Palm Taps Inventec to Manufacture Centro

Posted By: Ryan Kairer Monday, September 10, 2007 9:56:53 AM

Digitimes is citing a source in the Chinese-language newspaper Commercial Times that claims Palm has made a deal with Taiwan-based Inventec Appliances to produce the upcoming Palm Centro smartphone with volume shipments to begin soon.

The report goes on to state the Centro will feature a CDMA2000 1x EV-DO radio. Palm has previously confirmed that the Centro will debut on Sprint in the US sometime this fall. It sports a slimmer design and still retains the touch-screen and full keyboard. Prior rumor reports mention an October 14th release and a $99 price point for the new model.

The Digitimes report also claims that Palm has also subcontracted a separate new CDMA2000 smartphone to be launched in 2008 to Chi Mei Communication Systems (CMCS) on an ODM basis.

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Uh-oh...

Gazpacho @ 9/10/2007 3:38:32 PM #

Palm stops designing and starts mass-purchasing frozen, microwavable Taiwanese Treo-models, and will be serving them with a nice Treo and/or Centro-brandname to go.

Would you like to have fries with that?

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RE: Uh-oh...

jca666us @ 9/10/2007 7:45:05 PM #

Hope somebody's QC'ing these future trainwrecks.

RE: Uh-oh...

DarthRepublican @ 9/11/2007 12:22:37 AM #

Hasn't Inventec been building Palm devices for a while now? I seem to recall that Palm also contracted them to build the 755 series Treos. And before that they had HTC building their phones.