GSM Palm Centro Hands On Report

Email, SMS but no IM?

Personally, i still wouldnt mind shifting to Sprint because of the data connection. EVDO virtually eliminates your need for Wifi.

Y'know, this is actually the first time since the Treo 650 that Palm's had the "same" device offered in both CDMA & GSM versions. So the CDMA version has in its favor EVDO & the IM app while the GSM version looks to have standard voice dialing, the improved phone app from the 680, and (presumably) better battery life in its favor? It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

Palmdoc, did you happen to notice if the GSM Centro had ~66mb of total usable memory?

P.S. I'm also going out go ahead now and predict that the GSM Centro will be Palm's only Garnet-based device in 2008. It'll also be their FINAL Garnet-based product IMO.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

[BTW - the T-mobile reference was about 5/6s of the way in]

== "...We spend more of our resources on how do we
== drive that relationship with ... with, a deeper relationship
== with, Orange, or T-Mobile, or..."
]

November 6th presentation:

-- http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/conflobby.zhtml?ticker=PALM&item_id=1681809

http://d.smugmug.com/photos/163523946-M.jpg

It's certainly not Ben Combee!!

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

Anyone know who this guy is alongside the Hawk and Ed C?

But seriously, every time I look at the thing, I wish that was the form factor for the ASUS Eee. Too bad.


Thinking about Vista? Think again: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
Want an alternative? Try this: http://www.ubuntu.com/ or http://www.mepis.org/

-- http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=04&kc=12924&oc=BQPRIBF

Now.

For about ONE THIRD the cost of a Fooleo you can get this!

-- http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/doorbusting-toshiba-a135-for-only-229-you-know-when/

BTW, the Kindle is perhaps the most hideous looking piece of electronic gear I've laid eyes on since the Audrey! What a huge atrocity! The only thing it has going for it, IMO, is the no-contract cellular connection (brilliant!). But to have an SD slot that doesn't support SDHC? Hah! Sony's 2nd generation reader will hopefully eat this thing for lunch. Who's going to lug around a Kindle when traveling, for example?

I said years ago that Palm could have introduced an oversized m500 type thing. Superb quality 320x480 greyscale screen, onboard storage + SD slot. Some kind of E-Reader store integration to Palm Desktop. It's far too late for such a beast now, of course, but this just shows how Palm was for once actually quite ahead of the rest of the market with their PeanutPress/E-Reader multi-platform software/store.

P.S. I'm absolutely delighted to see "real" PCs from "real" companies dropping so fast. $400 for a dual-core, DVD burnin' laptop w/ a gig of RAM? That thing will fly with XP! Sure, a huge brick like that Dell isn't a Fooleo or EeePC competitor directly, but it still has a trickle-down effect for those of us looking to get a new higher-end Wintel machine.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P