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PDAFrance has posted a series of possible shots of the Palm Centro. The white colored model seen in this new set of images, match the previously leaked photos seen on PIC. The white Centro is displayed running Palm OS Garnet on the Orange network (GSM) in France.
Palm has previously confirmed that the Centro will debut in the US on Sprint and will feature a new, smaller form-factor, EVDO high speed data and a touch screen display. A separate leaked image of the Centro showed a Black and Sliver model with Sprint branding. A recent rumor report has indicated the Centro could be released by Sprint around October 14th.
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RE: hmm interesting...
RE: hmm interesting...
for me, there is 0.0000000000000000000001% chance of buying a locked carrier controlled device. No thank you.
RE: hmm interesting...
Still hate the colour, but it definitely looks nicer when not viewed in BlurVision.
RE: hmm interesting...
This would allow the phone to be really "short" when closed. Then call and answer via touch screen?
Just the opposite with respect to the current trend of "sliding keyboard" phones.
BUT Probably it is only a visual trick of the picture.
If it turns out that this feature is real, we will see again half of the people loving it and the other half hating it...
...and another half complaining for the keyboard size!! ;-)
RE: hmm interesting...
http://www.patentdebate.com/PATAPP/20060...
Also the picture has a form factor as Palm Centro and also Plam in Europe launch speaks of Full Keyboard. We will see
PALMSTYLE
RE: hmm interesting...
sorry correct link
PALMSTYLE
RE: hmm interesting...
If it did slide the top and bottom pieces would not mate up flush and there would be a big gap in the back which wouldn't make much sense, at least to me...
RE: i like what i see so far
Seriously, this thing looks downright primitive. I might have been impressed by something like this ten years ago, but in today's smartphone market with Nokia and (total newcomer) Apple producing really nice smartphone interfaces and form factors, this is kinda sad.
Palm has some catching up to do and this isn't even close to where they should be going.
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In the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?"
Sort of looks like the iPaq 914
a Windows Mobile smartphone with a 3-megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi, and HSDPA support.
USR Palm Pilot 1000 --> Palm Pilot Professional --> TRG SuperPilot --> Palm IIIc --> Palm V --> Palm M505 --> Palm M515 --> Tungsten T|2 --> Treo 600 --> LifeDrive --> iPhone
This must be the Palm iPhone killer
Hope you enjoyed your days in the sun Apple. Because its game over for you now.
With Centro eating up your iPhone business and Foleo killing of your laptop line, its 1996 all over again.
RE: This must be the Palm iPhone killer
RE: This must be the Palm iPhone killer
Once I read an article on PIC linking to a foleo video, but I couldn't play the video on the linux computer I was using at a sandwich shop because the video asked for windows media player. When you think of the hefty files being tossed back and forth in business emails, anything I carry around better be able to handle big attachments of any flavor. You hear me Benhamou? Oh, I forgot, he quit yesterday. He was cancelled at the last moment.
Oh well, any of youz guyz plz listen up: My T|C is getting old. Please come out with a replacement. Thanks...
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David
RE: This must be the Palm iPhone killer
This seals the deal...
My encrypted password database is the one and only reason I'm still using my Palm. I stopped using it for calendar and contacts years ago (since the PIM apps are ridiculously primitive in their basic functionality, especially the address book which apparently only Next and Apple have ever gotten right -- only five phone numbers/email addresses per contact? Nonsense). I stopped using it for viewing documents and ebooks years ago (the prolific availability of real computers and USB key drives making that function obsolete for me). I stopped using it for any form of entertainment years ago (I have an iPod and a DS, and I don't even play games much anymore). I stopped using my Palm for everything I once relied on it for years ago.
The only exception is secure password management that syncs with the desktop. That's the one and only reason I still use a Palm for anything at all. It's the only reason I still charge the battery or plug it into my USB hub. That's it. Once that application is available on the iPhone/iPod Touch, my Palm goes into the recycle bin, and there's now way I'm buying a Centro or any of the other craptacular product offerings Palm has been "hinting" at lately.
It's amazing that Apple is basically beating Palm at their own game these days. Palm once dominated the portable handheld market primarily on the strength of their simple interface and the way they distanced themselves from MS's strategy of trying to port the desktop experience to the palmtop form factor. The strength of Palm OS lie in it's usability and openness. Apple hasn't figured out the openness part (yet. I suspect a devkit is still forthcoming, though they may request the ability to vet any program that gets released to assure it meets their standards), but they've definitely trounced Palm in the usability realm. I used to love my Palm devices, they worked wonders for me... five years ago. Now the whole lineup boils down to one feature for me, and I suspect that alternatives will soon be available (several in development already). So long Palm.
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In the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?"
RE: This seals the deal...
The only exception is secure password management that syncs with the desktop. That's the one and only reason I still use a Palm for anything at all. It's the only reason I still charge the battery or plug it into my USB hub.
That describes my situation exactly. I can handle web apps for things I infrequently use or access, but I just don't want to keep my collection of passwords to *everything in my life* on the internet. I don't even need it to sync to the desktop.
USR Palm Pilot 1000 --> Palm Pilot Professional --> TRG SuperPilot --> Palm IIIc --> Palm V --> Palm M505 --> Palm M515 --> Tungsten T|2 --> Treo 600 --> LifeDrive --> iPhone
RE: This seals the deal...
Then when I "downgraded" to a 700p I honestly found quite a lot of use in internet-anywhere and in mobile web/e-mail apps....but the tradeoff was a severe reduction in both game playing and document/media viewing.
I do agree that the 5 phone number/email addresses for each contact is frustratingly limited. Many of my colleagues and work acquaintences give me their work & home addresses/number as well as 2 or 3 e-mail addresses. This all should have been (ideally) remedied in the OS 4 to OS5 transition or at least during the big OS 5.2 with the "new" PIM apps & fields appeared on the T3 in 2003.
Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P
RE: This seals the deal...
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hmm interesting...
Other criteria needed to be a killer device:
- OLED
- 3.5mm
- touchscreen
- unlocked
- I am sick of the Treo brand name - harbors too many memories of ill will.