Comments on: Palm Rings In New Year With 1,000th webOS App

...there are too many crap apps, like pretty much everything that Brighthouse Labs has ever put out, cluttering up the App Catalog.
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Screw convergence
Palm III->Visor Deluxe->Visor Platinum->Visor Prism->Tungsten E->Palm LifeDrive->Palm TX->Palm Pre
Visor Pro+VisorPhone->Treo 180g->Treo 270->Treo 600->Treo 680->T-Mobile G1->Palm Pre
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Centro is officially DEAD. A few months ago I noticed the Centro was no longer on the main Palm homepage. You can still bring up the Centro page by doing a Google search but you can no longer order a Centro directly from Palm. For a while Palm was selling the unlocked GSM Centro for $200 (versus the ridiculous $400 they tried to sell the unlocked Sprint Centro for), but I hear they haven't had any Centros in stock for a couple of months now.

Before Christmas Newegg.com was selling unlocked white Centros for around $130 - which is a fair price if you're planning to stick with PalmOS - so I picked one up as a Christmas gift. I thought about getting another Centro as a backup for when my Treo dies, so I called Palm last week and found out that they actually stopped making Centros 6 MONTHS ago. Once the phones currently in the channel are used up, that's it. PalmOS is now abandonware.

WebOS is in its infancy, the Pre is a plasticy piece of crap, the Pixi is crippled, and the PalmOS emulator for WebOS creates more problems than it's worth. Unless you're a longtime PalmOS fan and have a significant investment in PalmOS apps then 2010 looks to be the year to walk away from Palm and move to a new platform.

If you can get a new in box Centro for $100 - $130, then it may be worth buying. Stay FAR away from used Centros from the likes of eBay, though.