On Friday afternoon, Palm released the Palm webOS 1.2.1 update for the Sprint edition Palm Pre. The following is the list of fixes that 1.2.1 brings. Note that there are no new applications installed by the 1.2.1 updater.
Feature changes to existing applications
Resolved an issue where after installing the 1.2.0 webOS update some customers running Exchange 2007 could no longer synchronize with their Exchange account for Email, Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks.
System
- Resolves an issue preventing media sync from working with latest version of iTunes (9.0.1).
- Media sync now synchronizes photo albums, maintaining the album structure in the Photos app.
- Media sync now allows for synchronizing photos without requiring the full-resolution originals. This provides faster display of high-quality full-screen images and enables users to store more photos on the phone.
Web
Resolved an issue where if a user tried to play streaming music or video, the media stream might drop out or have a long delay before starting.
Security
Addresses a security issue encountered by webkit developers. This issue did not impact end users.
You can learn more about the Palm webOS 1.2.1 update on the Palm website.
As a fan of both Palm and Apple, I’m glad to see that Palm has once again given their customers a way to sync naively with Apple’s iTunes jukebox software.
The webOS 1.2.1 update is about half the size of the webOS 1.2 update (38MB vs. 79MB) that was released earlier in the week. My upgrade took about 6 minutes to install after downloading and validating the update file.
All-in-all, a nice surprise for a rainy Saturday afternoon! Now I have an excuse to take a spin in my car to make sure the Bluetooth features are working. 😉
UPDATE:
I just tested the Media Sync feature with Apple iTunes 9.0.1 (9) and everything appears to be working normally again!
