While we wait for the Palm Pre 2 to arrive domestically on store shelves this holiday season, and webOS 2.0 at some point in "the coming months," webOS apps may be the next best thing. It just so happens that many are currently on sale. So if you’re in the shopping mood, and we assume you are, here are just some of the apps you’ll find on sale this holiday weekend:

• Active Card 2, $1.79
• MyQ For Netflix, $2.00
• Pack ‘n’ Track, $3.99
• Safe Box Password, $6.49
• Astraware Casino, $0.99
• How To Train Your Dragon, $0.99
• Radio Bird, $0.99
• Speed Forge Extreme, $0.99
• Weather Window, $1.49
• Word Whirl, $1.99

These are only a handful of the webOS apps you can find on sale in the Palm App Catalog. To find more sale apps we recommend entering the word "sale" in the app catalog’s search field. Then sort, swipe, and download your way to some great holiday savings. Best part: you don’t have to wait in line for hours to get the best deals!

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While we await the release of webOS 2.0 and its promised QuickOffice suite (with upcoming editing features), let’s not forget that we already have a native word processing app for webOS: Scratch, by No Insult Software. Not only is Scratch already up to version 1.4.1, but it supports importing/exporting from Google Docs and offers features such as in-document search, text formatting (bold/italic/underline), "real paragraphs" and style sheets among others. It can be used for everything from quick (and easily exportable) notes to writing and editing long documents.

Even better, Scratch is on sale at $1 (a 75% discount) for the entire month of November, in honor of NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month. While writing an entire novel on a thumbboard may be an overly ambitious (not to mention painful) project, given the confirmation that webOS 2.0 will finally include Bluetooth keyboard support, and its $1 sale price, Scratch should be a must-buy for anyone who is or might want to be a writer.

Source: PreCentral App Gallery

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I am sure many of you have been waiting for the perfect cell phone Black Friday deals so that you can grab the phone you always wanted at prices normally not available any other time of the year. If you love Palm Pre Plus or other smartphone like Blackberry, and Android, there should be plenty [...]

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We’ve asked about Social Media apps, Games, and Travel apps, now we’re just straight up asking: the Half-Off sale on webOS apps ends tomorrow and so tell us: what have you purchased? What will you purchase? There are a ton of good apps out there (a few of our faves are after the break) but tell us in the comments what you’re rocking and or rolling.

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Still can’t decide which apps to pick up in Palm’s Half-off sale? We won’t judge waffling on fifty cents (much), but you now have another two weeks to pick and choose – Palm has extended the sale until July 23rd, per the Palm Developer Blog:

We’re so happy with the response that we’ve decided to extend the sale for an additional two weeks. Not only will this give customers more time to explore the catalog and get great deals on your apps, it will give you more time to generate sales and revenue

This also gives new developers (and iPhone game porters) a little more time to get in on the app-sale action. Remember, too, that Palm is absorbing the cost of the sale here, so developers get the full payment for sold apps.

In a related note, PreCentral Tip-meister Extraordinaire Adam Marks notes that App Catalog search is greatly improved lately, meaning it’s easier to find the apps you want to purchase

Source: Palm Developer Blog

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We always like getting in on good stuff for cheap, and Gameloft is giving us a chance to do that with some sweet PDK action. Their game, Real Tennis, is on sale for 99% of a standard currency unit worldwide, retailing for $0.99 in the US of A and €0.99 across the Atlantic in all European countries currently serviced by Palm. The sale’s only good for a few days, so if you’ve got ninety nine hundredths of your local currency to spend, this is certainly one place we’d certainly recommend looking.

Thanks to Germansurfer for the tip!

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While we can’t say we’re completely surprised, we are still surprised. Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein has long advocated that Palm’s plan is to go it alone and that they had a path to return to profitability, but Bloomberg is now reporting Palm is putting itself up for sale. According to “three people familiar with the situation,” Palm is working with Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to find a proper suitor. Bids are expected to come in as early as this week. According to those sources, both HTC and Lenovo are keenly interested in acquiring Palm, and Dell had expressed interest, but has since decided against making an offer. As we would expect, all parties rumored to be involved have declined to comment, but if Bloomberg’s sources are to be believed, Palm’s days as an independent company might be over very soon.

Thanks to everybody that sent this in!

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Not only Verizon Wireless is dropping the price on Palm Pre Plus (it’s on sale now for just $19 through our advertiser), they are also offering you free Mobile Hotspot on Palm Pre Plus and Pixi for a limited time. You can connect up to 5 Wi-Fi capable devices at the same time and try [...]

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Chris’ eagle eye caught that the Palm Pre Plus is only $79.99 and the Pixi Plus is down to $29.99. Turns out this is part of Verizon’s daily 24 hour sale, so you’ve got most of the rest of the day to pull the trigger.

Actually, this is the second this month we’ve seen Verizon mark the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus down to these prices in their 24 hour sale. Make of that what you will, but we’re behind anything that sells more webOS phones.

Thanks, Chris!

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Whether you are looking to switch carriers or upgrade to a new phone, you can count on us to find you the best Palm Pre deals. Right now, you can find the Palm Pre on Sprint for $249.99 before $100 mail-in rebate. And Palm Pre Plus also costs $249.99 before rebates. So, are they really [...]

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