webOS 1.4.5 Status Update

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The much anticipated webOS 1.4.5 update is now available for O2 subscribers in Germany. As reported by PreCentral, the update is 9 MB in size and downloads pretty quickly on the O2 network. The update fixes a ‘rare problem so that podcasts now download correctly’. Apart from this fix, the update finally brings 3D gaming support on the Palm Pixi. While Palm Pre owners on O2 have already enjoyed 3D gaming on their devices for a while now, Palm Pixi owners were left in the lurch. It's fair to say that this update restores parity amongst Pre and Pixi users for providing an enhanced gaming experience.

Though Palm published the 1.4.5 Change Log on its website on June 24th, there is still no sign of the software update on Sprint network. We will keep you posted as soon as 1.4.5 is available on the Sprint network. Meanwhile, it doesn't harm to occasionally click the 'Update' button on your webOS devices.

webOS 1.4.5 is a major milestone from a developer perspective as well. It is the first release to combine SDK and PDK into a single tool and there's a new API which lets a developer close a specific stage of an application if things go wrong. There's exhaustive documentation for the new APIs and a PDK Technical FAQ to ensure that developers do not get lost.

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