The most appropriate way to describe the HP TouchPad right now is to call it a tablet on life support. HP may have declared the end to the TouchPad, but it won’t stop supporting webOS until fourth quarter of this year. Until then, some TouchPad apps are still getting updates. HP will also push out an over-the-air update sometime in the future.

It was not all that long ago when we were celebrating the App Catalog reaching 700,000 downloads and now it has reached that magical one million mark. Of course, as our own JG Mason asked the other day, “Just 7 apps per Palm Pre downloaded is impressive?”

Despite all of the recent hype surrounding the recently released iPhone 3G S, the Palm Pre has also had its share of news. In addition to the recent news about the App Market hitting almost 700,000 downloads already, we have recently seen an update to webOS, an update to Tweed as well as learned the slightly disappointing news about the webOS SDK release.

webOS updated to version 1.0.3

First up in this little Palm Pre bits post is the recent update to webOS, which was updated to version 1.0.3. The update which is coming over-the-air measure in at 13MB and offers a few nice perks such as improvements with Google contacts, the Clock, as well as the Calendar. Below is a full change list;