Palm Centro Onyx Red cell phone, specs, user reviews, images, user manual, and more...

The Centro is the smallest mobile device Palm has every introduced. Available in red and black the Centro features a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, touchscreen, expandable memory card slot (MicroSD up to 4GB), Palm OS 5.4.9, and an Intel XScale processor 312MHz.

What’s Good: Full-featured, easy to use smartphone for entry-level price; Clear, bright, high-resolution touchscreen; Compact body with rounded edges; Zippy EV-DO data with access to Sprint TV service; A-GPS works with location-based services

What’s Not Good: QWERTY keys are small and cramped; Display is smallish (if still easy to read); Hardware and software design feels a bit dated; Noticeably thicker than comparable devices; No Music Store access (yet)

Bottom Line: Get Centro in your hands. If you like the way it feels and if the buttons aren’t too small for you, you might have found yourself the best value currently going in a full-featured smartphone built for consumers. Palm OS is not slick, but it works well and Sprint’s fast EV-DO data network and excellent music store add value to the device. But the cramped buttons and small screen will be deal-breakers for some.

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Overall Rating:

4 out of 5

By: sean smith on Friday, August 21, 2009
From: norwich, CT (United States)
Experience: 6 Days

Pros: great speakers sound,good pictures,good call qualty,fast web,easy to use,pocketable,responsive touch screen

Cons: small keys,small screen,battery could be better

Summary: great phone, love this phone it has a alot of features and you would love this phone it is a very good phone to have.

This phone is awesome

Overall Rating:

3.5 out of 5

By: Harrison Fredrickson on Thursday, June 18, 2009
From: LaPorte, TX (United States)
Experience: 1 Years

Pros: good for texting good volume battery life lots of memory durable

Cons: speaker bulky and heavy freezes the keys get stuck ALOT

Summary: This phone has been really good im 11 i gotwhen i was 10. BUt i do alot of texting and textibg is a breez. this is a very good phone.

does what it should

Overall Rating:

4.2 out of 5

By: tdc ! on Monday, March 23, 2009
From: seattle, WA (United States)
Experience: 4 Months

Pros: qwerty keyboard. takes great pictures for having such a low mp camera. full qwerty is rad. super fast os. lots of free, useful apps available. small in size. touch screen.

Cons: os, while super fast, is rather dated. keyboard backlight went out for some reason? still looking into this.

Summary: people like to complain about the size of the buttons and the screen, but i mean come on, didn't you guys check out the phone before you bought it? if so, you knew what you were getting, if not, well you should have.
the battery life has been pretty good for me, as good as or better than any other cell phone i've ever had. it can easily make a couple days without charging before dying on me.
i don't use many of the actual "smart phone" features, i wanted something cheap with a full qwerty. so far the only real bummer is the keyboard backlight going out.
this phone works great for what i wanted, and has a lot of extra features that i'm loving.

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Unlocked Palm Centro

Overall Rating:

1.4 out of 5

By: Michael Robinson on Saturday, March 07, 2009
From: Wiesbaden, Europe (Germany)
Experience: 15 Days

Pros: Sounded good on paper. Has lots of features. Custormer service was friendly yet not able to help resolve issues both in US and in Germany. Custormer service was helpful when I sent it back for a refund.

Cons: Would not pick up European SIM card initailly. Inconsistent connection. Very unreliable. Too many issues which could not be overcome.

Summary: Despite being Quad band it was not consistent in service.

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