It’s been a long road to getting webOS 1.4.5 on all the webOS devices available in the US, but the AT&T Pixi Plus is receiving the update now, as AllTec tips and jonsmith89 reports in our forums. webOS 1.4.5, if you didn’t know, brings the ability to download a much larger number of 3D games along with several other minor fixes. Palm’s release notes for webOS 1.4.5 show there’s not much beyond the PDK app compatibility:

System
This release includes minor fixes and enhancements to support the public release of the webOS PDK.

Web
If a user enters text in a field on certain websites, the screen focus now remains on the text being entered.
This release fixes a rare problem so that podcasts now download correctly.

Security
This release addresses several security issues with the Palm webOS software.

By our reckoning this only leaves Telcel in Mexico lacking the latest version of webOS. With luck, it will come soon.

Meanwhile, AT&T Pixi users – what’s the first game you’ll download on your newly updated Pixi?

Thanks AllTec and jonsmith89!

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Our masked defender, the ReleaseMyPre guy, has heard your cries! For far too long, the countless Verizon and AT&T Palm Pre Plus users have been without webOS 1.4.5.  It’s the webOS update that feels just out of grasp for people on those carriers.

As the above video shows, the ReleaseMyPre guy has taken up the cause. The earlier 79-hour notice to Palm has been given a pass until Monday. What’s more, he’s planning a twitter protest to get the point across that every device deserves webOS 1.4.5.

So here are the specifics. On this upcoming Monday September 13th, at 3pm EST, simply tweet to both @VZWSupport and @ATTCustomerCare. Oh, and be sure to include the #releasemy145 hashtag.

Source: Twitter

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Palm’s webOS 1.4.5 update hasn’t exactly had the smoothest of rollouts – arriving in Europe and Canada on July 14th, Sprint on August 11th, and the Verizon Pixi Plus on August 31st - not to mention that pesky bug that breaks some games. Meanwhile, Verizon Pre Plus and AT&T users are standing by, unable to get their Angry Birds on.

Well, Shad emailed us (and others) to let us know that somebody from Verizon corporate is telling him the update should hit in about two weeks. We’ve heard plenty of empty promises from mid and high-level carrier employees before, though. However rwinger in our forums points out that Verizon’s very own OTA Update Information page for the Palm Pre Plus sports screenshots showing 1.4.5.

We can’t have much longer to wait now, can we? This rollout stands in stark contrast to previous webOS updates that managed to hit multiple carriers in multiple countries in fairly short order. The delayed rollout on Verizon and AT&T also seems to be putting a damper on the PDK Hot Apps $1 million giveaway – if folks can’t install the apps, it makes it quite a bit harder to generate buzz for the latest and greatest – only 20 days left in that contest.

Update: Shad points us to this PDF on Verizon’s support site that indicates updates for 1.4.5:

webOS 1.4.5 Build 171 update includes numerous enhancements. [...]

+ Better Mobile Hotspot connectivity
- Your Palm Pre Plus can easily connect through the Mobile Hotspot application even when using Windows Vista® 64-bit with Windows LiveTM OneCare.

+ Better Web functionality
- Preview all ringtones on the Verizon Mobile Web 3.0 site.

+ Overall improved battery performance

Thanks, Shad and cantaffordit!

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Sprint webOS users: you may want to hold off on the repeated tapping of the refresh button in the Updates app that ensues before an update for at least a little while, as presumed Sprint employee and P|C forum member leprecub has it on good authority that webOS version 1.4.5.1 will be hitting Sprint on the 7th – a few days later than some of the European carriers, but in plenty of time before the upcoming PDK Hot Apps competition, which begins on the 15th that’ll dole out a cool $1 million to C/C++ developers.

In addition to the change log we’ve already seen on Palm’s own website, leprecub has a few more details on what to expect beyond the ability to deploy PDK apps on the Pixi that include always welcome power consumption and battery optimization enhancements amongst others:

Palm Pre Software Update to webOS 1.4.5.1
Customers: Palm Pre Users
Effective Date: 7/7/10

This should update your Sprint configuation to 2.5.

Details: A software update is available for the Palm Pre on 07/07/2010.
Fixes, Feature Updates and Enhancements

• Web: Podcasts now download correctly. 
• Web: text entry can now be entered correctly 
• Email: Sprint branded default email signature correctly branded 
• Power consumption / battery optimization 
• Videos: A user can now send a video via multimedia messaging from the Video application 
• Video: the video trim feature now works to send in a message. 
• Sprint TV: Upgrade to V 3.5.4 
• Sprint TV: Enhanced Parental controls 

Source: PreCentral forums, thanks to everyone who sent this in!

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