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User Submitted Palm Centro Smartphone, Black (Sprint) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-02-19 Great This is my first PDA. I wanted to get a Motorola Q but I heard awful reviews about it. I was a bit sceptical about this phone being that it was so small and the QWERTY would be impossible to use, but after using this phone and having it for the past couple of days, the QWERTY is very easy to used, I have very FAT fingers, but it is fine, although I wish teh keys were a bit larger, they do the job just fine. As for the memory, its not the best. If you want to store your mp3 music, you have to by a larger memory, preferably a 2GB simply because the phone will only be able to store about 12-13 songs considering the songs are an average size of 2-3mb. Other than that, no problems. Date: 2007-12-27 Awesome!! Go for it if you use a Mac I am switching from a T-Mobile MDA. I just got this phone from amazon with a new 2 year plan from sprint. I got the phone for free as long as I pay my bills on time. I am a big fan of the palm OS. It is a bit old fashioned but very rugged and crisp. The display is small but sharp. I got the vision unlimited data plan, it is nice. It even works in my office building which is a giant old brick building. The palm desktop works on Mac OS X seamlessly. I do not use it for mp3 simply 'cause my iPod beats it in that arena. It fits right in my jeans' front pocket. The flimsy battery door, short battery life, no bundled stereo headphones are the only cons I can think of. And no stereo bluetooth. Hence the 4 stars instead of 5. If you do not want to use windows powered devices, go for this handy, stylish, and practical PDA/ Phone. OK. I am back with an updated review of the phone after about 6 months or so. It has been so far very lightly used. I recently started to use the phone's bluetooth tethering for internet service. I just love it. It gives me roughly the speed of a 768K DSL line. During thunderstorms and power outage or in the park, I can use the EVDO internet. So far the only complain I have is the battery life. With the bluetooth on, it last a very short time. Date: 2007-12-27 Love the size and features! I've had my phone a couple weeks and love it! I am still learning the features of the phone, but I am pleased to have so much loaded into such a small device. The call quality is great. The photo and video quality is good. Plus TV and radio! I added a 2G micro SD card and have lots of storage. This is a great phone. I am happy I purchased it and will recommend it to others. Date: 2007-12-22 Same-Old, Same-Old. Treo 600, I mean Centro.... I like the Treo Centro. It runs on the very dependable Sprint CDMA/EV-DO network. But it is the same phone as the Treo 600 that came out back in 2003. Palm decided that since the 600 was such a big success, that they had no need to make any kind of effort in designing a new phone. This holds true with the Centro. This phone has the (((SAME))) hardware as the Treo 600, 650, 700, 750, ect. Just a bit more memory and a so-called updated OS. The OS might have an update number of 5.4.9, but there is zero difference in the OS. I can not tell a difference at all. This is sad seeing as they made a Lunix based OS called Cobalt years ago and it has never seen the light of day. The Centro still has the same bugs as every Treo since the 600. Start-up time is very slow. Which is really bad when you are in need of making an important phone call, and the phone resets for no reason. Making you wait up to 60+ seconds for it to come back online. The limited RAM of 64MB's, is so much lower then most PDA's currently on the market. You can use ZLaucher to transfer programs to a memory card, but this can not be done with all software. And since the web browser uses RAM, not memory cards, you still only have 8MB's to work with in Blazer. All software must be loaded into RAM before being it can run, So prepare for the phone to reset at least once a day to get the those limited RAM resources back. Still no WiFi, which was the complaint in 2003 and Palm has not added it yet. The Centro still has the same 312 MHz Intel XScale processor. Signal strength is still pretty strong, but voice quality is still not great when compared to every other phone I have used before. Sprint is marketing this as an affordable PDA at $99 with a contract. But when you know that the hardware is going on 5 years old, price really doesn't make current PDA owners care a whole lot. I bought the Centro because I hated my Motorola RAZR 2 and I needed to get something better. But after using the Centro for over a month now, I see no difference what-so-ever in this PDA and the Treo 600 and 650 that I owned a few years ago. Smaller packaging, but the same phone. The Centro is a good example of what a PDA maker SHOULD NOT DO. While Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, HTC, ect have all updated their lineups with powerful PDA's, Palm has sat idly by doing nothing with their forum star power. Palm used to control a huge chuck of the PDA software market, but now Microsoft has caught up and passed PalmOS by. No new companies have used PalmOS. Let me rephrase that, NO ONE is using the PalmOS anymore; except for Palm. So if you don't have a PDA and want an affordable one, then the Centro might be for you. If you want power, then Sprint has much better PDA's then the aged and milked-to-death Treo's. More then likely the Centro will be the last PDA-Phone ever made by Palm. They have lost crazy amounts of market share and have been laying off employees. So who knows, maybe the Centro will be a collectors item. A PDA that has never evolved, never been fixed, never been changed in any, meaningful way.Treo Date: 2007-12-20 Nice improvement over the Treo 650 I have had my Treo 650 for over 2 years, it was time to put it out to pasture. It was between the Treo 755p and the Centro. Went with the Centro for the smaller size. I was able to transfer everything over from my Treo and with only a couple of problems. My Real Estate program had to be updated. Everything is working properly now. Kinoma on the Centro is a nice program with the EVDO network. Check it out to make your new phone a media playing machine. Pros: Small size Same Palm interface Good Screen Loud Speaker EVDO Fast Internet No Antenna Qwerty keyboard Micro SD Sprint Unlimited Data Plan Cons: Plastic Stylus slick plastic small keyboard Avg. Camera Battery Life I have a new Seidio case and stylus on order to take care of these short comings. A beefier battery might be in order if you are a power user. This phone is good enough to run a business with with the PDA, calendar, memos, call log, Internet, Email, text message alerts, and bluetooth. And cool enough for a teenager as a text messaging, 6 GB MP3 player, games, camera, and camcorder phone. That also includes the text messages services for AOL, MSN, and Yahoo. BTW, you can multi task with PTunes. It allows you to play music in the background as you play games, make notes etc. Sprint and Palm get a bad rap, but this is a nice little device for the price.
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