Bell Prepping for Palm Centro Sales in Early February
By James Falconer on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 at 8:30 AM PST In Bell Mobility, Palm
As each passing day goes by I keep wondering why anyone would want a Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Centro or even the new-ish Treo Pro over the Pre. Only ‘excuse’ I will accept at this point is they need their Palm hit from either the Centro of the Pro to tide them over till the Pre is launched. Fair enough I say. Still… I’d hold on to my monies and pick up the Pre when I had the chance.
To go along with the above mini-rant, it looks like the folks at Bell Canada have started to gear up for an impending Palm Centro launch. I can see the lineups from… wait… Nevermind. Dummy Centros have arrived at Bell stores, and the device is set to launch on February 2nd. A minimum $45 voice/data plan will be required, and some special promo pricing is set at the following:
- 3-year contract: $49.95
- 2-year contract: $249.95
- 1-year contract: $349.95
- month-to-month: $399.95
My advice? Save the cash… and put it towards the Pre when it comes!
[Via: MobileSyrup]
No idea why anyone would want a centro…I am still using a 650 and it never even crossed my mind to buy a baby treo! When I say I am using a 650, I only mean when it is working which is still about 88% of the time.
So why am I going to buy the treo pro? Cuase it is second gen from treo 800w which was a dog. So I will buy a pro, would have last Sunday if they actually released the darn thing, while I wait for second gen of treo pre and I will be upgrade eligible from my treo pro. Of course now that I have published my purchase plan Sprint and Palm will change the rules and I will simply get rid of my cell phone altogether and go back to using smoke signals and google talk.
I’ve zero interest in the Pre, if I wanted an iPhone I’d buy the real thing. Why buy a Treo/Centro?
1)I have a 680 with about 40 apps most of which only exist as PalmOS apps.
2)I can run the phone with one hand, without looking at it.
When the Pre does those two, I’ll have a look.