Palm Centro Now Available for Pre-Order
The Palm.com online store is now taking pre-orders for the Palm Centro smartphone on Sprint. The Centro starts at $99 after rebates and contractual discounts with Sprint plans. Customers will also receive free shipping and a free vehicle power charger (a $29.99 value).
As you're probably aware of by now, the Centro will be exclusive through Sprint in the United States for 90 days and is available in two colors, onyx black and ruby red. The Centro features a trimmer slimmed down design making it the smallest Palm OS phone to date. You can read more here, or check out our photo preview.
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RE: More like $399
- Many people desperately need cell phones.
Result?
Collusion and price gouging.
Only 2 ways to remedy:
- Increased competition.
- Stop buying.
RE: More like $399
- Keep your cell and PDA separate.
- Buy smallest phone w/ BT to bridge with PDA.
- Refuse contracts.
- Buy only unlocked GSM.
- Shop for cheapest plans.
. Separate devices increase your consumer pressure power.
. Also doubles battery life.
. Avoids losing both PDA and cell at same time if one breaks.
. Allows more powerful mobile computing.
. Can upgrade devices separately e.g., when a new OS comes out you don't have to pay for a new phone.
RE: More like $399
Canadian $ is worth more than the USA $.
However,
Treo 680: 399$ USD --- 499$ CAD
RE: More like $399
rpa
Palm Pilot >> Palm Tungsten E user
RE: More like $399
- Keep your cell and PDA separate.
- Buy smallest phone w/ BT to bridge with PDA.
- Refuse contracts.
- Buy only unlocked GSM.
- Dig fallout shelter
- Buy tinfoil hat
- Boil water to remove fluoride
- Gouge out own fillings in case they contain transmitters
- etc
- etc
IIIc -> M105 -> Zire 21 -> Tungsten T2 -> Treo 650
RE: More like $399
As long as people keep paying, carriers and device makers will keep laughing and abusing.
Palm has done its share and now big ole arrogant Jobs is joining the club with his iPhone firmware 'cripple-grade' which just crippled all 3rd party software, re-locked and disabled 100 000 hacked iPhones. THAT is what people like you are buying into.
Keep paying sucker. If you have to suffer to learn.
Unlocked GSM
Palm owner since 3x, now m515, don't want smartphone
RE: Unlocked GSM
I left Sprint a few years ago 2 mos before my contract was up because I broke my phone and didn't want to pay $$ for2 mos. I liked a phone from Cingular as well. When I cancelled the Sprint contract they offered me new phones as well as paying AT&Ts cancellation fee. I'm going to call Sprint this month and see if they'll still do it. Maybe others could do it as well.
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More like $399
I'm with sprint and in a contract. If I want a centro the cost would be $399. For $399, I could get an 8gb iphone, but I have to have handyshopper and handbase. Gadget makers seem to come out with every permutation of device except what I need. They're frustrating me on purpose. They want to force me to carry around my T|C till the end of the universe.
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