Verizon Wireless today announced that the Palm Centro smartphone will be available on June 13 for $99. Dressed in cobalt blue, the Centro offers a color touch-screen, full QWERTY keyboard and a lightweight design.

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Running on Verizon's high-speed data network, the Centro can quickly send and receive email messages and attachments and browse the Web. Customers can use it as a modem for their laptops when they subscribe to BroadbandAccess Connect service plan.

The built-in Google Maps application provides directions, performs local searches and views moveable maps, satellite imagery and traffic updates. It can map a contact's address from the contact application simply by selecting the "maps" button.

The Centro can also access VersaMail 4.0 with built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. Microsoft Direct Push Technology delivers email and calendar updates from a home or office PC using Outlook directly to their handsets. Users can also use Wireless Sync to access email, contacts, calendar and tasks from a PC. Wireless Sync supports POP3 or IMAP email accounts, Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino.

The Palm Centro will be available online and in stores for $99.99 after a $70 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.

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1. Posted by JumpsInLava	Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:15 pm
I wouldn't touch this phone on the Verizon network. They have a habit of disabling built in features, and then make you pay a monthy service charge to use them. (Blackberry GPS anyone?) Just wait for the new iPhone.
2. Posted by paperstreet	Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:44 pm
Yeah, that will be less costly
3. Posted by lilya06	Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:08 am
That's true. Maybe I should switch to sprint?
4. Posted by paperstreet	Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:01 am
Did you hear about the money Sprint lost in q4 of 2007? Do you know how much Sprint was worth at that time?
5. Posted by DonnieBray	Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:21 pm
I just took the Palm Centro for a 30 day test run on Verizon. The phone itself sounds great, and service is great too. The problem is the device itself. The touchscreen is very unresponsive even on the most delicate settings. The keyboard is TINY, I dont think I sent a single SMS without hitting the backspace button at least a dozen times. The OS is still the same old outdated Palm Coloring Book OS we've seen on every one of their devices since 1901. Althought the app. list is substantial you cant rely on it. I tried the GPS out and it was off by a quarter mile. it just seems like palm isnt trying any more, though I hear they have a new Treo in the works. Cut the fooling around get a Blackberry.
6. Posted by paperstreet	Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:11 am
Holding off until the review for the touch-screen blackberry makes the market later 2008 or early 2009

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