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Palm teases us with Palm Centro – don’t you wish there were more of you?

Categories: Announcements, Palm, Palm OS, Sprint
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 11:52 AM

Sprint Palm Centro teaser site launchedPalm’s newest smartphone offering is also their smallest – of course we’re talking about the 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 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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  • Ederic

    I’d still prefer Palm OS over Windows Mobile–which seems to crash every other day. :p

  • David

    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.

  • Scott

    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