“I’ll take smartphones for under $70, Alex.”

If you've seen the photos of the new electric blue AT&T Centro, you already know it's a stunner. But now to make it even more dazzling, you can pick one up for as low as $69.99.* Through September 20, this special price is being offered for all three AT&T Centro colors: electric blue, glacier white and obsidian black. They're available at your local AT&T stores and online at www.palm.com/centro.

Enjoy!

-Paul Loeffler

*Estimated retail price, with two-year service agreement and mail in rebate.

Comments

[Jared]

Longtime Palm owner here... I'd pay for a $199 phone that the company continues to update. I *HATE* that after Palm releases a product, it's dead to them. Why does the Centro have a better version of VersaMail that's not available to 755p owners? Especially since 755p owners paid more money for their phones?!??! All I ask for is background mail. Is that too much to ask?

[Bud Goldfinger]

Just to let you knoe that I ordered a Centro from Verizon. I took it home and started to work with it. I've had a Palm for more years than I can remember and still use one.

I found the Centro to be a very poor Palm. The instructions are terrible and not complete. The battery starts going down almost as soon as you turn it on.

I took it back the following day. You should be able to make a Palm as good as a Blackberry.

Cordially,

Bud

[Mike M]

However that price is more than offset by the cost of the contract. The cheapest plan you can get including text messages and data is $75/mo. ($40 voice + $5 200 txt + $30 unlimited data)

[Jason]

Palm,
Why is it that the Palm Centro is a massive $299 in Canada, on a 3-year contract?!

[Tom Schmidt]

It's nice to have a lower cost smartphone, but how about a lower cost plan? Palm, PLEASE get together with Virgin Mobile USA! I want to replace my aging Tungsten C with one of your phones, but every day I get closer and closer to replacing it with an iPod touch instead. Thank you.

[Neil]

I have given up on Palm. I bought the first one, a Centro, in anticipation of buying 5 more for the business. OUCH, am I GLAD I tried it out first. PDA seemed to work fine UNTIL I SYNCed it!!! A bust. Syncing disrupted my ringer system, mixing business ringers with personal and VERY personal ringer tones.

Worse than that, the Palm software lost the color coding on my appointments, and WORSE YET, shifted my appointment times back 2-3 hours depending on which day. One even wrapped around to the next day from 7 PM. The PDA showed I have a 12 HOUR MEETING FROM 7PM TO 9AM the next morning. ...and the repeat reminder worked that time--at 11 PM at night!
I depend on my PDA as a personal assistant and missing these appointments meant money lost...Most meetings times were shifted back 2-2.5 hours over a 10 day period.

...and this loss does not even consider the last two days of MY TIME to go through WORTHLESS exercises in futility by techs who can only recite STANDARD "fixes" to this issues that SPRINT reps told me are KNOWN EXISTING ISSUES. The PALM REPS, of course, denied any such knowledge that these problems have existed since the TREO 700.

OH, as an aside, why the heck did Palm decide to take the voice message signals off the phone? There is NO longer a visual light or REPEAT option on the auditory to let a person know he/she has a voice message if he misses the initial tone/ring!!! UNBELIEVEABLE!!! They think a flashing bell ON A SCREEN THAT IS OFFF, YES OFF, WILL WORK?? What kind of programmers do you have there? We don't all live with this thing hooked to our heads!!!!!!!!!!!!! It would be nice to walk back into a room and check if I have messages with a glance for a flashing light versus having to walk over pick up the phone, hit the button, and then see if there is a message. What are you guys thinking???

[Dave]

Battery life on the Centro is pathetic - the screen quality is nice though.

The timing for the blue Centro's release was pretty freakin' unfortunate - who decided to push the blue to the public the same time as Apple's 3G iPhone? :P