Comments on: Free Palm Centro with 2-year Sprint Contract

By: BP

BP — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:50:44 +0000

People praise the Treo 755p because it is easier to use versus its windows cousin. The Centro is simply a smaller version, with pretty much the same functionality for much less. It is a very good deal. And with the plethora of 3rd party software, one can play music, balance a check book, keep a calendar, email, IM, browse with broadband speed, get somewhere with google maps. There are many more things one can do with the Centro, than with the iPhone. Flashy it aint. But who cares for pizazz; it delivers!

By: Me

Me — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:54:21 +0000

Hmmmmm….Think Firefly paid for an ad here?
By-the-way…I think the Centro is a great phone for the money…even at the $99.99 price.

By: Mog

Mog — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:05:51 +0000

FyrreStarrter: What is it, exactly, that makes the Centro NOT a “true smartphone”?

It is literally just a smaller Treo for a third the price. I think that makes it a pretty good deal.

I know a lot of people don’t like Palm OS, but to go so far as to say that it isn’t a smartphone is a bit…extreme, no? It’s dated, sure, but it can still run third party apps, etc…

Personally, I think Palm OS and the Centro was a perfect choice for my first smartphone. I just didn’t want all the hassles of Windows Mobile – who wants to worry about memory management on their phone? I would have gone with a BlackBerry Pearl, but I was uneasy about the SureType keyboard, and I don’t like trackballs. I much prefer the Centro’s touchscreen. Oh, and the Centro is much cheaper (as is my monthly bill).

So even if all of you HTC/WinMo fans can’t possibly comprehend how anyone could possibly like Palm, they do have their place in the market. Is the Centro a last-ditch effort to save Palm? Maybe. Will it work? Maybe not. Is it a bad phone because of this? No.

By: FyreStarrter

FyreStarrter — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:01:02 +0000

lol man those things are EVERYWHERE here. I think alot of the people that buy them are thinking they are getting a true smartphone. Consequently, I have also seen quite a few people returning them too! Oh & the one that AT&T has with the green keys is the BEST looking of all the Colours out!! This black one is FUGLY!!

By: TxdoHawk

TxdoHawk — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:05:25 +0000

Man, who thought it would be a good idea to make the whole phone black except for that strip of white for the buttons? Between this and the pea soup green buttons on that other Centro, I’m starting to wonder if Palm has piles of mis-colored buttons and a burning desire to get rid of them. =p

By: argonnj

argonnj — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:48:13 +0000

You couldn’t pay me to take a Palm.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:46:44 +0000

Actually, you can also get the new GSM AT&T Centro for free as well as I posted a few days ago…

http://blog.treonauts.com/2008/03/palm-centro-fre.html

Cheers, A.

By: Jim Jonn G

Jim Jonn G — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:27:42 +0000

You know I do not get why BGR has not reported on the Mogul getting a ROM update on the tenth.

Mogul ROM to be updated

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:11:52 +0000

@case comon weres the 8830? tsk tsk tsk

By: Jeff B.

Jeff B. — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:34:43 +0000

HAHA!!!! Sprint sucks and this is finally the price it should’ve been when it first came out.

By: glenn

glenn — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:47:34 +0000

if sprint them selves were giving the phone away for free that maybe deserves a post… but wirefly? cmon if that’s the case I think http://www.newegg.com has the curve for 1 cent

By: Sasquatch

Sasquatch — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:19:10 +0000

Since when are Wirefly’s prices news? I just went there and they are offering the same deal with the ATT Centro.

By: csapp

csapp — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:45:35 +0000

A deal is one thing but wirefly is garbage. For every customer that gets this deal another customer is out there being charged some random fee for changing their plan or changing their phone number. Hands up everyone who has been burned by wirefly or their dubious parent company inphonic.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:17:18 +0000

Free Fisher-Price phone from Deutch-Telekom, eh?

Poor, sad little Sprint … The little engine that couldn’t.

By: mitch fong

mitch fong — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:45:51 +0000

You know I kinda like it, abd I use the curve 8320, lol

By: Chase

Chase — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:18:17 +0000

Cenro is not too bad. It still always somehow strikes me as, cheap. Flame on.

cellformer

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:54:09 +0000

quite the firesale strategy her eh?