We’re in the final stretch of the year’s most anticipated smartphone launch, the Palm Pre. Palm has done a pretty good job in creating and maintaining the hype for the Pre, which is their do-or-die product. Palm just released even more details of their new webOS operating system, at the All Things D conference.

The webOS comes with Palm MediaSync, which allows you to manage and sync the Palm Pre with Apple’s iTunes. Considering most of Palm’s engineering team recently came over from Apple, this is quite a bold feat. Apple might just tweak iTunes to block this feature, so we might see the beginning of a cat-and-mouse game between these companies.

I like the idea of the Universal Search in webOS. Aside from the on-board data, you can search Google, Google Maps and Wikipedia. Palm has now included the ability to search Twitter as well.

Palm’s version of the Apple App Store, called App Catalog, was also demonstrated. App Catalog should be available on Pre phones at launch, although we have yet to hear of how many apps will be offered.

Here’s a video featuring Palm boss Jon Rubinstein and investor Roger McNamee, which was shown at the conference.

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