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According to speculation on PreCentral, one of the biggest dreams on longtime Palm User’s wishlists regarding the upcoming Pre and WebOS may be announced as a reality at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco today.

It seems that during a walk through, Dieter Bohn of PreCentral spotted an icon on the Pre which appears to be an old style Palm Pilot labeled CLASSIC (see the screen cap above).

Bohn speculates this is the long hoped for PalmOS emulation on the Pre, allowing the 500 kajillion Palm applications out there to be run on the new device, as well as anything else that will run WebOS. If that is true, THAT should certainly be a game changer as far as mobile apps are concerned. For one thing, it will immediately bring the Pre up to speed in productivity software, surpassing what is out there for the iPhone at the moment, as well as breathe new life into lots of excellent and already widely used software for such niches as the medical profession and network engineers. This announcement (if real) will certainly take some of the wind out of Apple’s recent Cut and Paste sails.

If Apple and Palm continue to play “one-upmanship” like this all year, we are going to have some impressive phones by 2010. Good for them, good for us, good for the whole freakin’ industry. Game on.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).