Good news for Palm Pre owners frustrated at the lack of new apps for their smartphone. Two more have just gone live.
OpenTable is a free restaurant reservation app, while Fliq Bookmarks allows users to transfer their web bookmarks to the handset.
Palm announced them on its official blog, presumably hoping it would send Pre owners into the streets with their dancing shoes on.
Perhaps not. Delays in releasing the Mojo software development kit required to create apps for the webOS platform used by the Pre has led to something of a bottleneck in new launches. In that sense, the two new apps represent progress.
Last week, Palm made the Mojo SDK freely available to developers, although details of its plans to ramp up its submissions and approvals process to actually get apps onto its Palm Store remain cloudy.
Palm's strategy of quality over quantity is a clear differentiator between the Pre and Apple's iPhone, which already has well over 65,000 apps available, and hundreds more every day.
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However, the potential flaw in Palm's approach is that right now, the sheer quantity of new iPhone apps being released means that even if you discount the many low-quality apps, there are still more pearls than on the Pre.
