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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.

If you can’t wait to ditch your Palm Treo for an Apple iPhone when it comes out in June of this year, you’ll be happy to know that SimToGo has developed a new skin for your Treo that makes the OS look like an iPhone.

Your phone still won’t have a multitouch screen, widescreen movies, or iTunes, but at least it will look snazzy with its new iPhony skin! Best of all, it’s not $499 or $599, it’s free!

Via mobilemag.

Cingular announced the release of the low-cost Palm Treo 680. The Treo 680 is aimed at business users and consumers looking to get into a smartphone without having to endure the usual high-cost associated with the purchase.

Beginning Friday the 24th, Cingular will offer the new affordable Treo for as low as US$199 with a data plan, and for a limited time the Treo 680 will come with a music bundle from Yahoo!, which includes a 30-day free trial of Yahoo! Music Unlimited To Go.

The Treo 680 is a quad-band GSM handset that utilises EDGE for data connectivity. The Treo also includes a 320x320 pixel resolution touch screen, 64MB of available memory, and Bluetooth, as well as supporting business features such as push email and extensive PIM functionality.

Via engadget.

SlashPhone has 2 very interesting videos of the Palm Treo 680.
Click here to see the first one, that lets us have a look at the built-in application.
And click here to see the second one, which presents the Treo in 4 different colors.