The new update for webOS was accidentally leaked yesterday, and apparently the leak came from Palm itself. A few forum members overs at PreCentral Forums used webOS Doctor (Build Sprint.100.166 08/30/09 08:03 – which is no longer available) to reset their factory settings and the phone automatically installed the new version 1.2 of Palm mobile operating system.

New features include:

- Ability to enter your account details into the app catalog -  which will allow of the monetization of future apps in the store. So we can expect priced apps to be coming fairly soon.

- Possible improved copy & paste action with a ‘Select All’ tab under the edit menu.

- Type to find contacts and subjects within email app. However email search is still not included in Universal Search.

- Ability to save images form browser

Copies of the update are around on the web but apparently installing can cause some serious issues so best to avoid.