Palm Centro, a Business Smartphone With QWERTY keyboard

Competing in smartphone market, Palm strengthens its position with Palm Centro. It is a business smartphone with touch screen and QWERTY keyboard as well as massive features. How the phone performs, let’s have a look at review below.

Palm Centro

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Coming with new and fresh look, Palm Centro takes candybar design that holds its touch screen and portrait QWERTY keyboard. It feels small in all dimensions but still perfectly match in your hand measuring 107.2 x 53.5 x 18.6 mm and weighing 124 grams. The front panel is resided by 2.25 inches resistive touchscreen in 320 x 320 pixels resolution, navigation array and full QWERTY keyboard. The navigation array comes with silver accent that differentiate it from the keyboard. It consists of Call key. Phone key, Home key, End Call or Power key, Message key, Calendar key and elliptical 5-way directional pad on the center. Below the navigation array is full QWERTY keyboard arranged in 4 rows. It feels small and cramped as most part of the front panel is taken by the screen. Around the side of the phone are volume rocker keys, customizable launch key, standard Palm charging or data port, infrared port, microSD card slot, and sliding switch vibration mode key. On the back side, there are speakerphone, 1.3 megapixel camera, self-portrait mirror, tucked stylus pen and external antenna.

Palm Centro is a smartphone running on Palm OS 5.4.9 and powering 32-bit Intel XScale PXA270 312 MHz processor. The interface appears in intuitive layout and runs smooth and stable. There is also customize options such as changing wallpaper or edit and create categories, as well as reassign application to any category. For messaging features, Palm Centro offers text messaging (SMS), multimedia messaging (MMs), Instant Messaging and Email. Text messaging comes with threaded view that allows text messages to become instant message conversations. As for Instant Messaging feature, you will be given direct access to AIM, Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. Email feature provides VersaMail email application that comes with Microsoft's Direct Push Technology and preloaded configuration settings of AOL, AIM, Hotmail, Yahoo! and Gmail; yet you may configure any POP or IMAP client as well.

Palm Centro runs on CDMA network and already support CDMA EV-DO data network. Internet browsing is handled by Blazer 4.5 with WAP 2.0 and HTML support. Other connectivity includes infrared port, Bluetooth, and USB connection. Palm Centro also comes with Palm Desktop application that handles PC synchronizing. It allows you to synchronize your contacts and calendar to your PC or Laptop via program itself or Outlook. It can also be used to install third party applications to the phone.

Come to multimedia feature, Palm Centro is equipped by 1.3 megapixels camera, Pocket Tunes deluxe music player and Pics & Videos application. The camera performs very well with bright and great color representation and sharp edges. The camera can also record video up to 352 x 288 pixels resolution with average quality. All video playback is handled by and Pics & Videos application. It is manage to play videos in full-screen mode and supports MPEG4 QVGA videos encoded with H.263. Meanwhile, audio playback is handled by Pocket Tunes deluxe application. It comes with full featured music player and can play in background. Furthermore, Centro comes with plentiful applications, and third party applications support. Last but not least,

is powered by standard battery Li-Ion 1150 mAh that is rated up to 4 hours of talk time or up to 300 hours of standby time.