Note System update 2.1.0 applies to Pre+ and Pre 2 smartphones only. It does not apply to Pixi+ smartphones. If you have an SFR Pre 2 smartphone, see palm.com/webos-pre2-sfr for the release notes for your smartphone.

Note System update 2.1.0 is not available as an automatic update to your Pre+ smartphone. You must use webOS Doctor to manually install system update 2.1.0. See palm.com/preplus-webos for instructions.

Version information
New applications
Feature changes to existing applications
Security

Version information

Version: webOS 2.1.0
Release date: 03/14/2011

New applications

Accounts

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You can use the Accounts application as a central location to set up and manage online accounts.
You can select from a list of popular online accounts.
In Accounts, tap Find More to view and download additional accounts in App Catalog that sync contact, calendar, email, or messaging data.
Use the Accounts application to turn sync on or off for each application associated with an account. For example, for your Google or Exchange account, you can individually turn contact, calendar, email, or messaging sync on or off.

Exhibition

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Exhibition gives you access to special applications that optimize use of the smartphone while it is placed on an HP Touchstone charging dock. The apps include Time (clock app), Photos (photo slideshow), and Agenda (agenda view).
Exhibition turns on automatically when you place your smartphone on a Touchstone charging dock. When the smartphone is not on a charging dock, you can manually turn on Exhibition from the Launcher.

Gesture Tutorial

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The gesture tutorial provides an interactive, hands-on guide to help you learn common webOS gestures including tap, back, and up. You can now access the tutorial at any time from the Launcher.

Quickoffice mobile office software

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With Quickoffice mobile office software, you can view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files that you copy from a computer or receive as an email attachment on your smartphone. You can also enter account settings for an online collaborative tool such as Google Docs or Dropbox and view files from that account in the Quickoffice app.

SIM Toolkit

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The new SIM Toolkit application gives you access to services from your wireless service provider such as account information, payment, and news.

Note If the SIM Toolkit application icon does not appear in the Launcher, your wireless service provider does not support this app.

Software Manager

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The Software Manager application provides a central location where you can update and delete any apps that you downloaded from App Catalog. Software Manager replaces the My Apps feature that existed in earlier versions of App Catalog.
For downloaded applications that support the notification feature, if an app update is available, you receive a notification of the update.

Text Assist

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The Text Assist feature offers automatic spelling correction, expansion of shorthand forms (r becomes are), auto-capitalization, and a dictionary that you can edit. Use the Text Assist app to customize any Text Assist feature.

Voice Dial

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You can dial contacts using your voice by launching the Voice Dial application. Voice dialing can also be initiated by pressing and holding the volume button at any time, or by tapping and holding on the Phone dial pad.?

VPN

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Support for IPsec versions of VPN or Cisco AnyConnect VPN is now available directly through the VPN application.
You can access the VPN app either from the Launcher or from the connection menu.

Feature changes to existing applications

App Catalog

In this release, App Catalog features a redesigned user interface.
Improved search functionality allows you to search by featured apps, top paid apps, top free apps, and new apps. You can also browse and search within categories and subcategories.
The My Apps screen in App Catalog, which listed all your downloaded apps and enabled you to update and delete apps, has been replaced by the separate Software Manager application.
For downloaded applications that support the notification feature, if an app update is available, you receive a notification of the update.

Backup

Information backed up to your Palm profile now includes call history entries, text messages, and instant messages. Note that multimedia messages are not backed up.

Bluetooth

This release offers support for Bluetooth keyboards.

Calendar

This release includes Calendar fixes that were introduced in system release 2.0.

Clock

The Clock app features two new preferences: You can set whether alarms should play with ascending volume, and can set the snooze interval for alarms.
When an alarm goes off, the screen now stays on until you perform some action on the alarm.

Contacts

You can designate any contact as a favorite by tapping on the contact entry screen. View your favorites by opening Contacts and tapping Favorites, or by opening Phone and tapping .
Any contacts you designate as favorites appear at the top of the contacts section of the Just Type search results screen. See also Email, Messaging, and Phone.
If you synchronize Google contacts that contain birthday information, the birthday info now appears in Contacts on the smartphone.

Email

You can set a preference to see a confirmation notification when you delete a message. If the preference is turned on, the notification appears when you throw a message off the side of the screen, asking you to confirm the deletion.
You can use the Mark All Read menu item to mark all messages in a folder as read.
When you begin typing a contact name or email address to address a message, favorites appear at the top of the address match list. See also Contacts, Messaging, and Phone.

Just Type

Just Type expands upon the universal search feature in earlier versions of webOS software. It is made more visible through a field with the text “Just type...” at the top of Card view.
Using Just Type, you can enter a search term in Card view or the Launcher and then search the web, email, web browser history and bookmarks, App Catalog, and YouTube.
From Just Type, you can start a Quick Action such as writing a new email or text message; creating a memo, calendar appointment, or task; or updating your Facebook status.
When you type a search term, the search results screen includes a Suggest box. Tap Suggest to view a list of web search terms that closely match the characters that you typed. You can start a web search by tapping one of the suggestions.
You can customize Just Type by entering a search term, scrolling to the bottom of the screen, and tapping Preferences. Options include which search engine to use as the default, which apps to search, and the Quick Actions you can perform.
If you open a web page and an additional search engine is available, a notification appears alerting you that you can add the search engine. If you add the search engine, it appears as an option in Just Type.
Any contacts that you designate as favorites appear at the top of the contacts search results section of the Just Type search results screen.

Location Services

Location Services now allows you to choose whether or not to pass location information to websites that request it.

Messaging

You can add instant messaging (IM) buddies directly from your smartphone by sending a buddy request. You can also receive and reply to buddy requests and can delete buddies from your buddies list.
Yahoo! Messenger is now available as an IM account for all carriers.
When you begin typing a contact name to address a message, favorites appear at the top of the address match list. See also Contacts, Email, and Phone.
You can receive multimedia messages while roaming, even if the Data Roaming preference is set to off.

Phone

The Phone app Phone app features a visual voicemail screen. Visual voicemail displays your voicemail messages as a list so you can see who called and select the messages that you want to listen to. You can also make calls and send text messages to callers directly from the visual voicemail list.
The Phone app features a Favorites screen, from which you can add, remove, or call a favorite. View your favorites by opening Phone and tapping , or opening Contacts and tapping Favorites.
If you type a contact name to dial, favorites appear at the top of the contact matches. See also Contacts, Email, and Messaging.

System

In Card view, related cards now appear in stacks. You can manually stack and unstack cards by tapping and dragging.
The Launcher now displays icons for all applications, including apps in Quick Launch.
You can add any number of new Launcher pages, and can delete any Launcher page.
Launcher pages now have names. You can rename any Launcher page by tapping and holding the current name.
You can change the order of Launcher pages to customize organization of your apps.

Tasks

Within a task list, you can search for individual tasks by typing the task name.

Web

If you open a web page and an additional search engine is available, a notification appears alerting you that you can add the search engine. If you add the search engine, it appears as an option in Just Type.

Wi-Fi

Out of the box, the Wi-Fi feature is turned on by default.
A Captive Portal Detected notification appears if you try to connect to a Wi-Fi access point that requires you to go to a special Internet page (called a captive portal) before connecting to the Internet. On the captive portal, you might need to enter a username and password or pay for the Internet session. Until you successfully connect to the access point through the captive portal, the smartphone continues to use a wireless service provider data connection to connect to the Internet.

Security

This release addresses a number of security issues with HP webOS software.

Individuals interested in contacting Palm to report suspected security issues can find more information at palm.com/security .