So, you want to know if the Pre and Pre Plus can really handle 3D gaming with aplomb, but don’t feel like forking over the cash to find out for sure? Gameloft has an answer for you, and it comes in the form of a demo version of the excellent racing game Asphalt 5. Available for free from the App Catalog, Asphalt 5 Free gives you a few minutes of play on a full functional track. Weighing in at nearly 66 MB, you can be sure you’re getting a full experience, though it is still limited to a few minutes with no save functionality. And of course, if you like what you see, Asphalt 5 Free comes with a link straight to the App Catalog where you can part with $6.99 (plus applicable taxes) for the full game.

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We’ve known since February that webOS and Palm Pre would be getting Adobe Flash by the end of 2009. Well, it’s October and although we’ve heard things we still on track, the lack of news certainly did seem a bit troubling… until today.

Today Adobe made their big Flash Player 10.1 announcement, mostly confirming what we already knew:

Adobe Systems Incorporated today unveiled Adobe Flash Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices, allowing content created using the Adobe Flash Platform to reach users wherever they are. A public developer beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows® Mobile, Palm® webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and Linux later this year.

Certainly encouraging talk there; it’s nice to see webOS mentioned specifically. What’s even more interesting is the press release then continues going on, mentioning how Flash 10.1 is able to utilize the GPU for better performance.  Whether that means this means the webOS version will use the GPU is not mentioned, but that’d certainly be a good way to make flash less CPU-intensive.

In addition, Adobe has posted a video demonstration of Flash 10.1 on the Pre.   It’s definitely worth a watch.  Seems to support webOS pretty well.  We previously heard device orientation and multi-touch is supported, but now we know Flash is integrated to save its state before switching to card view, saving processing power (and thus battery power) and giving an overall better user experience.

Although this demonstration only showed pretty basic examples of flash usage, it’s still pretty exciting and could have far reaching future implications. If flash were done successfully, with GPU support, it certainly wouldn’t be too difficult to make flash-based webOS apps.

Also, if you’re a developer and want to be notified by email when the public beta of Flash 10.1 is ready for the webOS, Adobe has set up a form here.

So who wants to start the release date guessing?

Thanks to everyone that sent this in!

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If you’re like me, you’re already watching all of the walk through videos posted on YouTube of the Palm Pre. To make it easy, I’ve decided to embed all of the videos into a centralized location for your learning and viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

PDF Viewer
Phone
Email
Universal Search
Calendar
Google Maps
Phone Settings
Contacts
Settings
YouTube Application
Messaging
Copy and Paste
Palm Profile and Backup
Organize Your Icons
Memos
Okay [...]

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This is a pleasant surprise. Universal Search on the Palm Pre will allow for Twitter search. This will make a great tool for finding out exactly where THE_REAL_SHAQ is at all time, or who to follow on #followfriday

22 videos have been posted on YouTube covering basically then entire webOS emulator, which will give us the [...]

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While these video demos aren’t taken from a Palm Pre, they are pretty close to the real thing. The “invisible man” from PalmPreForum.org uploaded a total of 15 videos featuring the Palm Pre’s interface. These were taken from a leaked emulator given out to early developers. Sit back and enjoy a thorough [...]

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Palm is taking a page out of what Apple did to all of us two years ago when the company announced the iPhone 6-months prior to releasing it – driving all of us (waiting to buy one) nuts with short teaser-video clips.

I know there are many of you-Pre owner wannabe out there that’ll eat up [...]

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Palm is taking a page out of what Apple did to all of us two years ago when the company announced the iPhone 6-months prior to releasing it – driving all of us (waiting to buy one) nuts with short teaser-video clips.

I know there are many of you-Pre owner wannabe out there that’ll eat up [...]

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The Palm Pre world was abuzz this week with new video demos of the new smartphone, surfacing just about everywhere. There are demos of everything from calendar function and the browser to Google Maps in the browser and general synergy between the device’s apps. To top it all off, we’ve got a 26 minute demo [...]

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The Palm Pre world was abuzz this week with new video demos of the new smartphone, surfacing just about everywhere. There are demos of everything from calendar function and the browser to Google Maps in the browser and general synergy between the device’s apps. To top it all off, we’ve got a 26 minute demo [...]

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