PALM Centro Quad-band Smartphone – Unlocked
by admin on Mar.11, 2010, under Palm
- Display – 320×320 pixel transflective color touch screen, supports 16-bit color (up to 65K colors)
- Radio – GSM/GPRS/EDGE class 10 radio, quad band world phone (850/900/1800/1900MHz)
- Platform – Palm OS by ACCESS 5.4.9
- Bluetooth v1.2
- Memory – up to 64MB available user storage
Product Description
The Palm Centro Smartphone gives you voice, chat-style messaging, email and web, along with a color touch screen and even a full keyboard. So you can say L8R to those tricky keys on your cell phone. All of this in a phone that’s a whole lot smaller than you think, which means you can take Centro anywhere and keep up with friends in every way possible. Camera 1.3 megapixels with 2x digital zoom and video capture Battery – removable 1150mAh, lithium-ion Up to … More >>
March 11th, 2010 on 12:56 pm
The phone has two severe hardware problems:
1. Freezes often on incoming calls – often needs reset to work
2. Resets on its own especially during writing SMSs
Problem 1 has been on the net for at least 13 months with no solution from Palm
Rating: 1 / 5
March 11th, 2010 on 2:29 pm
When I bought this phone my main concern was the keyboard (I have experienced the 650 so knew about the good quality), but although the keyboard is “compressed” I can easily tap all the letters with minimum to cero problems.
Also, all of my friends could (it takes just a little practice, some times a little patience also).
The best thing is all the applications available that I can easily install in this phone.
It never resets, never gets frozen.
I can just give it a: two thumbs up!
Rating: 5 / 5
March 11th, 2010 on 4:15 pm
I just bought this Palm Centro a week ago. For now I am impressed with the versatility the phones gives me for making calls, handling contacts and appointments. And cause it’s based on palm OS I installed a couple of apps I used to had in my TX. They work just fine.
I read a couple of reviews where the guys were complaining about locking a freezing. I experienced it a couple of times receiving calls, but cause of my expertise with palm devices, I decided to make a hard reset and voilá!! everything is working just fine for now. I installed callrec (wonderful app that records every call you make), Agendus Pre, BTToggle and a coulpe of games and everything is wonderful.
Pros:
- Very versatile device
- Sound is good
- Good speaker
- Handful of useful apps on the market
- Basic apps very useful for starters (agenda, contacts, voice dial, Calc, Documents to Go, Pocket tunes, voice recorder)
- Voice command that lets you make a lot of things like calling contacts (you say the name of the contact and it understands it very good), opening apps. Very cool feature.
- Qwerty keyboard feels fine, but not for big hands, my hands are a little big and I can use it just fine.
- Bluetooth
- micro sd slot
- Good stuff for your money
Cons:
- Plastic pen, feels a little fragile (I already ordered a metal pen for 1$)
- Back cover feels little loose when holding the phone. Makes a little noise when you press it too hard. This factor does not interfere with phone functions.
- Battery life not so good, I can estimate a 4-5 day in standby mode. In constant use, two days top.
- No wifi (should this be a con?)
That’s what I can say. So far I am satisfied with this smartphone (really smart I think). I give it 4 stars.
Rating: 4 / 5
March 11th, 2010 on 4:34 pm
maybe that’s how long phones are lasting these days but it’s not right. I only use about 250 minutes a month and have taken excellent care of it. It’s always in a case when not in use and it’s never been dropped. For the past few weeks the phone has gone mute a handful of times and now it’s frozen.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 11th, 2010 on 6:48 pm
i bought this device due to the database capability where i could copy and paste into the notes field.
but the software crashes often and i could not re import the backed up file.
there is virtually no tech support and the knowledge base is non existance.
the sync locked up and i could not get it back up until i disconnected the battery for a few days.
i got it to sync back to the PC software database. i will have to look for an alternative.
Rating: 2 / 5