AT&T today launched the Palm Centro, designed for users to manage their busy lives. The Centro offers consumers more choices to stay in touch by using voice, text messaging, instant messaging, email or the Web. Featuring a color touch-screen and full QWERTY keyboard, the Centro is the first Palm OS product to launch with AT&T services, such as XM Radio Mobile, Push-to-Talk and MusicID.

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The smallest and lightest Palm product to date, the Palm Centro from AT&T is available in new "glacier white" with green keypad accents, and, in approximately one month, AT&T will debut a second color - "obsidian black."

The Centro's touch-screen and keyboard, combined with the Palm OS, give convenient access to features such as one-touch speakerphone, conference calling, ignore a call with text messaging and Bluetooth connectivity.

Its text-messaging application displays text and multimedia messages in a chat-style view, just like PC-based instant messaging, so users can see the entire conversation unfold. With the built-in IM application, users can message with select contacts from their choice of AIM, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging services.

The Centro makes email easy with Xpress Mail, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, and Good Mobile Messaging. Using Xpress Mail, consumers can easily set up and access personal email from Gmail, AOL, Yahoo!, Windows Live and other popular Internet service providers. Xpress Mail also provides access to Lotus Notes. Via Exchange ActiveSync, receiving Microsoft Outlook email, as well as syncing Outlook contacts and calendar appointments, can be done right after the phone comes out of the box. Good Mobile Messaging is also supported on Centro and is downloadable over the air from http://get.good.com .

The AT&T Mobile Music platform can sideload music with Napster and eMusic with built-in Pocket Tunes Deluxe, listen to live radio with XM Radio Mobile and discover new songs with MusicID. The AT&T Centro is the first Palm smart device to offer XM Radio Mobile. For $8.99 a month, XM Radio Mobile gives consumers 25 of the best XM Radio channels, featuring commercial-free rock, hip-hop, country, jazz and more.

With a database of over 3 million artists and titles, customers can use MusicID to identify an unknown song. While holding the Centro up to a speaker, the MusicID application returns song information such as title, artist and cover art, if available. It also keeps track of previous IDs and allows users to share song information with friends via text messages, for $3.99 a month.

The Palm Centro from AT&T is available for $99.99 after a two-year service agreement and a mail-in rebate.

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