All you Palm Pre owners who have been straving for some good quality Apps and Games, here is some good news. Palm has finally, finally started putting in some paid apps in to its Apps Catalog.

Until now, this store only allowed free software, limiting professional developers interest in using it. And the first lucky app is a game called Air Hockey from Acceleroto which sells for $1.99. This is the same company behind the popular Air Hockey game for the iPhone.

Surprisingly most of the Apps are expensive and there are not many around $0.99 mark given that the Apps Catalog is miniscule as compared to the AppStore which has already crossed 2 billion downloads.

More than a dozen apps have been added today:

• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire from Capcom Interactive, $4.99.
• BlockDrop by Daniel Farina, $4.99.
• Weatherbug Elite hits for $1.99, live, local maps from WeatherBug - configurable background updates too.
• GolfPinFinder at $9.99, another homebrew graduate!
• Card Ace: Hold ‘Em. Free Online Texas Hold ‘em from Self Aware Games, syncs your profile with Word Ace.
• GetMeVino! Lite, Free Wine Info app
• Mezzoman, Free "Meet in the Middle" app for finding friends, from Mezzoman Studios
• Polar Bowling, Free game
• Word Whirl Lite, Free word game
• Work Out Tracker Trial, Free work out tracking app
• Dungeon Quest, a free fantasy-themed RPG complete with Facebook Connect.
• Stitcher Podcast Radio lands for free, bringing streaming podcast fun to the mix.
• Checkers Pro, from Kense of Keen Studios, rolling in at $0.99.
• Mine Search, $0.99 app.
• Here I am, GeezerNetwork’s $.99 app for texting your location to a friend
• Word Whirl, the full version of sacherjj’s Word Whirl Lite
• FriendsFlow, a $1.99 Facebook Feed app
• JogStats, $4.99 from Rusty Apps, a GPS exercise tracker.
• Lottery Generator, $.99 app from Ovlite for making random numbers
• Remote from Hobbyist Software, a $4.95 app for controlling iTunes
• VLC Remote, a $4.95 app, also from Hobbyist, for controlling VLC
• Work Out Tracker, the full, $3.99 version of the lite version.
• Go To Tool, $7.49
• NewsRoom, $4.99 news app, covers tech, gossip, sports, etc and caches on-device.
• Mezzoman, $0.99, like Mezzoman - Free, finds the place you want to go between you and your friend, or with this version, two friends (i.e. three people).
• Wobble Words, at $4.99 from Gobico Games, is a cross between Boggle, Tetris, and Scrabble.
• Classic finally gets its update: Hotsync over Bluetooth or WiFi. Free.
• Dungeon Quest 50 Gems, $4.99 nets you 50 gems for your Dungeon Quest character.

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