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The following video is a full walk through feature of the Palm Pixi and webOS. The overall handset is probably one of the best built phones I have held in my hand. The video is basic walk through of the Palm Pixi and webOS features the handset provides.

Adobe has announced that Flash Player 10.1 will be coming to a webOS device to you in the first half of 2010. Hope this will mean sooner (like January) than later.

On October 5th of this year at Adobe Max, Adobe Labs announced the release of the Flash 10.1 player and would be available in a Beta program to users. In a statement released on Adobe Labs website, it states "Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 is the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices. With support for a broad range of mobile devices, including smartphones, netbooks, smartbooks and other Internet-connected devices, Flash Player 10.1 allows your content to reach your customers wherever they are. A beta is expected to be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop systems including Windows, Macintosh and Linux later this year."

The Open Screen Project was institued by an industry-wide initiative, led by Adobe and backed by other industry leaders who all share one clear vision: Enable consumers to engage with rich Internet experiences seamlessly across any device, anywhere.

See the video below to see how the webOS will look with Flash 10.1.

Seeing is believing! As reported this morning by the guys over at PreCentral, video recording can be done on the Palm Pre. Though this is not an official release, Zonyl, from the PreCentral forums, posted a link with the file. The video appears to be limited to 320 x 480 @ 30fps at this time, although the hardware can handle 720x480@30fps easily. Another caveat is the video is badly formatted in a very unreadable file and one player that can handle the vids is SMPlayer.

In a press release today accompanying Palm's first quarter earnings report, CEO John Rubenstein stated the following:

"Due to importance of webOS to our overall strategy, we've made the decision to dedicate all future develoment resources to the evolution of webOS. Which means that going forward, our roadmap will include only Palm webOS-based devices."

This is not necessarily the end of the Treo phone but it sure means Palm is betting all it's cards on the webOS platform. With the announcement of the Pixi, you can see a Treo-esque type design quality to the handset. We would expect all future Palm devices to carry the webOS platform exclusively and give Palm a serious edge in the coming 12 months of devices released with webOS.

Palm's former CEO Ed Colligan apparently rejected an offer from Apple's Steve Jobs to not poach employees from each others respective companies.

Before Colligan stepped down as CEO in June, Jobs and Colligan had discussions in August of 2007 to not seek out hiring each other's employees. At the time, Apple introduced the iPhone just two months earlier right about when Palm hired Jon Rubenstein to develop new smart phones for Palm.

“Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the other’s employees, regardless of the individual’s desires, is not only wrong, it is likely illegal,” Colligan said.

Employees are entitled may seek employment where ever they chose, including at rival companies, as stated by Donald Russell, an antitrust lawyer.

“It’s a form of competition that is usually protected by antitrust laws that prohibit agreements that restrict competition,” said Russel.

[via Bloomberg]