The Palm Centro

The phone industry sure knows how to screw Apple around. With Nokia belting Apple for their “anti unlocking” regime, now its Palm’s turn to issue a $99.00 smartphone into the hands of fresh graduates who can’t afford a smartphone. Presenting the Palm Centro – it’s finally come. Available very soon on a 90 day exclusivity with Sprint, the Centro is basically a smaller and more hip Treo. Really interesting too – that this pegs the price of a VERY GOOD smartphone to about a hundred dollars.

Between the iPhone and the Palm Centro, I’m giving my vote to the latter for smartphone of the year. :)

Here are the specs:

Display
320×320 pixel Transflective color touchscreen, supports 16-bit color (up to 65K colors)
Radio
Dual-band CDMA2000 EvDO backward compatible with 1XRTT and IS95
Platform
Palm OS 5.4.9
Bluetooth® Wireless Technology
Version 1.2
Memory
64MB available user storage
Camera
1.3 megapixels with 2x digital zoom and video capture
Battery
Removable 1150mAh, lithium-ion, 3.5 hours talk time, up to 300 hours standby time
Expansion
microSD card (up to 4GB supported)
Connector
Multi-connector
Dimensions
4.22″ (L) x 2.11″ (W) x 0.73″ (D); 4.2 oz
Colors
Ruby and Onyx

Comments

By none

does the palm centro come with bluetooth, internet, the touchscreen stylus, and all of that when you buy it or do you have to pay separate for it.

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By noneedtoknow

yes, zohair, it comes installed with pockettunes deluxe that can play mp3 files

By Zohair

Does the Palm Centro has mp3 player

By Bob Reyes

Can’t wait for it to arrive on Philippine shores. Time to retire my Treo 600.

By Angelica

Palm Centro is smaller than the Treo 700 even though the dimensions are nearly the same. Its smooth and rounded and easy to hold. Came across something similar on Palm Centro at
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1676 days ago

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