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Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts:

Browse Palm’s App Catalog online (PhoneScoop) — This idea makes total sense and is probably overdue — you can now browse the Palm Pre App Catalog through the web. Clearly, if you have a Pre, you can just check the catalog on your phone. But what about prospective Pre or Pixi owners? They’re out of luck, or at least they were. Are we getting close to a point where a phone purchase decision is influenced by the available software?

Post iPhone pics on Google Earth (Google Mobile) — I just installed Panoramio on my iPhone and will have to start snapping pics. The app takes your photos and uploads them for the photo layer of Google Earth and Google Maps. My quest to document the visitation of every known WaWa location just became infinitely easier.

Acer Liquid pre-orders start flowing (AndroidGuys) — The Snapdragon-powered, Android-totin’ handset from Acer starts shipping from Exapnsys on November 28th, which is well before the holiday season. If you want to treat yourself to an early gift, you can pre-order now for 380 Euros. Bear in mind that Liquid will come with Android 1.6, although there’s no reason I can think of that it won’t see Android 2.0 in the near future. I’m still on the fence between an Android phone or just an Android handheld without phone capabilities. I have a feeling that once I see for myself how the OS runs on a Snapdragon, I’ll fall on the phone side.