Palm, MotionApps Announce Palm OS Emulator for Pre

At the Web 2.0 conference today, Palm said that third-party developer MotionApps would be releasing a Palm OS emulator for the upcoming Palm Pre smart phone.According to MotionApps' site, the "Classic" emulator makes a Palm OS environment appear either as a 'card' on your Pre, or taking up the while screen. Classic also emulates the standard hard buttons on a Treo 700p. Apps will run about twice as fast on a Pre as on a Treo 700p, the company said.Engadget reports that Classic will use the Pre's mass storage mode to allow users to drag-and-drop PRC application files into the Pre, though the emulator "won't be able to leverage core webOS functionality." Palm told Engadget that Classic wasn't written using the standard WebOS SDK. (Read the full story at Engadget.)Also at the Web 2.0 show, Palm said they were opening up their Mojo SDK to potential developers; anyone who wants to take a look should sign up at their site. Palm is also creating a "cloud service" called "the Mojo messaging service" that lets developers interact with users of their programs.