Kris brings us a new review of Astraware's Hidden Expedition: Titanic game. Based on Hidden Expedition: Titanic, the best-selling PC game, the handheld version features the same stunning graphics and captures the atmosphere of the original. Control your game using a choice of the intuitive five-way controller or the stylus to find a variety of artifacts hidden within the sunken ship. The legendary RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912, still houses a wealth of artifacts and treasures on-board. In Hidden Expedition: Titanic, explore the wreckage of this once-majestic ship and collect antique artifacts for the Titanic Museum.

Palm has released a new audio patch for the Treo 700w & 700wx smartphones on Verizon. The patch address issues which may cause the call to drop or a loss of audio when the phone receives a second call or voicemail notification while on a current call. In some cases the phone may enter a suspend mode and disable the speaker and microphone in the above situation. Verizon Treo devices with the Treo700w_-1.22-VZW or Treo700wx_-1.22-VZW are compatible with this patch.

The patch can be installed over the air on the device by following the instructions here. You can read more details and view further installation advice at Palm Support.

Verizon Wireless announced plans today that it will provide customers the option to use, wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company on its wireless network. This move will essentially allow new products, niche devices and applications to run on its network that Verizon wouldn't normally offer. Verizon plans to have these new options available to customers throughout the country by the end of 2008.

Palm today introduced the Palm Treo 755p smartphone on the Iusacell network in Mexico. The Palm OS based CDMA Treo 755p will include built-in Microsoft Direct Push Technology email support and integrated Google Maps for mobile. The Treo 755p runs on the Iusacell 3G Mobile Network, the only third-generation network in Mexico managing data-transmission speeds of up to 3.1 Mbps.

TreoTown software has released Treobble, a touch screen focused contacts scroller and dialer application. The program allows you to navigate and dial your existing contacts by swiping across the screen via a finger optimized interface. You can rapidly scroll through your address list similar to how the iPhone works. Treobble also lets users message and email contacts as well and you can customize the color scheme and manually adjust the scrolling behavior to suit your preferences.

Treobble v2.0 is compatible with most Palm OS Treo's and the Palm Centro. The program is available as freeware and the developer accepts donations.

RESETgame has released a new version of its popular Par 72 Golf for Palm OS. Par 72 Golf is a realistic 3D golf game with three 18 hole courses. Version 2.0 brings three new unique courses set in mountain, desert, and seaside environments. The game features realistic wind, gravity and friction and has a variety of holes with hills, water, sand traps, and sloping greens.

Par 72 Golf II for Palm v2.0 is available now. The demo includes the ability to play the first hole and the game costs $14.95 for the full version.

The PalmInfocenter software store is running a 2 day 20% off software sale.

The sale includes all Palm OS, Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Windows Mobile Smartphone titles for your entire order. The sale will run through the end of Tuesday, November 27th.

To take advantage of this deep discount enter the coupon code: 2DAY20 in your shopping cart at check out.

While the long wait for the official WM6 update for Treo 750 users on AT&T continues, Palm has finally taken the opportunity to address the matter on the official Palm Blog. Sadly, the post authored by the "Palm Windows Mobile Team" is quite reminiscent of Palm’s vague addressing of the myriad of issues surrounding the 700p's ROM update delay earlier this year and in 2006. No definitive reason for the huge delay in releasing the update is offered, nor does Palm make any reference to the fact that Australian 750 owners have been enjoying their WM6 updates for over three months. Also overlooked is the fact that unlocked 750 users have been able to download WM6 officially for nearly a month.

The Treo 500v is the third and latest love child to be produced by the Palm-Microsoft affair. In addition to being the thinnest Treo yet, is also sports some other oft-requested hardware specs, including a 2-megapixel camera (finally!), Bluetooth 2.0 and a widescreen display. Its launch was a testament to the strength of the carrier relationships that Palm has been able to build over the three years they’ve been selling smartphones: in collaboration with Vodafone, the 500v has seen a swift rollout across twelve countries in less than two months. Like the recently-released Centro and last year's Treo 680, Palm is targeting the 500v at entry-level consumers who may have never used a smartphone before but are ready to upgrade.

Have they succeeded in creating Average Joe's smartphone? Or is it just another me-too Windows Mobile device? Read on for the answers to these & other scintillating questions in PIC's in-depth review…

Palm OS users on Verizon are still eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Treo 755p on their carrier a full six months after the device's release on Sprint. Verizon has now posted a bit of additional information on top of their official October press release for the 755p on their B2B teaser site, offering a "Coming Soon!" headline here and the first pictures of the device in its new teal/green color scheme for Verizon. The exact definition of Verizon's "soon" is up in their air but it is still not outside the realm of possibility for a release to still occur before the end of this month.

Pushed to the backburner by Palm's focus on Treo devices with QWERTY keyboards, Graffiti character input still has a legion of fans. TealPoint Software has just released version 3.93, primarily a bugfix release, of their long-time Palm OS utility TealScript. TealScript brings on-screen Graffiti text input to Treo and Centro smartphones that do not have a dedicated Graffiti input area like their Palm PDA brethren. In addition, TealScript is fully trainable and can restore much of the original Graffiti 1 strokes that have not been officially available on a Palm Inc. device since the Tungsten T of 2002.

TealScript costs $29.95 to register and a fully-functional demo version is included. For owners of older Palm OS devices picking up a TX or E2 from Palm’s huge "Black Friday" sale, TealScript can quite likely ease the transition from an older Graffiti 1 device to these newer Graffiti 2-enabled handhelds.