Response to Palm Centro

Slide 1: Response to the Palm Centro

Slide 2: Positive Quotes Neutral Quotes Negative Quotes The Palm Centro is coming soon to Sprint at We think the Palm Centro is Sprint Nextel has announced Google News only US$99, but James doesn’t think it will going to redefine the value of a the launch of the Palm Centro have much of an impact on the smartphone smartphone. For $100, this is a smart device for USD 99.99, market. remarkable phone. It does available exclusively from Sprint everything the Treo 755p can for a 90-day period. Available in do, and that phone costs two black or red, the device has and a half times as much. voice, text, IM, email, web, contact and calendar capabilities, a full-colour touch screen and full keyboard. Sprint hopes the lightweight device will attract new users to the smartphone market. At a first glance, it's pretty clear that the It feels incredibly solid in the I’ll cover additional features like Google Blog Search $99.99 price point will leave you hungry for hand -- this is a \"phone\" form the camera, all of the included accessories if you sink your teeth into the factor and I had forgotten how software, and whether or not I Sprint-only (for now) phone, as the box has nice standard candybar phones still like the basic design after the bare minimum included -- they don't feel. weeks of use in the next even throw in a cheap set of earbuds. Other installment, which should follow than that it's pretty standard fare. sometime in the next 30 days. The lack of changes to the O.S. is a little The real question everyone has The centro will be available Google Video disappointing. is “how easy to use is the through Sprint in minOctober keyboard?” and I gotta tell ya, for $99. despite what you may have heard, it is surprisingly easy.

Slide 3: Negative Quotes Positive Quotes Neutral Quotes Like Brian said, that keyboard is seriously Three different review samples You can easily setup email in Ask.com Blog tiny. It's much easier to use the screen to showed up. Yay! I have to say VersaMail without using a PC ﾑ a Search type in phone numbers, for instance, and in though that the most exciting scenario I suspect is more general, it's significantly more cramped than a sample was a shiny Red Palm relevant to Centro buyers than Treo. Centro from Sprint. I've only to Treo buyers. had a couple of hours to play around with it, but the Centro is making me consider that maybe we've (I've) been counting Palm out of the mobile phone game entirely too soon... This little phone is a real cutie! And at $99 (with a wireless plan), I think it may prove to be quite popular. Google Maps with traffic and sat view, but NO The screen, although 0.3 of an So far, we don't have any gripes Technorati GPS!!! I was sad when it hit home, and inch smaller in diagonal than about the keyboard. It's much confused: I thought EV-DO chipsets from that of its Treo siblings, is more usable than I expected Qualcomm had a GPS in there by default. accurate at responding to stylus still -- though more testing is taps and renders fonts and needed before I can give it images crisply. It ﾕ s bright and unqualified approval. can be seen both indoors and out, even when in direct sunlight. In fact the quality of the screen really blew us away Well, here's the shiny little Centro, in all its Though it is only hours and I I like the buttons layout, I like BlogPulse slightly-less-than-breathtaking beauty. Truth haven’t really tested it yet I can having everything so nicely be told, the phone doesn't look or feel too bad tell by the devices new slimmer labeled and available, I’m just -- we still don't get the gray stripe through size, much improved screen not quite used to it,but then, I the middle, but what can you do? The quality and quality of build Palm have only had the device for a keyboard is unbelievably tiny, but we'll take it and Sprint will sell a TON of day. where we can get it. The surface of the cherry these. red or metallic black phone is quite slick, and we suspect will go tumbling out of sweaty hands like gang busters.

Slide 4: Negative Quotes Positive Quotes Neutral Quotes I have to say, Palm is headed for trouble. Yes, the The little red Palm Centro just Though we may have been Icerocket Centro is certainly refreshing, but can it really arrived, and we're hoping for a more advanced save Palm? still convinced this $99 Palm device, with a spanking wunderkind will go places. new OS, the Centro is a phone that will pleasantly surprise the right user. The keyboard is absolutely tiny…they’re actually For people thinking of stepping So the Centro is cute, and it has Digg fairly difficult to type with. up to a smartphone, Centro a lot of new software. But would be a good choice since, overall, the Centro is definitely aside from the stylish compact old wine in a new bottle, much design, you can have it for an more so than Palm's Europe- incredibly low price. And since only Treo 500v, which was Centro comes with the Palm OS, released two weeks ago. it offers all of the great organizer functionality that Palm is renowned for.