Palm today announced the availability of the Treo 500v smartphone in Singapore on the MobileOne network. The Palm Treo 500v runs on the Windows Mobile 6 standard platform and includes high speed 3G/UMTS Internet access.

The Treo 500v, is the first device in Asia to carry the new Vodafone user interface on Windows Mobile 6 Standard edition (formerly WM Smartphone edition). The new device delivers enhanced usability and ease of navigation to customers who want to keep on top of their work and social lives while on the go.

Gx5 Software has released UltimatePhone for Palm OS, the successor to its popular, best selling DialByPhoto app. UltimatePhone brings an entirely new and enhanced Phone experience to your Treo or Centro smartphone. It's key function provides a fully skinable and modern phone interface (improved dialer, contacts and call logs) with instant access to Photo Contacts, web links, application launching shortcuts and SMS messages. A sample of the new features include animations and transitions, integrated voice dialing (VoiceDialIt required), speed SMSing and improved web searches.

UltimatePhone v1.5006 is available now for $19.95 USD and comes with a free trial period. It requires 3MB of free space and is compatible with the Treo 650, 680, 700p, 755p and Palm Centro.

RingCare from GoTreo Software, makers of the popular VolumeCare application, has recently received a number of updates. RingCare Mobile is a ringtone management solution that allows you to use mp3's and midi tones for incoming phone calls, text messages and voicemail. It allows you to assign unique ringtones to each contact, phone number, company name and/or contact category. The app also has partial support for Goodlink users. This update and previous ones contain a few tweaks and address small bugfixes.

RingCare v2.29 is available now for $29.95 and includes a free trial period. Also available is its companion desktop application for Windows called RingCare Desktop, which creates custom ringtones from your music library and transfers them to your Treo. You can purchase both together for $39.95 for a limited time using the coupon code RINGCARES20.

Astraware has released a new mobile game title, Astraware Boardgames, a collection of 8 classic boardgames including Chess, Backgammon, Reversi and more. Astraware Boardgames includes 8 games, each with user-customizable rules and a range of difficulty levels, but designed with casual players and non-experts in mind.

CodeJedi has released a new game for Palm OS devices called BattleJewels. The game is described as the fusion of many genres of game into one addictive whole. It takes the jewel matching puzzler concept to a new level with added elements of action fighting games and role playing games. Players can customize their characters as the game goes on with level ups, buying and selling equipment and learning new moves and spells.

BattleJewels v1.0.2 is available now for Palm OS 5 and higher. Versions for Windows and the GP2X are also available. The game includes a free trial period and costs $13.99 USD for the full game. Read on for a full sized screenshot.

Datastick Systems has released a new handheld Treo-based Vibration Spectrum Analyzer / Data Collector. Vibration Spectrum Analyzers are used for industrial machine diagnostics and predictive maintenance. The new Datastick SiteConnex system combines, for the first time, a powerful handheld vibration analyzer/collector with an Internet-enabled smartphone in a single instrument.

Robo is a new strategy/puzzle game released for Palm OS and Windows Mobile from HeroCraft. Your job is to guide a love-stricken robot on a dangerous quest through a myriad of mazes outfitted with numerous obstacles including lazer guns, bombs and 'stone conglomerations' in order to reach his kidnapped robo lady-friend. This objective can be reached by moving stones to block laser beams, using bombs to explode laser cannons or (for the gaming Einsteins) making cannons destroy each other. The game features outstanding graphics and animation, 76 original levels of increasing difficulty and four unique game worlds.

Robo v1.0 is available now for Palm OS and Windows Mobile. It is available with a free trial version and costs $12.85 for the full game.

MetaViewSoft has released version 2.0 of its 2LaunchMe Treo utility. 2LaunchMe is a multifunctional app that provides a handy popup-status indicator, extended Hotkey & DA application launching, command bar access, keyboard backlight control, traffic counters and much more. It's one of those excellent little apps that you don't realize how useful it is until you actually give it a try on your Treo. The main new features in 2.0 include a GUI overhaul and an assortment new features and options.

2LaunchMe v2.0 for Palm OS is available now with a free trial. It costs $10.00 USD to register, but is currently on sale for $7.00 for a limited time.

Motion Apps has released another minor update to their mVoice call recording and voice memo app. This is the latest in a continuing series of positive performance and feature improvements to the app. The latest version update bring mVoice up to version 5.5.4. The new version adds the following improvements an added option for starting mVoice main screen upon recording, LED indicator options and other minor improvements and tweaks.

Registered users of earlier 5.x versions of mVoice can download the update using the app’s built-in auto update feature. The app itself is a self-executing installer that requires ~180k of device memory with the full uncompressed app needing ~346k. An SD card is required for storing audio files. mVoice is available now for $24.95 and runs on the Treo 650, 680, 700p, and 755p. A review of the older version 5.0 of mVoice can be found here.

Rumor: Another set of leaked Verizon release dates is making the rounds with another sighting of the Treo 755p. Confirming our earlier rumor report back in August, the Boy Genius Report has a new chart showing a November 1st date for the Palm Treo 755p.

The Treo 755p has been available on Sprint since this May. Previous leaked Verizon reports also showed a Treo 800w, though there is no sign of this device on the roadmap this time.

SelectCam is a new video-camera application for Palm OS devices. You can also set different quality levels and file size targets. The software will capture video clips to a memory card in any resolution the camera supports. Videos are encoded using the MPEG-4 Part 2 codec, which is more efficient than the H.263 codec used by Camcorder.

SelectCam v1.0 for Palm OS is available now with a free trial period. It costs $14.00 USD to register and is compatible with most Palm devices with a built in camera.