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The Palm Centro is stylish and modern yet it’s the lightest and smallest palm phone till now. This remarkable phone lets the user communicate by email, text or voice easily and efficiently with family, friends and colleagues. With Centro’s full keyboard messaging and responding to emails are an easy task.
INTRODUCTION:
Palm boasts the Centro as the smallest smart phone to date. This tiny phone packs a lot to an enormous degree. Centro is small compare to the Treo but has a more modern looks. It has the same features which includes a QWERTY keypad and has tiny keys. The style of the Centro is designed to attract ladies and a younger group who are attracted to a smooth smart phone.
This smart phone weighs a mere 119.1grams. It has a neat design with very few problematic features; it also falls short of genuine innovation. A good addition to the Palm is the responsive touch screen.
The Centro is attractive with many helpful features. It also comes in a variety of colours.
DESIGN:
Palm comes with many features yet the hardware design is kept straight forward, sleek and intuitive. It has a length of 10.67cm width of 5.3cm and is 1.78cm thick, making it substantially lighter and smaller than the Treo series. It feels firm and well-made the modern lines of this phone allows an understated and classy appearance.
The Palm is a smart phone lightweight and less bulky than the BlackBerry. It is ideal for business and its tiny size makes the phone perfect to use anytime and fits easily in a phone pocket.
The Centro boasts an array of colors, service providers offers different colors. Widest range comes from Sprint with red, pink and glittery black. AT&T offers glacier white with lime green keys for numbers on its QWERTY keypad, and the cobalt blue comes from Verizon. The dark colors are a bit sparkly but subtle to maintain that professional outlook for its business users.
Keys are situated to access text messages, applications and calls on the Centro, it has a touch screen feature and stylus. Half of the face is the QWERTY keypad and the other half is the touch screen what measures 5.58cm diagonally. The Centro call screen keys are big enough making it very easy to dial and use.
The physical navigational key is most useful you will find it easier to use when you toggle through each application instead of using the touch screen.
Other buttons around its navigational key immediately brings out the screen, application, and calendar and messaging. At the right you will find the power key what is also used to end a call. This power key is also used for unlocking the keypad and turns off its screen. On the left you have the call key.
The Centro like the Treo comes with a QWERTY keypad situated at the bottom half of the face. The buttons are tiny making it difficult to use but fortunately it’s made from rubber and is slightly raised this helps to dial. The Centro has 70 programmable keys to access common tasks like accessing web pages and speed dial quickly.
The Centro has the USB port, the microphone and the slot for a charger at the bottom. The volume button is at the left side
The earpiece sits on top of the face, and you will find at the top right corner the stylus kept in its slot. At the back is the camera a self-portrait mirror and the large speaker of the phone at the right side is the phone infrared port and just below this is a MicroSD card slot.
What is in the box? The Centro from Sprint has a Palm installation software CD, charger, rechargeable Li-lon battery, USB sync cable, Sprint charger adapter, and guides like Welcome to Sprint and getting started including Read This First.
CAMERA:
The Palm Centro has a 1.3megapixel camera which has a decent photo quality. It has a 2x zoom and lacks in a built-in flash. The photography option is simple and is simple to access. The camcorder and camera can be accessed from the navigational key. Photos are fair in the light sharp images are produced photos in the dark on the other hand are impossible without a flash the quality of the photos depends on the lighting. In all the balance wasn’t bad.
Video quality, fairly decent shots taken in dim light or indoors are a bit bluish. The microphone did great recording of sound. One of the phones shortfalls is the lack of video and photo editing tools. The self-image mirror at the back allows for just the face to be captured.
BASIC FEATURES:
The Centro comes fitted with the Palm Operating System 5.4.9, easy system to operate easy tasks. The Centro packs loads of shortcuts also customization options. The Li-lon battery provides 300 hours of talk time and 3.5 hours talk time.
SCREEN/ MESSAGING:
It has a 65K colour screen and measures 2.2 inches it offers bright images with video- focused settings gives 262K to 16.7 million colours. It has a 320×320 px touch screen has TFT, LCD offers bright images and is more responsive.
The touch screen is responsive and very sensitive to the touch from the stylus and the finger.
MESSAGING:
With the Palm Centro you are able to access email from IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, and Microsoft Exchange Direct Push. Last but not least a convenient for all business users can now receive email via Direct Push as soon as it arrives in. you will also be able to receive instant messaging through Yahoo, Windows Live and AIM.
INTERNET:
Sprint makes surfing the net a breeze since supported by Sprints EV-DO which is a high-speed broadband network. It also lacks in Wi-Fi. By using Palm Blazer mobile web browser users can access internet. You will be able to open three email accounts using Sprint Mobile Email. You can access your emails at Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and Windows Live.
STORAGE:
The Centro has an internal memory 64.0MB you can also purchase a microSD card which holds 4 GB of memory.
CONNECTIVITY:
The Centro supports many Bluetooth profiles. Handsfree profile and Headset profile. It also has Dial-up networking what turns the phone into a modem to use a laptop. The Object Push Profile makes it possible for data to be transferred from Bluetooth to any other compatible device.
CONCLUSION:
The Centro is a great basic phone has all features necessary for a user and has smart phone capabilities. It lags behind though in certain areas like the camera is a huge disappointment compare to most smart phones available at the moment. With its tiny keypad the Palm Centro is targeted to ladies it also has soft famine colour range. This phone is tiny and sleek easy to slide into a purse making it easy to carry around.
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