Palm (a.k.a HP) Really Wants Your Apps Plus a Wishlist

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Palm/HP is giving away $1 million in goodies for developers to port their apps over to webOS. I'm not going to pretend I'm not biased. I have a Palm Pre and I love my phone nearly as much as my own children.

Head over to Palm's development site for details.

My hopes for HP's involvement with webOS development are high. My wife has an Android phone and it's not bad but it certainly doesn't have the usability of my Pre. However, since I've had it, a few things are lacking:

No voice dial. By this point, it's silly it hasn't been implemented yet. So many pedestrians are needlessly exposed to me finding numbers by hand. Just saying.
No support for appointments received in email via POP or IMAP. Only Exchange appointments actually work. Appointments received in other mail services result in an error message. Come on dudes!
No basic photo editing. Before I upload any photo to any online service, I should be able to perform basic cropping and resizing.
Basic file management. I want to be able to rename files and organize them without connecting to a PC.
Audible still hasn't created a client for the Pre. I've been an Audible customer for years and I'm about to give up on them altogether.
4G. Duh.

With layoffs pending at Palm and HP admitting phones are their highest priority for webOS, I probably won't get my wishes. I will also probably end up on an HTC EVO, which is a great phone, but it's still Andriod-based and so many things about webOS have spoiled me.