Owners of Verizon’s Treo 755p will be happy to hear that they can now get the latest firmware update for their phones.

Though there aren’t many details regarding the latest firmware update, which Palm describes as a “tune-up”, this latest firmware supposedly improves the phone application, stability and device usability. It probably wouldn’t hurt to give it a try, after all, everybody wants their phone to have the latest updates.

It appears that there are more “Treo 800” pictures floating around the internet again. With the amount of fakes being passed off as originals, and the fact that this picture is rather blurry, users will probably have to take this picture with a pinch of salt. Still, it’s worth checking out.

Palm will be offering users an unlocked Centro from now on, allowing users to chose whatever network they please. The unlocked version will support quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), though there is no 3G connectivity. Other specifications will be the same as the AT&T version, but will sport a gray number pad pad instead of green, and will be retailing for $299.

It looks like the Treo 800w has finally gotten a launch date with Sprint. Users should be able to get their hands on Palm's latest baby on July 13th, which will be powered by Windows Mobile 6.1, and include EVDO Rev. A, WiFi, and GPS. The Treo 800w should be going for $249.99 under a 2-year contract, or $599.99 to buy the handset outright.

The Official Palm Blog has mentioned that Windows has released a beta version of their SideShow for Treo devices running Windows Mobile 5 or 6 under the hood.

SideShow is a cool application that allows users to use their smartphone as another display device to their computer and control its applications such as Windows Media Player, PowerPoint and others via bluetooth. Other interesting functions would include controlling a PowerPoint presentation while viewing the speaker notes, or using it as a remote control for Windows Media Player.

Though it isn’t available on US carriers yet, it looks like the Palm Centro will be making its Canadian debut on Rogers. Rogers’ customers will be able to get their hands on it now for $199 with a three-year plan and a minimum $45 monthly service fee. New customers will have to shell out $299 and go over some contract details.

Palm OS users who might have been drooling over the iPhone interface for some time now have a way to pretty up their launcher to look like the iPhone interface. This is achievable via TouchLauncher, which is a new Palm OS launcher app that can make users Treo or Centro (along with older Palm PDA’s) look and feel much like the iPhone.

Users will be able to start their applications in the “iPhone manner”, and also scroll between multiple screens with their finger, and get the number of unread text messages appearing as part of the SMS icon. TouchLauncher also supports iconsets and wallpapers, rearrangement of applications in a drag-and-drop fashion, categorization and renaming of applications, addition of web and contact links and more.

At $6.99, it’s fairly cheap, and a simple way to make a Palm look like an iPhone. So if Palm users are envious of iPhone users because of the interface, hopefully this will help ease their envy.

Treo 755p users on Alltel have got a new firmware to play with. The new 1.03 version of the firmware has been officially launched, though there aren’t many details regarding the changes. Palm is currently saying that it resolves a “reset issue” under “specific and rare conditions” without giving details as to what those conditions are.

So if users have been experiencing spontaneous resets during an eclipse, perhaps it’s time for a firmware update.

Verizon has as expected, announced their Palm Centro today, which results in the top three US carriers carrying the Centro, which Palm says is “off to the strongest start of any smartphone in Palm’s history”.

The Centro is also the first Palm phone that is eligible for Verizon’s “unlimited E-mail and Web for Smartphone” plan, which is going for $29.99. After all the juicy rebates and discounts, Verizon’s version will cost the same $99 (on contract) as those from Sprint and AT&T.

Facebook lovers out there rejoice, there is now a native Facebook application for the PalmOS. The application can be downloaded at http://go.palm.com/facebook or over the air at http://mobile.palm.com/facebook. The Palm Centro has been rather popular with the youth market, even though it didn’t have the killer Facebook app. Palm users probably always wished they were in the same boat with Blackberry users who have a native Facebook app, and iPhone users who have a iPhone-specific version of Facebook, but Palm users can heave a sigh of relief.

Some of the cool features of this new app are:

• Send and receive Facebook messages, and respond to friend requests.
• Capture video using your smartphone and post it to your Facebook profile.
• View and post photos, right from your smartphone, or snap and send off new ones.
• Receive News Feeds, change your status, and get friends’ status updates on the go.
• Browse friends’ profiles, post messages to their wall, and send friend requests or search for old friends through Facebook.
• Open your Contacts and dial your friends with just one touch.

Palm handset users haven’t been too lucky with the selection of portable chargers that support Palm’s Multi-Connector, until now. Tech Center Labs has come up with their Tiny Emergency FuelCell, which accepts a single AA battery and enables power to be passed along to Centro’s and any other Palm / Treo device with that proprietary connector.

The best part is that this pocket-friendly device is going for just $9.95, or $10.95 with the bundled battery.

There must be some kind of mistake here, as the information coming out from Verizon at this moment seems to indicate that the Centro will be going for a whopping $269.99 before a $70 mail-in-rebate when it hits the retail channels next Friday.

Considering Sprint’s Centro was going for just $99, this seems a more than a little extreme. Hopefully this pricing is just a technical glitch of some sort.