Palm Centro Smartphone, Black (Sprint)

Palm Centro Smartphone, Black (Sprint) Features

Additional Palm Centro Smartphone, Black (Sprint) Information

The Palm Centro's full QWERTY keyboard makes it easy to type text messages, IMs, and e-mails (the red version is pictured).

Phone and Messaging Functions
The Palm Centro smartphones offers a ton of ways to stay in touch with friends, whether you're calling Brian, firing off a quick text to Jen, instant messaging Chris, or shooting an e-mail to Kat. From a phone perspective, the Palm Centro lets you dial people right from your address book, set up three-way calls from the touch of a button, or use the speakerphone to talk hands-free. The keyboard, meanwhile, makes it a breeze to type complete messages whether you're sending text, pictures, or even audio or video clips. Plus, the Centro keeps all your messages in a chat-style view, so it's easy to keep track of the conversation.

The 320 x 320 color touchscreen is crisp and vivid, making it ideal for viewing photos or watching videos.

Web Functions
Whether you're keeping up with friends on MySpace or looking up directions to the new bistro across town, the Centro's touchscreen and keyboard make it fun to navigate around the web. The Centro includes a fast built-in web browser that lets you check out photos on Flickr or watch videos on YouTube, with broadband-like speeds on the EV-DO network that are guaranteed to impress. No more waiting around for your favorite sites to load. The Centro is also compatible with Google Maps, making it simple to get directions or see which freeways are clear and which ones are parking lots. Google Maps shows you red, yellow, or green traffic routes in real time.

Organizer Functions
The Palm Centro includes a complete organizer for keeping track of all your daily, weekly, and monthly responsibilities. The contacts list gathers all your friends' phone numbers, addresses, and more, while the calendar keeps you from missing upcoming meetings, events, and parties. You can even enter a friend's birthday in the contacts list and will automatically show up in your calendar. As with the best organizers, the Centro also offers a to-do list that lets you check off items when they're complete. As a result, it's easy to keep track of what you did and still need to do. And should you come across a tidbit that doesn't have a logical home, simply turn to the memo function, which lets you store random information such as hot spots in Vegas or the names of movies you'd like to rent. Say goodbye to carrying around crumpled scraps of paper in your pocket or purse. Finally, it's possible to save a copy of all those names, numbers, appointments, photos, and videos on your computer thanks to the sync function.

Multimedia
Whether you want to take pictures, play videos, or listen to music, the Palm Centro has got you covered. The 1.3-megapixel digital camera (with a 2x digital zoom) lets you shoot pictures and send them to friends, store digital albums, or shoot videos. The built-in MP3 player, meanwhile, lets you take your tunes everywhere you go. With 64 MB of storage, there's plenty of room for your playlists, plus you can add up to 4 GB more with a microSD card. And thanks to Pocket Tunes Deluxe, you can play the songs you downloaded from places like Rhapsody or Yahoo. As a bonus, the Centro supports a ton of fun stuff from Sprint, including the ability to watch such TV channels as CNN Mobile, Fox Sports, the Weather Channel, the Disney Channel, and E! Entertainment. There's never a dull moment with the Palm Centro around.

Other phone details include a removable lithium-ion battery that offers 3.5 hours of talk time and up to 300 hours of standby time; a Palm OS 5.4.9 platform; and support for Windows XP and Vista and Mac OS X 10.2 and higher.

What Customers Say About Palm Centro Smartphone, Black (Sprint):

It's been almost one month. Do not consider Centro. I bought this about 4 months ago since I needed a phone of schedule management. But, it was okay. What I am saying is they could not fix it and had to send me the brand new one, which I don't know if it will have the same speaker problem in the future. as some previous users noted here. It was supposed to take 6 to 9 business days, but I just got it back.

As I talked to a representative to check my phone status for repair, I remember she said there were many repair requests for Centro so that it could take more than normal 6-9 business days. speaker, that the repair center couldn't fix it and had to send me the brand new one.

Suddenly, speaker does not work. This Centro model has so many problems, esp.

The screen was a bit small, keyboard was also small, response time sometimes became slow, etc. Moreover, they sent me back a brand new one, which does not make me happy at all.

I don't think the speaker problem is just bad luck. I can stand minor problems as far as the phone and schedule management work fine.A problem occured about one month ago.

I sent it to Palm for repair.

After 20 minutes of going through the menu finally got an idiot in Phillipines. The phone is OK, but the service is worthless. Had the phone 4 months. Couldn't understand him and finally gave up. I wouldn't buy another palm for this reason. Speaker broke. Called Palm service.

You will need to perpetually be charging it at client sites. Not that any cell phone camera and video are particularly good (most are quite bad) but the Centro's are bad by even these standards. With respect to the battery capacity problem, an additional problem is that the phone gives you no warning regarding the imminent demise of the battery. In short, this phone is not recommended. a built-in camera and video recording capability, the ability to take micro SD cards (good at expanding memory) and voice memo capability, among other features. This phone is relatively small and stylish. In addition, it has considerable number of features. The problems stemming from small cell phone size are very serious.

For casual cell phone use it suffices for a day but if you need to use this all day for business it definitely runs out of juice well before the end of the day. The pTunes feature only allows you to purchase music from Sprint's store (though it does permit downloading of your own music from CD) - not a particularly good option considering the store does not have spectacular selection. With respect to other problems, the Sprint broadband related features (ie, Sprint TV and web) are quite slow though not much slower than most other phones. Purchasing a bigger phone with bigger buttons that are actually useable and a battery life that can last carry one through a business day are much better options. Other problems include poor cell phone camera and video. The most serious, if not the most serious, is the fact that the buttons are far to small to operate for most people. But the promise of the technology is definitely behind what is delivered. For example, it has pTunes (Sprint's music player), Palm's calender, contact software, etc.

This is especially a problem as the phone, unlike most others, when it runs out of juice just shuts down and, when turned off for a few minutes, refuses to come back on (even for a few seconds). The second serious problem, again stemming from size, is small battery capacity. The problem is that many of these features do not work particulary well relative to other cell phones and the fact that the phone is so small causes serious trade-offs. Unless you are midget or a woman with manicured nails the buttons are quite a challenge to operate.

I'm not surprised at all. I have made 5 attempts to fix this and finally gave up.

She said she did and of course, it's still on my bill. A lady from Sprint called me trying to sell something and extend my contract, I laughed so hard, that she actually tried to fix my problems.

A word about Sprint: They used to be the best, and they are now the worst. Things have appeared on my bill for a year that shouldn't be there.

I'm turning off my phone today. The absolute worst.If you call them today, July 15'th 2008, you will get through the prompts until you are given a wait-time and then the systems tells you to call back later and hangs up on you.

They got rid of 80 % of their customer service workforce.

Don't waste your money on this piece of outdated technology when for the same money you can have a Blackberry pearl. This isn't a bad phone it's just about 3 years too late. The screen looks terrible, the OS is outdated, no copy and paste, no GPS, and the most ridiculous of all is that while you can use a bluetooth headset with it the centro doesn't support voice recognition and won't respect the bluetooth controls on the headset.