Good news for Palm Pre owners and Palm OS app developers!

On Monday, MotionApps announced they simplified the Classic Certification procedure which should speed up the availability of Palm OS apps certified to run on the webOS-based Palm Pre.

Danijela Tomazovic, the marketing manager at MotionApps stated, “We wanted Classic users to get as many Classic Certified apps as possible and to get them as soon as developers test and sign them.”

The Classic Certified Logo serves as a seal of approval letting you know that you can use the Classic Certified application with confidence. Classic will still run apps that are not Certified, but Classic Certified apps will feature the logo now telling you that developer of a particular app tried it and can confirm it works well with Classic.

Watch for an expansion of the MobiHand Classic App catalog at http://classic.mobihand.com.

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With the World Series of Poker (WSOP) starting this week in Las Vegas (drawing 6500 players competing for a piece of a $61 million prize pool and hoping for $8.55 million for the title), the timing seems perfect for special deals on card game apps.

Those of you with a Palm Centro or Treo running Palm OS will find reduced pricing on Aces Texas Hold’em – No Limit, Aces Blackjack, Aces Omaha – No Limit and the Aces Tournament Timer from Concrete Software.  Just $5.99 each.

And if you have a snazzy new Palm Pre, you’ll be happy to know that Aces Texas Hold’em will work on it if you have the MotionApps Classic Palm OS emulator installed.  It is available for purchase from the App Catalog on the Pre.

Another card game that will work on the Palm Pre is BlackJack Deluxe by Deluxeware. It is available for the very special price of $2.99 (usually $12.95) until the end of July.

For those who have Windows Mobile devices, Birdsoft is offering their All-In Hold ‘Em Poker – Tournament Play for the special price of $9.95.

In that same price range, just under $10, you can get many of Concrete Software’s gaming apps such as, Aces Texas Hold’em® – No Limit and Texas Hold’em with Phil Hellmuth.

For the BlackBerry, there are a number of casino-related apps.

Along with Concrete Software’s Aces Texas Hold’em, there is Win Texas Hold’em by Sprite Interactive and Poker Buddy by Origin8 Technologies that is a rich, fully featured poker tournament manager which includes a digital clock for keeping track of your tournament and blind levels while the extensive player list will make it easy to track knockouts, re-buys and add-ons. Plus, you can email your players with automatic tournament reports after the game!

The Poker and gaming apps available through MobiHand are, perhaps, the next best thing to being in Vegas.