You can add new feeds by searching for a feed or browsing a list of featured ones. You can also add an RSS feed directly by entering the URL. Newsroom integrates perfectly with the notification system and prompts you when new articles come in. There’s no way to read all new articles in one go, you’ll need to visit each page and tap on the icons with new numbers on them for each new article. Overall, this is a powerful and polished News and RSS reader with full-article support (not just snippets) and custom formatting that will almost certainly fulfill all your News browsing needs on the Palm Pre.

Gameplay is very, very good and offers a really immersive and social experience. Each player profile can have a photograph associated with it, making gameplay significantly more personal and engaging. In the works is the ability to buy additional chips and other in-game purchases. Once again, the app manages to present a lot of information and options in a surprisingly uncluttered and appealing manner – there’s a lot of stuff on screen, but it’s organized very well and blends in with regular gameplay. This free app is very well designed and offers full and engaging Texas Hold ‘em on the Palm Pre – a must download for all Pre gaming and cards fans.

The scoring system is very well-designed, with intermittent “blank” letters that can play the role of any and all letters that complete a word. This means one or two “blanks” can push your score very high pretty quickly. You can also sacrifice points to refresh the grid completely to have another go if you’re drawing a blank on the current one. The interface and look-and-feel is very polished and customizable. Most aspects of the game are configurable, including sound, “shake to clear” and the theme. Overall, this is an excellent game for the Palm Pre – engaging, interesting, and easy on the eyes.

The multiplayer scorecard can be emailed and GolfPinFinder will automatically launch the email app on your smartphone with pre-filled fields. The interface is very well done with a lot of attention to detail. You can configure your club settings before each round and tell the app which of your clubs are available for play. The large number of features and excellent design makes this one of the best Palm Pre apps at present. If you’re an avid golfer, you will find this app invaluable and while the price is yet to be seen, there’s no doubt GolfPinFinder sets a new benchmark on your smartphone in terms of depth and breadth of features.

The built-in compass offers another layer of simplicity and ease-of-use. The app comes with pretty sophisticated features, including the ability to create a log and mark the time and description of every waypoint. Waypoints can be sorted by name, date, or nearness to your current location. This means you can even use this app as a note-taking app that helps you complete tasks depending on where you are – simply create a new waypoint every time you tell yourself: “I need to do X the next time I’m here.” Go To Lite is a solid new app for the Palm Pre and introduces every smartphone owners secret dream app – an app to help you find your car in a large, baking hot parking lot.

The interface is very slick and matches the Palm Pre’s own design sensibilities. gDial integrates with your existing contacts and allows you to dial any one of them with your Google Voice number. You can send and receive text messages through the GV service from right within the application. You can also configure your dial tone on the Pre with gDial Pro. The feature list includes full voice, text, and voicemail history so you can completely replace your existing phone interface habits with gDial if you wish to. Shaking your Pre will refresh your history information or clear your dialer or new SMS depending on which screen you are on. gDial Pro brings a remarkably useful and far-reaching service to the Pre in an easy-to-use, comprehensive, and slick package.

Other features are similar to what GoodFood offers: user reviews, ratings, location-aware mapping, directions to the establishment from your current location, etc. The OpenTable app also lets you send a quick email from within the app with restaurant and reservation details. The app integrates well with your Pre calendar, so reservations can be scheduled appropriately with your other appointments. This is one of the more comprehensive and interactive Palm Pre Apps and will be useful for almost every Pre owner and, for now, makes other restaurant and food review apps redundant on your Palm Pre.

The Evernote package (desktop, Palm Pre, and cloud) also brings powerful behind the scenes intelligence. For instance, you can take a photo of a business card and Evernote will automatically add the right fields to your address book. It can also convert handwritten text so your notes are instantly searchable. The tool is very powerful if you enjoy capturing everything and organizing information. Others have found it to be a solution looking for a problem. Overall, this is a fantastic application, and a much needed organizer to round out the Palm Pre apps catalog.

The default functionality immediately pulls up eateries nearby to your current location. You can then drill down based on rating, price, and distance. You can also see photographs taken by other diners in specific restaurants. This really helps in understanding portion sizes, presentation, and the quality of the establishment. Most diners also leave comments and reviews which are all available through the application. Mapping is built right in. The interface is very clean and elegant – this is a very polished and useful Palm Pre application.

The information is often very detailed. The movies section, for example, will automatically pull up theater locations close to you, showtimes, movie reviews, and trailers right within the app. This is one of the best and most widely used location-aware places directory in the mobile market today, and it’s great to see it on the Palm Pre. I have no doubt you’ll be able to pick from a plethora of such apps soon, but this is a great start.