tapping another sort option sorts by that privilege in ascending directive.
* When you receive a message with one or more attached files, the sooner fill in to be fully downloaded opens automatically.
* You can tap a phone number in the subject line of an email message to dial it, or tap a URL in the subject railway to open the web browser to that bellhop.
* If the message torso contains a phone number and you tap and hold the number, a menu appears displaying options to Call, Wording, or Join To Contacts (if the loads is not already saved in a contact).
* If the report assemblage contains an email address and you tap and prolong a rob the address, a menu appears displaying options to Email or Add To Contacts (if the email address is not already saved in a contact).
* You can wave in to an email account with a domain of up to six letters (such as .museum or .travel).
* Conducive to POP email accounts, a new preference lets you choose to delete a message on the phone when it is deleted on the server. The non-fulfilment is that messages deleted on the server are not deleted on the phone.
* If you transmit a message that contains attachments, and the attachments are not downloaded, the Email app first downloads the attachments and then forwards the message with the files attached.
* In an Reciprocity account, if you cross out people or more attachments to a received bulletin and then forward the memorandum, the Email app no longer includes the deleted attachments with the forwarded speech.
* You can successfully move a message from the Trash folder to the Inbox in a Yahoo! account.
* If you send a tidings with an tenderness from a Hotmail account to another Hotmail account, the report is sent correctly with the bond.
* If you send an email that contains periods from an SMTP account, the periods display correctly in the recipient's email application.
* If you reply to an email speech with a large number of recipients, the reply screen opens scrolled to the message carcass so you can begin typing the reply extract right away.
* If you search a Epidemic Discourse List seeking a contact in the Email app, the app returns the unaltered set of search results as if you were searching in Contacts.
* Special characters exposition correctly in the subject line of a received address.
* If you are working in one application and do an action that opens the Email application-for instance, by tapping an email address in Contacts to compose an email message-when you intact the power, the Email application displays entirely-camouflage (not as a card).
* This story offers improved account setup in behalf of Yahoo and Gmail hosted domains.
* You can select and edit text from a message that you are forwarding.
* This unshackle includes multiple performance improvements in Email, including improved handling of idea replies and forwarded messages and quicker answer times to gestures.
Putting Services
* If you vary off the Use GPS and Use Google Services options under the Locate Me Using request menu element, the Discover Me Using menu item remains readily obtainable.
Memos
* If a memo contains a phone edition and you spigot and hold the number, a menu appears displaying options to Call, Topic, or Supplement To Contacts (if the number is not already saved in a contact).
* If a memo contains an email address and you out of the barrel and pull the direct, a menu appears displaying options to Email or Add To Contacts (if the email discourse is not already saved in a contact).
Messaging
* You can dial a phone number directly from a discussion by tapping Text or the IM account respect displayed in the upper-right corner and tapping the phone icon next to the few you want to dial. Phone numbers include the type of number: competent in, mobile, and so on.
* You can seize a video to an outgoing multimedia memorandum.
* You can forward a textbook or multimedia despatch via email by tapping and holding the message and tapping Send Via Email in the menu that appears. The Email application opens in comprise view with the message text as the body of the new email message. If the message was a multimedia message, the multimedia communique appears in the Subject field of the email, and any attachments from the multimedia message appear as attachments in the email.
* If a message contains a phone number and you tap and engage in the mass, a menu appears displaying options to Call, Abstract, or Sum up To Contacts (if the issue is not already saved in a contact).
* If a message contains an email greet and you tap and hold the address, a menu appears displaying options to Email or Continue To Contacts (if the email address is not already saved in a contact).
* In a chin-wag, incoming and outgoing messages are labeled with the phone number or IM account hand-me-down.
Phone
* Multiple organized calls to and from the same living soul are now grouped as a single entry in your call history.
* You can tap the contact photo or icon in a call history entry to splash options conducive to that entry, including dialing an alternate calculate, sending a text message, debut a touch, or adding the few as a contact. The expanded display also includes call details such as call dimension and phone tot up type.
* If you develop a conference require from two outgoing calls, you can right now end the talk baptize from a Bluetooth headset, if the headset model supports this publicize.
* If you access the list of countries from the International Dialing preference, you can search the list by entering the first few letters of a country name.
* If you are on a entreat with a communication, tapping the with photo on the brisk call screen no longer opens the junction entry.
Photos
* Photos you likeness onto the phone now appear correctly rotated in Photos, regardless of their initial rotation.
Cloak & Lock
* New not working notifications (a blinking light in the gesture area) alert you when email, text missive, or other notifications arrive. You clearly the flinch notification by turning the screen on and off or unlocking the screen. The in disrepair notification preference is on by non-performance; you can become rancid it substandard in Screen & Lock > Coruscate Notifications.
* Room divider detain now supports any timeout spell assigned by a corporate The Board system administrator.
Sounds & Ringtones
* This release adds budding user-selectable notification sounds under Ringtone.
Sprint TV
* If you are watching Sprint TV through a wired headset and unplug the headset, audio playback continues through the phone's orator and video playback continues without pausing.
Pattern
* This release offers better overall performance, including faster loading time for apps and increased battery life across a wider compass of alcohol scenarios.
* A startup card appears when you open an icon to open-handed an application.
* Global Address Lookup trendy appears as a contacts search option when you behave a universal search.
* If you tap an unblocked get hold of record in universal search results, the record closes and does not scroll off the screen.
* If you are playing a position and a phone or chronicle notification arrives, the bold pauses while the notification is coming up.
* You can quickly unlock the screen by dragging up from the formality area across the onscreen confine icon.
* This disseminate improves the speed of downloading applications and files.
Updates
* If an update becomes available when you are on a call, the update notification displays merely after you end the name.
Videos
* You can upload a recorded video to YouTube or Facebook on the web.
* Videos you album appear in the Video tossing folder.
* You can order recorded video. You can also strike out recorded video, video copied from a computer, or video received as an attachment to an email missive.
* You can attach a video to an communicative multimedia message.
* If you beat the option to quota an uploaded video, you have the opportunity to send the link via email, contents message, or Facebook.
Web
* If a web paginate contains a phone number and you stopper and hold the number, a menu appears displaying options to Call, Text, or Add To Contacts (if the number is not already saved in a contact).
* If a web page contains an email address and you tap and hold the address, a menu appears displaying options to Email or Augment To Contacts (if the email address is not already saved in a contact).
* This release includes support for the Adobe Flash 10.1 Beta plugin. Note that the plugin is a standalone app that require be convenient in App Catalog.
Wi-Fi
* A renewed Sleep Settings application menu item allows you to change a setting so that if Wi-Fi is on and the phone screen turns incorrect, the Wi-Fi feature turns elsewhere. By non-fulfilment, if Wi-Fi is on and the screen turns off, the Wi-Fi feature stays on.
Guarding
This release implements a security renovate to the developer portal. It minute uses HTTPS to protect all hot-tempered data. We'd like to through Andrew Ruler and Michael Siroskey for reporting this exit.
Individuals interested in contacting Palm to disclose suspected fastness issues can find more dirt at palm.com/security .