A French network has been letting slip some details about the next iteration of Palm Pre, un-originally titled the Pre 2. The biggest piece of information in the leak of course is that there is even a Palm Pre 2 at all. Until now there hadn't been any sort of official confirmation that the handset even existed. The leaked info is rather sparse, but there are a few choice snippets to pour over:

• 1 GHz processor
• 512 MB RAM
• webOS 2.0

SFR also comments on webOS 2.0 supporting Push for the likes of Facebook, which presumably means that messages, notifications, etc will be pushed to your handset. The picture used in the leak looks remarkably like the original Pre, which may or may not be a good thing depending if its the Pre 2 shown here and your point of view. Some may have hoped for a different design whilst others may still pine for its pebble beauty. At any rate its coming, we just don't know when yet.

PreFox is an early proof-of-concept web browser for webOS based on the the same source code as Mozilla Firefox for Mobile.

The default webOS browser is fast and simple to use but Mozilla Firefox for Mobile features many benefits:

• Better support for web standards allowing rich sites like Flickr to function correctly
• Multiple tabs and session restore
• Remembering cookies and passwords for sites
• Built in synchronisation of bookmarks and history with desktop Firefox
• The awesomebar
• Support for many add-ons

The challenge was to see if the current Palm Pre hardware and its platform webOS was capable of running such a full featured web browser. The answer is, probably yes, but there is still work to do.

Startup is too slow. It is probably not possible to equal the startup speed of webOS built in browser but it still needs to be faster to be useful.Currently PreFox runs and can be used to browse the web but the following key things keep it from being truly usable:

• Memory use is currently too high often giving the “Too many cards” errors.
• Sometimes while running PreFox will become slow for periods of time, clearly it is doing something in the background that needs to be identified.
• Various UI and functionality tweaks specific for webOS.
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In the case of the first three a lot of the work that the Mozilla team are doing to improve things on the Android platform will translate directly to PreFox.

PreFox requires webOS 1.4.5 and so far has only been tested on a Sprint Palm Pre. It probably works a little better on a Palm Pre Plus but I have no idea whether it would even start on a Palm Pixi.

We have already seen Many WebOS2.0 Rumors and images appear online featuring the upcoming webOS 2.0 update to the mobile Operating System, But its Leaked with a Video to seeing it in motion. Palm webOS 2.0 has finally made an appearance on an YouTube Video showcasing the New WebOS UI and Home screen and showing off that more smooth look and feel.

Unfortunately, the Youtube Video has been removed Due to a Copyright Infringements.

Via MobileCrunch