Nice improvement over the Treo 650 | Palm Centro Black Smartphone (Sprint)

Overall, a decent improvement over the 700p | Palm Centro Black Smartphone (Sprint)

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	• Palm Centro Black Smartphone (Sprint) Sprint Sprint, 2007 average customer review:based on 40 reviews view larger image
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Very Nice Phone

Sprint can thank this phone for retaining me as a customer.

The reception is excellent (my house gets flakey reception with all other models and carriers we've tried [Sprint,Cingular,Verizon] but I haven't had a single dropped call with this phone).

Astheticly pleasing. I prefer less masculine looking gadgets and this filled the bill (I was lucky enough to find it in red. You can get plain or colorful cover cases for it from 3rd parties like ebay) as it is smaller and "cuter" than my husband's IPhone.

Clear, easy to see screen.

I was a little skeptical of whether I'd like Palm OS, I've always used Windows mobile on my PDA's. But it was easy to get used to and I love it now.

Camera feature - 1.3 mp, I didn't really care to have high quality. I have a digital camera for that pics, I just wanted something to use on the go.

Google Maps - I didn't want a turn by turn GPS and to be charged $3 every day I used it... but I DID want to be able to look and see how to get where I want to go. This fills does that nicely.

I like the keypad. It's small, but the buttons are individual and rubberized. For me it's easier to deal with than the slideout keypads on other phones I have used. My husband hates this feature of my Centro. He has very large fingers and presses multiple buttons, but you can use fingernails or a pen even with large fingers.

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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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Overall, a decent improvement over the 700p

Pros:
Price
Smaller, lighter, nicer package
Better call quality and reception
Faster downloads
Richer color screen
Better camera
Good speakerphone
Will eventually support Google "My Location" GPS
Uses the same cable and headset connections

Cons:
Plastic flimsy stylus
Glitter in the black color
Smaller screen size
Smaller buttons - hard to use if you have big hands
Battery is decent for the size, better than 680, not as good as 700p
Mini SD - I have to buy a new card

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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

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