Engadget is reporting that AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph de la Vega made some remarks about webOS at a AT&T developer summit this morning.

Mr. de la Vega is reported to have said that two webOS devices will come to AT&T sometime during the first half of 2010. The developer conference is going on today and that is all that little snippet of a quote is all that is being reported at the moment.

Oh sweet, sweet SDL. How did we ever live without you? The webOS ports are coming thick and fast now, with these last two days bringing us three tasty new gaming treats for the Palm Pre. From Eric Gaudet - creator of the Virtual Keyboard - comes SuperTux, a side-scrolling 2D platformer that bears more than a passing resemblance to Super Mario Bros. It features the epnonymous penguin on a quest to save his girlfriend. You get your choice of accelerometer or keyboard controls, and the gesture area serves as your jump button.

From wIRC co-creator Ryan Hope comes TetriCrisis, an open-source clone of the classic block-dropping puzzler that made millions of nine-year-old boys hurl their Gameboys out their bedroom windows when the Fates flat-out refused to give up the straight block they needed to beat their brother's high score... but I digress. It uses keyboard controls and makes somewhat of a mockery of EA's charging $6.99 for the same in the App Catalog. Both of the above can now be found in Preware.

And the big 'un? It's after the break, along with a video of SuperTux for the PC.

Got a Pre on Bell? Want webOS 1.3.5.1? It's available now, so you can finally stop whining and git yer' downloadin' on.

As usual, do remember to remove all homebrew patches before installing, unless you're particularly keen on a visit to the Doctor. The 1.3.5 changelog is here and the 1.3.5.1 changelog here, if you're interested.

The Palm Pre has been shanzai'd again, this time under the Cool K07 moniker. A site called Solomobi is now selling the Sunnyvale inspired model for a cool $128 credits.

Cool's take includes a 2.8 inch 320 x 240 pixel touchscreen, ~20MB of memory with T-Flash expansion, 2 cameras, Bluetooth, Analog TV & FM radio and GPRS connectivity all with a slide out QWERT full keyboard. Software wise it is said to offer Java functions and its powered by some kind of gravity inducer? Lookout for the "handshaking function" which alters the wallpaper when shaken.

A couple more pics are posted after the break.

Shortly before the holidays, Palm filled a 8-K regulatory form with the SEC that announced that Rajiv Dutta has resigned from Palm's board of directors. Mr. Dutta recently joined Elevation Partners as a Managing Director and will step down effective Feb 25, 2010.

Mr. Dutta was nominated for the Palm board post by Elevation Partners. He had a brief tenure joining only last February taking over Donna Dubinsky's seat. In his new role, Mr. Dutta will work with Elevation's five co-founders and the rest of the Elevation team to evaluate investment opportunities, advise the senior management of Elevation's portfolio companies, and drive the overall strategy of the firm.

As opposed to their last report from September, which was somewhat ambiguous on Palm's current fortunes, ChangeWave Research's latest 90-day overview of the consumer smartphone space is decidedly more gloomy.

The survey of 4,068 consumers showed that in addition to Palm's marketshare falling slightly by 1%, consumer preference for webOS has also dipped in the face of fierce competition from new Android handsets, dropping from 8% to 4% of planned future smartphone purchases. As the report's authors note, Palm's best chance to boost their slowing momentum is their upcoming launches on new carriers, finally freeing them of the Sprint exclusivity that many have blamed for webOS's relatively unspectacular sales figures thus far.

Rumour:A brief two-sentence post over at The Boy Genius Report claims today that Palm's two webOS handsets, the Pre and the Pixi, are "beginning to appear" in Verizon's inventory system, with Big Red having ordered 200,000 units of each model. For the mathematically-challenged, that means they'll have 400,000 in total ready to unload.

The question this raises, of course, is whether this is good news or bad? Given that Palm and webOS were both hyped (mainly by an excitable tech press) as giant-slayers after their initial introduction, an order of this relatively small size could indicate Verizon does not share those expectations and isn't planning to promote Palm's new babies on the same level as their New Sensation, the Android-powered Motorola Droid - despite apparently getting upgraded models. Of course, it could also just mean that they're being cautious. We'll have to see how it plays out once the expected CES announcement is made...

A teensy-tiny webOS update has been pushed out by Palm today. webOS 1.3.5.1 fixes a Calendar bug, introduced by the rollover to 2010:

Palm has discovered that the turn of the year 2010 has surfaced an issue that affects customers who use Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) to synchronize their calendars. Data remains intact on the device; however, this issue prevents the data from being displayed correctly in the Calendar application. It impacts all versions of webOS.

The full (small) changelog is after the jump.

Sure, that's not a Pixi you see on the right there, but if you look at it from reeeeally far away then you might get an idea of what Palm has next in store for its Centro sequel: Pink. (The colour, not the singer.) In some of the least surprising news ever, an anonymous tipster has sent Engadget a photo of Sprint's inventory, which clearly shows "BUY BACK PALM PIXI PINK".

Why unsurprising? Well, Palm does have a history with this sort of thing, and with Valentine's Day a month-and-a-bit away a pink Pixi might be just the thing for your ball-and-chain lady friend / effeminate man friend. Perhaps we'll be hearing something at CES... Anyway, photo's after the break.

For European Pre owners, the webOS App Catalog has been something of a cruel joke, as we're forced to watch our American brethren get all the cool new stuff while we're left with the dregs. Fortunately that's about to change: Palm today announced that paid applications would be coming to the European App Catalog in March 2010. Developer Community Manager Chuq Von Rospach waxes lyrical on the Palm Developer Network Blog:

The general app catalog model is not new, but what we're doing with it is. The Palm developer program extends the unique web orientation of the Palm webOS platform, providing developers innovative opportunities to leverage the web as a promotional channel for applications. We offer greater freedom and choice of how to get your applications to market and unparalleled control to promote and grow your business.

Developers interested in getting their apps into the catalog can find full instructions on the Developer Network Blog. Just remember there's a global audience out there...

So much for "inching". It was always obvious that OpenGL support for the Pre was en route, but what was unexpected was that it would be up-and-running (courtesy, as usual, of the ever-amazing WebOS Internals group) so quickly. "bpadalino" gets the cred here, having whipped up a simple demo of a flat triangle with concentric circles, hypnotically and infinitely contracting inwards... ever-inwards... so sleepy...

Wait, where was I? Oh right. This is, of course, more proof that Palm is gearing up to announce proper GPU support for webOS apps - and it's about time, too. A video of the OpenGL demo is embedded after the break (with thanks to Max Kanter from The MxWeb). Alternatively, you can catch it on the WebOS Internals YouTube channel.