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Palm Pre release Date, Storm get’s an upgrade, & Waffle Wednesdays?

It’s Monday again, let’s take a look back at some of the major mobile milestones of the last week in mobile:

TGDaily reported that rumors of internal memo’s circulating at Palm and Sprint are stating a preliminary launch date for the Palm Pre of May 17th, though with the possibility of being pushed back to June 29th, if Palm can’t deliver enough units in time. The Palm Pre, announced at this years CES, is the first device using Palm’s new WebOS, a radically new and different UI than seen in previous Palm devices.

Joystiq also reported rumors of Microsoft somehow bringing the popular Halo franchise to Windows Mobile, citing a job posting over at job hunting supersite, Careerbuilder. With most new phones that are being designed for Windows Mobile 6.5 and 7, and starting to show 3d Graphics Chipsets from the likes of ATI and Nvidia, could I picture myself driving a warthog and fighting off the Covenant on the morning train ride to work? You betcha.

Blackberry Storm users got a new Firmware update, fixing numerous stability problems and bugs on the device, as well as adding new features like an on screen keyboard, and more.

Also out of the Microsoft camp, new details on the upcoming ZuneHD were released by WMPowerUser, including some various pictures and details. Why is this mobile related? Because it seems that the new Zune HD will be possibly running a copy of Windows Mobile 7, which makes sense based on recent rumors of some of the zune team and windows mobile team being merged together internally recently. Will we start seeing new ZuneHD Phones? Time will tell.

In Flexilis news, on Wednesday, we had our usual Waffle Wednesday, but also released the 6th Iteration of Flexilis Beta, details of which can be found by clicking HERE.

One of our Engineers, Anthony Lineberry, also spoke about Linux Security at BlackHat Europe last week, to much acclaim.

On Twitter, we also asked everyone, “what’s the biggest question you’ve always wanted to know the answer to about mobile or mobile security?” We’d still love to hear all of your questions and thoughts on this, so please reply in the comments, or if you’re on twitter, send @flexilis a reply!