Palm teases us with Palm Centro – don’t you wish there were more of you?
By Will Park on Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 11:52 AM PST In Announcements, Palm, Palm OS, Sprint
Palm’s newest smartphone offering is also their smallest – of course we’re talking about the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Centro. The smartphone maker has taken the wraps off its Palm Centro teaser site, with the tag-line “Do you wish there were more of you?”
It looks like Palm is banking on the entry-level demographic that’s looking to boost their productivity as if there were indeed more than one of them. The teaser site shows the Palm Centro clad in Candy Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Red. The Centro will be toting features like a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, microSD card, instant messaging support, and an updated Palm OS (remember, this is an entry-level device, and as such will get nothing more than an entry-level OS). The Palm Centro takes design cues from the recently released Palm Treo 500v, but sports a narrower profile and smaller QWERTY keyboard.
Look for Palm to drop the Palm Centro on October 14 for a buck shy of $100 (contract and rebate required, of course).
It’s just too bad Palm doesn’t move on from their antiquated Palm OS – which is, by itself, a deal killer for us (update be damned). Come on Palm, let’s just kill Palm OS and go with Windows Mobile, or at least get your new Linux-based OS out of the R&D labs AFAP (as fast as possible).
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I’d still prefer Palm OS over Windows Mobile–which seems to crash every other day. :p
Shilling for Microsoft? There are too many freeware apps for the Palm OS to ever give up on it and go with a beast like Windows Mobile.
I am interested in this because it is Palm OS. Would like to be able to use it with t-mobile. Only other nice to have would be wifi