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After Sprint it’s the AT&T’s turn to make available the nice candybar Palm Centro at just $99.99 with a 2-year agreement and a mail-in rebate.
The model is optimized for communication with voice/text messaging, instant messaging, e-mail function, all these to allow the future customers stay in touch with friends and family.



Also, Palm Centro sports a nice touch-sensitive display and a great QWERTY keyboard on which you type long messages, and it is the first Palm OS mobile device launched at AT&T, with the telecommunication company’s specific services including XM Radio Mobile, Push to Talk for talking up to 29 persons, showing who is free for receiving a call, and MusicID.



The TeleNav GPS Navigator is optional but it is used to access maps and over 10 million points of interest with on-screen driving direction.
MobiTV is another AT&T service that lets users watch live TV programs.

Palm Centro has 64MB internal memory, microSD card slot, GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth with A2DP, USB, HTML, a built-in 1.3MP camera with video recording capability, document viewer, and a standard 1050 mAh Li-Ion battery for up to four hours of operating time.

Palm Treo 680 made available by AT&T this spring, has received a new important update with lots of enhancements including SDHC cards support for up to 4GB storage.

The update version 2.11 and brings support for Push Email, Push to Talk, enhanced power saving, instant messaging via AOL, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo, enhanced ringtone support with compatibility with MP3, AAC, AAC+, MIDI, WAV, and AMR file formats, and easier access to TeleNav and MobiTV services.

Read more here about how to update the system, and then sign-up for the Palm Treo 680 update notification.

Palm Treo 500v is released on the Vodafone mobile network across Europe and comes with the latest Windows Mobile OS.

Palm Treo seems to be building thinner and thinner phones, in this case only 0.65 inches, though the 500v is a little bit wider than its predecessor, having a transflective color screen resolution of 320x240 pixels with a landscape orientation, but no touch-sensitive feature, just a QWERTY keyboard.



With its 2MP camera with 2x digital zoom you can capture pictures at a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels and films at 320x240 pixels, which are the minimum decent expectations from a phone camera these days.
Connection technologies supported are: GSM (900/1800/1900), GPRS class 10 and UMTS (2100).



And there is also the Bluetooth 2.0 support with EDR for stereo headsets.
It has no infrared but a miniUSB port type.
For adding some extra memory, you have the microSD card slot, with which you can increase its 150 MB available memory.



The Li-Ion battery is of 1200mAh and has a standby time of up to 10 days and the talk time of 4.5 hours.

The Palm Treo 500v can be found at a full price of $588 or free with a Vodafone contract of course.

Palm company is soon to release its new Centro Smartphone, a small phone offered at a starting price of $99, with the Wireless Plan.

<-234x60 Half Banner - left->Small, cheap but full featured.
Through the new Centro the communication is very simple.
It has features from text messaging to IM and e-mail.

When you have to look for information about an unknown location, just use the touchscreen or the Qwerty keyboard to access the Blazer mobile web browser or go on Google Maps.

Take pictures on your road with its 1.3MP camera or shoot with the video camera, storing up to 64MB of the Smartphone’s memory.
If you want to add MP3s to play them with the built-in MP3 player, then use a 4GB miscoSD card.

The Sprint TV offers you the possibility to watch CNN mobile, FOX Sports, The Weather Channel, Disney Channel, and E! Entertainment.

More specifications here:

- The Centro has a 320x320 pixel Transflective color touchscreen and supports 16-bit color (up to 65K colors);
- It has a radio incorporated with dual-band CDMA2000 EvDO backward compatible
with 1XRTT and IS95;
- The platform is a Palm OS 5.4.9;
- Has support for Bluetooth v1.2;
- The battery is of 1150mAh, li-ion allowing up to
3.5 hours talk time (300 hours in standby);
- It comes in two colors: ruby and onyx;
- As system requirements you need to have: Windows XP/Vista or Mac OS X v10.2-10.4;
- The Smartphone measures only 4.22"x 2.11"x 0.73";

The software on the phone are: Calculator, Camcorder, Camera, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Memos, Documents to Go Professional Edition 10, Downloads, Google Mobile Maps, HotSync, Instant Messaging, Nuance Voice Control, My Centro, On Demand, Phone, Pics and Video, PocketTunes Deluxe, Quick Tour, Sprint Mobile Email, Sprint Store, Sprint TV, Sudoku, VersaMail 4.0, Voice Memo, Web (Blazer 4.5), and World Clock.

Included in the price are: a removable battery, the AC charger, a USB sync cable, the user documentation and the software installation CD.
Pre-orders are available here.

Rumors say Palm's new version of their PalmOS will be based on a Linux Kernel. But don't worry, it seems that the new OS will still maintain some compatibility with Palm OS 5 Garnet (the latest version). This new Linux Kernel based OS will be Palm's homegrown OS and it will not be licensed to other manufacturers. The recent agreement between Palm and Opera make us think Opera will be the default browser.

Palm devices based on the Linux Kernel should appear before the end of the year, but some PalmOS 5 devices will still be introduced later this year.



Via TreoCentral.