Bell's roving Palm Pre roadshow is a gift that just keeps on giving to news-strapped bloggers, with the two latest segments seeing Bradley sally forth onto the streets of Montreal to unleash the smartphone onto an unsuspecting collection of cafe diners, buskers and (combining two previous episode demographics) seniors & kids.

How is Palm's latest smartphone like delicious poutine? Are there enough games on the Pre to impress a four-year-old? Is portable document viewing a musician's best friend? Most importantly, will Brad's effort to land a date on camera earn him a slap or sweet success? The answers to all of this (and so much less) can be found in the two videos embedded after the jump...

The good folks at O'Reilly Media have posted a video of their September 9 "webOS Application Basics" developer webcast, hosted by Palm Software CTO and webOS book author Mitch Allen. If you can ignore the scratchy audio, it's nice and informative and provides a decent introduction to webOS apps for the beginner, although there won't be too much that's new to those who've already read the O'Reilly book. We've posted the full Youtube embed after the break.

Additionally - and we must have missed this one when it popped up in July - Christian Sepulveda and Davis Frank of Pivotal Labs have hosted a developer webcast on Automated Unit Testing with the Mojo SDK. It delves into the topic of using the Jasmine Javascript testing framework, using the example of a basic Twitter application. webOShelp.net has an excellent, thorough summary of the presentation and Q&A at their site.

Palm have announced another round of updates to their App Catalog via the Official Palm Blog, with the headline act being GDial Pro from Mobile Entertainment Group, a formerly homebrew Google Voice solution that has now graduated to the big leagues.

The update includes 10 additional apps:

AccuRadio (from AccuRadio), offering streaming radio for the U.S. and Canada
Local Concerts (iLike), giving you personalized concert updates from your favorite artists
Simple Bible (Jev Vandegrift), providing the full text of the Bible with a range of ebook features
Currency Converter (Janni Kovacs), simplifying those inevitable "duh" moments when making international transactions
4:20 Wallpaper (A Minor Label), with a selection of artwork to give your Palm Pre a new look
Forbes (Forbes), for essential business news
A trio of new games: Video Poker (bytesequencing.com), Checkers (Keen Studios), and Lights Out (Vasudeva Damarasingu).

Sprint today added a new feature to its Everything Data plan package, unlimited mobile to mobile calling. With the new Any Mobile, Anytime (non-flash link), new and current Sprint customers will receive unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling from the Sprint Network to any wireless phone on any U.S. wireless carrier network at any time.

This new option is even extended to existing Sprint customers who currently subscribe to an Everything Data or Everything Data Family plan, which includes nearly all the Palm Pre users in the US at this time. Sprint says you will automatically receive – at no extra charge – the added value of Any Mobile, Anytime starting on the first day of the their next bill cycle, with no action or change of plans necessary.

Oh, the angst. Last week we previewed NaNapps' sharp-looking webOS music player, NaNplayer, which promises a lot of great features currently unavailable in the stock Palm Music application. Unfortunately for the developer, Blubble, it seems Palm aren't quite ready to accept it into the App Catalog yet: the app has been rejected for the time being, owing to its use of the undocumented webOS file indexing API - despite the fact that Palm's own app uses exactly the same API.

Before we grab the pitchforks and flaming torches and descend upon Sunnyvale, however, it should be noted that there are technical consequences that arise from the use of undocumented APIs. For instance, it's logical to assume that being undocumented means that the API has not been fully developed and is still subject to change, potentially breaking NaNplayer with any future updates and leading to unhappy customers. That said: this is not great PR for Palm and their fledgling App Catalog, which is in dire need of stocking up and has until now been getting the benefit of the doubt in comparison to another certain fruit-named company's draconian policies.

After introducing the Canadian Palm Pre to one end of the age spectrum, Bell's roving spruiker, Bradley, takes the svelte smartphone along to a soccer match to meet the other extreme: kids. (Amusingly, their coach totes what appears to be a Graphite Treo 680.) The giggling gaggle of girls gives the Pre the kind of reception usually reserved - disturbingly - for the likes of the Jonas Brothers, with much screaming and "Oh my God, I touched it!" Facebook integration and the mirror on the back seem especially well-received. The soccer moms don't seem to mind it, either.

As usual, you can catch this video on Bell's Meet My Palm Pre Facebook page or here after the break.

What fortuitous timing. Hot on the heels of Palm's biggest announcement since the unveiling of the Pre, Engadget has announced that the debut episode of their filmed-live Engadget Show will feature Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein as their special guest. If Engadget are anything like us, they'll be asking some pointed questions asked about Palm's pretty new Pixi, webOS 1.2, Pre sales and (of course) the ongoing cat-and-mouse battle between Apple and Palm and the controversial webOS iTunes syncing.

The show premieres this weekend in New York City on Sunday, September 13th, at Tishman Auditorium at Parsons The New School for Design. You can catch all the details at Engadget.

Apple today released a major new version of its iTunes media software. The new version 9.0 brings a number of new features including expanded synchronization options for iPod/iPhone devices, new music store functionality and an improved interface.

Of primary concern to Palm Pre users is that iTunes v9 does indeed break webOS's Media Sync iTunes functionality. At this point users who wish to retain the ability to sync their Pre with iTunes should hold off from upgrading and stick with the previous version 8.2.1.

One of the biggest breakthrough features of Palm's webOS is the Synergy PIM aggregation, which pulls together all your contacts and other data from various online services into one centralized repository on your device. So, it's with great enthusiasm that we greet the news that Yahoo! and LinkedIn will soon be joining the roster of Synergy services, as announced alongside the new Palm Pixi.

Yahoo! of course will be offering contacts, calendar, push email and Yahoo! Messenger integration, as we (somewhat obviously) predicted back in February. LinkedIn, a social network targeted at job seekers and professionals will be especially welcome to business types, pulling down all your contact and associated information (including job titles) and helping make webOS a more compelling option to Blackberry users looking to jump ship. There no word yet on whether these upgrades will be featured in upcoming webOS 1.2 update, but it would seem a reasonably safe bet.

Palm must be pleased as punch at the substantial amount of press coverage that their latest webOS-powered smartphone, the Pixi, has generated. The Internet is abuzz with chatter, although it is not all unanimously positive. Praise for the thin form factor and exposed QWERTY is common, but the smaller screen and lack of Wi-Fi has attracted a fair amount of grumbling, too, and the decision to make the announcement one day ahead of an expected deluge of Apple news in the wake of today's iPod press event is also being questioned.

Read on for our full round-up of the buzz!

Corrected:With the announcement of the Palm Pixi's full spec sheet, intrepid Googlers such as your correspondent now have a whole raft of new hardware to familiarize themselves with. First cab off the rank is the heart of the beast: the Qualcomm MSM7627 chipset, which takes the place of the Texas Instruments OMAP processor which powers its older sibling, the Palm Pre.

The 7627's close relative, the MSM7227 was first announced by Qualcomm back in February of this year, where the company touted that they were targeting "sub-$150" smartphones. (A hint at Pixi's as-yet-unannouced price?) The chipset has a 600 MHz processor with FPU, hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, integrated Bluetooth 2.1 and GPS, can support up to an 8 megapixel camera (although this is obviously not the case with Pixi) and 30fps WVGA video encoding/decoding (WVGA being 'X' x 480). The same Palm employee who revealed the secret behind the "Zepfloyd" has noted on IRC that the chipset is "pretty comparable" to the OMAP in the Pre and "quite fast", featuring an L2 cache.