One of the more frustrating aspects of the new Palm Pre is that most developers still haven't been able to get hold of the Pre's Mojo SDK for developing third party apps.  So far, it's only been available to a short list of preferred partners.

Developers' wait will end soon, Palm VP of Global Sales Dave Whalen said at a press event this morning. The public SDK will be coming "very close to launch," he said, though he declined to add whether that meant within weeks of the phone's launch on June 6th.

The Mojo SDK is unusual because it's based on Web-page-design languages such as CSS and Javascript, rather than on traditional hardware programming languages such as C++. Whalen said at the event that the SDK's design would let developers get up to speed very quickly.

For now, developers and users aiming at the Pre can check out the MotionApps Classic emulator, which runs many of the 30,000 existing PalmOS applications on the Pre. We have a full review on PCMag.com, and we're keeping an application compatibility list here on appscout.com.