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User Submitted Palm Centro Smartphone, Black (Sprint) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-04-06 Awesome Phone & PDA This is simply an excellent phone and pda. It's the perfect size, it's well-made, and it works. I don't care how old the technology is, the Palm software simply works. Why mess with a good thing? I couldn't be happier with this device. Date: 2008-03-30 Expected more from Palm and still let down by Sprint I was excited to see another Palm product for Sprint that was within $100 (with rebates) b/c the other Treos were too expensive for me, a non-biz user. Disappointingly, I immediately had issues with it. 1)The key pad is tiny, not as roomy as the 650-700 Treos (fat finger people beware). 2)The sync option has yet to work correctly for me. I called Sprint PCS tech (no)-support and they basically said it was a software issue. Recommended a few basic things but would not continue to help be beyond a hard reset, which I already tried several times. 3)The response time to the user's touch is annoyingly slow. I have to wait a bit for the Centro to respond to a command before giving it another one (zzzzzzzzz). 4)The one last thing that makes me want to throw this thing up against a brick wall and see it in a million tiny pieces... 3 out of every 5 calls, people have told me they can't hear me clearly, majority have said "you sound fuzzy, can you get on another phone?". To summarize, I expected too much from both Palm & Sprint on this device. I should have known better than to expect anything more than mediocre for something that was made with 2003 Treo600 hardware and Sprint services. Looking to change device and service provider. Date: 2008-03-01 Sluggish, Sprint service is horrible I got a centro to replace my dying treo 600. If I were a new Sprint customer it might have been easier, but since I was already a Sprint customer it was a huge headache trying to get a decent price on the upgrade. The phone itself is ok, but it tends to be slow to respond. I used to accidentally call people because I would touch an on-screen button, wait for a bit, decide that I hadn't pressed hard enough, and try again just as the screen finally changed and a different option appeared under my finger. The camera function is really slow, but the image quality is much better than the 600. The battery door on the back is a bit flimsy but you don't notice that with a case. There are a few things I would liked to have seen Palm improve over the years, but those are minor considerations. So overall, the hardware's ok but the customer service for the device is horrible. Date: 2008-02-29 LOVE LOVE LOVE this phone!!! I have never enjoyed a phone so much. I can do anything with this. It is my first smartphone so maybe I am oblivious to what's out there, but I doubt it. I can do everything from this phone. I bought a clear hard case to protect it though. The only thing is sometimes it vibrates for no reason but for half a second. It doesn't light up when it does that so maybe it's searching for a signal but I have never had a problem with reception, never dropped a call even in the places I did with previous phones. I seriously could not be happier with this phone, it's wonderful! Date: 2008-02-21 My Little Red Companion Coming from a T-Mobile Sidekick III to a red palm centro, I had fairly reasonable expectations from a higher-end phone and a higher-end service (sprint). Providing a little background into my service change, my friend who works at sprint hooked me up with the Sprint SERO plan, which you can google and will find multiple ways to take advantage of the plan. I pay thirty dollars a month, and I get 500 minutes, unlimited data and unlimited texting... you simply can't beat it. Anyway, back to the phone. I ended up getting the red version; my best friend has the pink one, so I figured I should switch it up a little, and black was so normal. I was stunned when I opened the packaging and saw how small it was. This phone is truly the tiniest smartphone I have ever seen that has a QWERTY keyboard, hands down. Being a young man with rather large hands, I was afraid that the keyboard would be too small for me to tap out even the simplest text message without making multiple errors; however, after a few days of getting used to the phone, I now make no mistakes when writing even a large email. This phone is also one of the sturdiest phones I have ever owned. Compared to my previous sidekicks,razrs, and the like of flimsy phones, I have had this phone for over two weeks, used it constantly, dropped it multiple times, and it has not one scratch on it. The casing, a shiny metallic-like plastic, is surprisingly sturdy, and none of the paint has come of at all. Diving into the software interface of this phone, Palm's age-old operating system is on it, but I had no problems with it. Sprint included pTunes, which is a great mp3 player with an internet radio receiver, Sprint TV, which is a system of some free and some one-time cost shows and videos that you can download to your phone at lightening speed, google maps, documents to go, and text messaging that is displayed in conversations much like the iPhone. Syncing this phone to the computer is an absolute breeze, and finding third-party apps for it is an easy task. Opera mini, an iPhone-like web browser, can be installed onto it if you find the Java Microenvironment. Another plus in having this Microenvironment is the fact that...drumroll please... it allows you to STREAM YOUTUBE VIDEOS! After downloading the Java Microenvironment, just go to [...] and off you go! This browser AND the Java Microenvironment made the phone 100% better, and it's only one of the many third party apps that I use every day. One of the huge features of this sprint smartphone is that it has picturemail. Windows mobile phones do NOT have picture mail, making this and the Palm Treo the only smartphones that sprint offers which have this capability; a MAJOR selling point for many, including myself. In terms of service, I get service absolutely EVERYWHERE, including in my school which has cell blockers. I often get service where people who have verizon don't get service, and when I've roamed it's been on the verizon network, so I have never had a time where service hasn't been available. There are two things about this phone that I dislike, but not enough to dislike it any bit. One of these is the battery life. With the screen's brightness turned to the lowest it can go without shutting the baklight completely off, the most it could last without a charge is 2 days, and this is without use of the mp3 player and data. I find myself charging it every night, which isn't a big deal, but for some people I'm sure this would be a hassle. The other negative feature about this phone is the fact that the batter cover has to be removed in order for you to be able to remove your microSD card. For those who swap memory cards, this could get old very quickly, but I've gotten used to it. All in all, this is basically a smaller version of the popular, and much more expensive, palm treo. I would recommend this phone and the sprint SERO plan to everyone, hands down.
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