Here’s our coverage of D7. Jon Rubenstein and Roger McNamee live on stage with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Its bottom to top as we updated live.

Info on:

The Amazon Store
ITunes Synching
App Store
Twitter Integration
Universal Search
Shortages
OTA Updates
SDK
GSM
Verizon

On Competition

Roger: This is really exciting, and fun. It’s a cool product. If I were RIM or Apple, I wouldn’t worry about it. In America you’re not going to pay so much of a premium to get a smartphone that you can justify not getting one.

How laissez faire!

“Will advance Active Sync features by present in the Pre?”

Jon: We have a variety of those features. We’ll have remote wipe, address lookup.

GSM?

Jon: In a few months

Verizon?

Jon: We love Sprint, and they’re our launch partner. It’s flattering that AT&T and Verizon want it. I can’t comment on unannounced relationships. But Bell Mobility is getting it in Canada.

How Many Pres? Where? Shortages? Arrggghhhhh

Kara: Okay, so one more question. How many of these will be available?

Walt: Dan Hesse is saying there will be shortages. Are people really going to be waiting in line, will there be shortages? By the way, Best Buy will have an instant rebate on this phone, but sources are saying there might not be many… is that true?

Jon: We are in full production. We’re shipping lots of devices. I suspect because of the demand that there will be shortages.

Roger: There is a very steep production run.

Walt: And will there be an express line for iPhone customers?

Roger: Of course, the line wraps around uranus.

Where the fudge is the SDK?????

Jon: We wanted to take baby steps. We gave it to 25 devs. Now it’s hundreds. And there are 1000’s waiting in the queue.

Walt: But why? If this is so easy to develop for? Why take baby steps?

Roger: We have to take this one step at a time. You have to prioritize. The store and SDK, we have to get these things right. We don’t want to push it out so it’s close to right.

Walt: So when will the SDK be openly available?

Jon: Over the next few months we’ll be releasing the open SDK. Yes it’s based on web standards, but the SDK is ours.

OTA Updates for webOS

Jon: We built OTA updates into webOS, so we can push an update out to devices. We can add something, fix bugs… we don’t have to wait for a long period.

Palm Tablet?

Jon: Our focus right now is smartphones.

On the Female Market

Roger: That market is underserved. There has only been a single print ad for BlackBerrys aimed at women.

Roger: “The Palm Pre has a Different Feel”

Touch Keyboard on webOS

Walt: Is there an app developer that could put a virtual keyboard on this?

Jon: I don’t know why you’d want to, nothing’s stopping them.

Roger: Well, if you have four hands.

Universal Search

Roger: The whole thing is a browser.

Roger: The idea is, when it doubt, just type.

Twitter Integration – Who knew? Oh yeah we did.

Palm webOS App Store – 12 apps in the store at launch. More to follow at, you guessed it, 4:20. Uggggghhhhhhhh gnnuuuuugggss.

Fandango App

ITunes Synching – Rumors were sound

The Palm Pre shows up as an iPod. The Pre mounts as mass storage, so you can presumably import songs from the USB mounted drive to iTunes, and obviously you can manage the songs from iTunes to the Pre.

Apparently Rubenstein hasn’t yet got Apple’s blessing but when asked whther they’d be open to it he said “I can’t see why they wouldn’t be.”

The Amazon Store

Images and info via: Gizmodo and Engadget