Links open in new Browser card views, and YouTube videos will automatically launch the corresponding WebOS app. You can manually refresh the feeds. Thankfully the app is pretty light on battery usage, hopefully additional updates will still maintain this excellent feature. Right now, you can follow your friends’ updates, send out your own, and share photos. Joining and creating groups, chat, and other features are yet to be seen. It’s a functional and well-designed start.

In addition to the full episodes and clips, the app comes with a little “Survivor Guide” where you can see details about the locations and maps of Samoa island. Each of the views are accessible from the homescreen of the app or through control buttons at the bottom of every view. If you’re a fan of Survivor and are looking to engage with the show in more ways, this is a fantastic application that brings in a very wide range of extra features that should enhance your experience of the show. Overall, one of the better-looking apps on the Pre and one that will appeal to a niche audience.

Subscribers to Directv’s SuperFan module have an even higher number of features to play with, including real-time highlights, live announcers and live score updates for every single game. You also get full access to the Red Zone channel. The app is very well designed and presents a wealth of media in a simple and intuitive manner. Data on games and statistics really are uploaded live, with a barely noticeable delay. Streaming video quality is fantastic, but an option to view lower quality or lower resolution video for those on a slower Wi-Fi network or those concerned about battery life would have done wonders. This is one of the best Palm Pre apps currently available, but only works for those with an existing Directv NFL Sunday subscription.

This app remembers your login and password so you won’t have to keep typing them in every time you launch the application. The interface is pretty clean and offers collapsible sections that really help you absorb profile information easily. The search feature is location-aware and allows you to search based on various criteria, including age range, and allows you to limit results to profiles with shared photos only. You can also narrow your search based on distance and other factors. Overall, this is a full-featured networking and dating app on the Palm Pre and the presence of messaging, favorites, and the ability to track connections makes this an excellent complement to the website itself.

The interface is clean and easy-to-use. Playback is smooth and stutter-free for the most part. Unfortunately the app does not remember where you last stopped watching a show, an invaluable feature that should be a must with most streaming video players. With the ability to watch certain live broadcasts, on-demand episodes of some shows, and customized mobile offerings, this is a solid entertainment app for the Palm Pre.

You can sort by featured, popular, rating, and price. You can also simply search the marketplace for titles and authors. The one thing I’d like to see in the next version is the ability to search for words within a book or article. In all other respects, this is a well thought out application that is very easy to use and particularly useful for short, bite-sized reads while flying or traveling the subway. The Shortcovers application is available in the Palm Pre App Catalog now.

You can also see full trailers for movies, with the Pre’s landscape mode coming into its own with this feature. Speed is good, with no obvious stuttering or playback buffering with both Wifi and cellular data connections. Like the Fandango app, this connects seamlessly with your calendar so that when you purchase movie tickets the event is added immediately to your calendar. This is a useful app if you like the social aspects with reviews and more interactive stuff compared to the Fandango application.

You can load music on to the Pre in two ways: First, when the Pre is connected to your computer, the computer simply recognizes it as a mass storage device; you can drag and drop music files into the device this way. The other option is to do it through iTunes, where any DRM-free files can be transferred seamlessly. Either way, your Pre will recognize the file type and pull it into the Music application, so you can organize your music without worrying about where it’s sitting.

Hope you enjoyed this Palm Pre app walkthrough. More to come.