Give a Holiday Color Palm Centro for Christmas
Posted by Chris Leckness on 11/22/08 in Palm, Sprint
Last month, Palm announced two new colors for their very popular Centro. The Centro has a ton of featured packed into a small, popular form factor and is very, very reasonably priced at $80. The two colors that have been added for the Holidays are Rose and Olive. Check out my photos of the Olive Centro I got.
Who knows, Maybe one out our Sprint Readers could get their hands on this phone December 12th. Hint Hint… Who knows.
Two Million Centro Smartphones Sold
Palm is happy today …. they have sold over 2 million Centro’s and counting!
Clearly the Centro has been a success for those that want more than the traditional mobile phone. Users are upgrading because they want more functionality and the Centro offers that for them. Little things like a low price point of $99 has been a huge factor but there are other key aspects as well including availability. The Centro is now available to consumers in over 25 countries and close to 20 carriers worldwide; in the U.S., Centro is available on the three largest carriers, Sprint, AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
At CES is past January I had the opportunity to try it out for a little while and it was an impressive little device. It was small, fast and was able to perform all those tasks that most folks do easily.
Check out the Centro smartphone here.
Palm Centro Spotted in Black
Posted by Chris Leckness on 03/27/08 in At&t, Palm, Smart Phones
Looks like the affordable Palm Treo will become available in black someday. Now this is based on speculation from the Treo Central posting with a convincing photo, but hey, I don’t see why they wouldn’t. Black goes with everything. Apparently Brian Hart, who writes for Phone Different, an iPhone blog, scored this black Palm Centro at an AT&T store. Wow… Nice leak.
Finally, after much anticipation and salivation, the GSM Black Centro is available at AT&T (here in Salt Lake City, Utah, at least). I was in an AT&T store for another matter (Treo 750) and I casually asked about when they would be seeing a black Centro. My salesperson told me she saw some in the back room! Woooohoooo!
Fortunately I had my “glacier white” Centro with me with all receipts and packaging, so the exchange was painless (well within my 30-day exchange period; I LOVE that policy!). So without further a-do, here is an actual picture of my new black Centro on the counter of the AT&T store (courtesy of the camera on my iPhone).
Source: Treo Central
