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.

Trapster relies on its users to compute a confidence level for each warning. You can hit a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down based on whether any given warning turned out to be true or not. This is then aggregated and displayed. So you’ll see a warning for an intersection with a confidence level of “High” or “Low,” depending on how reliably a trap was detected there. Each warning comes with a color coded icon, so everything is clear right on the map. Everything, including notifications, is fully customizable. This is a powerful and useful tool and definitely raises the game in terms of bringing superior and fundamentally useful functions to your Palm Pre.

You’ll also find a useful statistics section that lets you review your game hole-by-hole. There are already thousands of courses in the online database that Golf Caddie relies on and you can download the courses locally on to your Palm Pre which is much better on battery life than connecting to the server every time you go to your favorite course. The interface is simple and effective. Overall, this app is definitely on par with GolfPinFinder and both are well worth trying out to see which suits your needs better.

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.

Intersection lets you configure a list of favorites to whom you can broadcast the message with your intersection. The other option is to send it to all your contacts (yikes!). There’s currently no way to group favorites (“Work”, “Social”, etc.), and that may cramp your use of the app a little bit. The accuracy of the intersection discovery seems to be spot-on. You can also use it to send address reminders or notes to yourself. This Palm Pre app is simple, but covers such a frequently encountered scenario that it’s well worth having on your Pre.

Adding new status messages is a breeze and the first thing you’ll see whenever you launch the app is a text field to update your status. You can actively poll your Facebook account for updates. Notifications show up like all other WebOS notifications and they happen in the background even when the app isn’t running. The interface is simple and functional, with large friendly buttons and text. The ability to manipulate photos from within the Pre’s native environment is quite impressive. FriendsFlow is an impressive Facebook client with a lot of potential to become the leader in what should be a pretty competitive space.

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 fast and responsive with the number crunching happening with no noticeable delays. There are currently just more than 20 or so tests in MediPDA in three separate categories. Since the app is open-source, it’s likely that several new tests will be added moving forward. While this app will not be particularly useful for the casual Palm Pre user, it helps maintain Palm’s dominance in the medical community. If you’re a practicing member of the medical community, this app will come in handy when you have to perform basic tests and calculations.

The snippet entry view has some interesting elements: you can automatically enter today’s date and current time with a simple tap on the relevant option. This lets you tag your snippets by date and time . You can also add configurable variables to your snippets easily. Existing snippets can be edited by tapping on the snippet icon to the right of the title. There is no search or other way to filter your existing snippets, which is odd given that you’d probably want to search snippets by date or custom tags. Overall, the purpose behind the app is a little confusing and the functionality is a mix of a paste-board utility and a note-taking app.