Palm Shows Off $100 Centro Smart-phone
September 28, 2007
Boston (dbTechno) - Palm is taking a different direction with their next smart-phone as they have unveiled a $100 smart-phone named the Centro.
The Centro is a huge step for Palm as they try to enter the mass-market and become the least-expensive smart-phone on the market today.
The Centro is going to be running on the same Palm operating system which is used by the Treo and will also have a color touch screen, full keyboard, as well as access to e-mail and web surfing.
The smart-phone is going to be an exclusive to Sprint for a period of 3 months. It will be available for $100 with a $100 mail-in-rebate when customers sign up for a two-year service agreement with a data acess plan above $25/month.
With the announcement, the Palm stock rose by $1.02 or 6.6% which is great news for the company.
With competition from Apple with their expensive iPhone as well as from Motorola with the Q and Nokia, Palm had to do something different and they have definitely done so.
It will be launching next month and should be a huge hit for Sprint and Palm.
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too bad sprint is the worst, and it’s up against some shitty competition as it it…
Finally this is the phone I’ve been waiting for. I love my Treo 90 but it’s not a phone.
I’ve never been able to justify a Treo phone purchase. But $99 and I’m in.
Future of internet lies with peer to peer cell phone connections or at least non expensive based system.
“The smart-phone is going to be an exclusive to Sprint for a period of 3 months.”
I’ll defiantly look at this phone after the 3 months has expired – I enjoy my Cingular service, but an iPhone? Nope.
Front page article in the Pioneer Press (Saint Paul, Mn.) about the State of Minnesota suing Sprint over “improperly extending consumer contracts”. The article dealt with the allegations that Sprint extended costumer contracts “without their (consumer) consent” or without making the consumer being aware of the change. CONSUMER BEWARE
Yeah! I like Sprint and have been with them for years, but their phone choices have often fallen behind other carriers. I’d been shopping for a new phone and was looking at other companies because I did not like the choices I had. This new Palm fills the bill.
the phone sounds great …too bad sprint phone service is horrible.
i want to buy this thing, now!