The App Catalog has been live in various forms for a little over a year now, and Palm has continued to add both features and applications during that time it’s gone from a measly handful of offerings to a marketplace offering over 3,000 applications, including immersive 3D titles like NOVA and Need for Speed, and the inbuilt search algorithms and overall app discovery have improved considerably.
But even with these accomplishments, Palm’s online marketplace lags behind competing offerings – namely the Android Market and the App Store - in certain key areas and needs to rapidly add functionality to bring it up to par. We’ve caught a glimpse or two of where the App Catalog may be going, and here are three features we think Palm should be sure to implement in the next version. What features would you like to see?
Since launch day, every Palm Pre and Pixi on Sprint has come with a little app that launches into a custom Sprint portal with news and links to information about your account. It looks as if Bell is going to follow the same route, though their app will be of the optional App Catalog variety. As reported over at