Comments Palm Centro

  It's no secret that Palm remains on the flow mainly because of the inexpensive Centro smartphones. Until today, Centro were only available to subscribers of several foreign operators, but the company decided to release the smart phones on the free market. This means, that very soon, it will be possible to buy a GSM-version of Palm Centro at a price of around $ 300. Together with the above stated, the Palm representatives have declared that in the list of standard software will be included such useful tools from Google as Maps and My Location, which allows the user to determine its location and display it on the map. For the operators’ Centro versions, later will be released a special update that will add the Google services.

  A couple of months ago, on the web has appeared the information that another U.S. operator Verizon Wireless will begin selling the Palm Centro smartphone. And if then we could not tell you exactly when Verizon Wireless will begin selling this smartphone and how much it will cost, now we will share this information. The internet portal PhoneArena has reported that Palm Centro will be on sale from June 13. Without a contract with Verizon Wireless, it will cost $ 389.99, when signing a two-year contract, it’s slightly cheaper - $ 269.99. Source: GSMpress ®

Communicator Palm Pre achieved good indicator of the level of sales, both fell in love as many users of mobile communications. However, since many of the owners of Palm Pre were upset to find the defects of their devices.   According to analyst company Jesup & Lamont Kevin Dede (Kevin Dede) percentage return Communicator Palm Pre reaches 40%, significantly higher than average rates. Almost half of the users complained about the factory defects Communicator Palm Pre, mainly problems with the speakers and on, but the manufacturer has no comment on the situation. Analyst Kevin Dede advised to sell shares of Palm.   Source: GSMPress ®  

  Palm company is getting through hard times. A decline in revenue is expected to last through the Q3 2009. Moreover, the demand for Centro and Treo devices has reduced probably because the new Palm Pre has already been announced and is highly anticipated by consumers. These circumstances only aggravate the situation and Palm cannot start shipping its new smartphone as the company hasn’t got enough cash means for that. Palm CEO says that the company “got a difficult transition period to work through” and the new smartphone is slated to start shipping in the first half of 2009.  

  CrunchGear says that Palm is presenting its new slider smartphone with a large touchscreen display and full QWERTY keyboard, running under Nova operating system. As expected, the new phone functionally resembles iPhone and as for the capabilities of the operating system and supported software, there will be a great speech about them at CES this Thursday.  

  Palm just recently launched its latest Windows Mobile Professional smartphone, the Palm Treo Pro and thanks to Palm Germany and Vodafone Germany, I got my hands on Palm's Treo 750 follower, which went available across Europe exclusively from Vodafone. Running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and powered by a Qualcomm MSM7201 CPU at 400 MHz, the Treo Pro features quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and triband UMTS/HSDPA, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and GPS capabilities. The inbuilt 256 MB ROM and 128 MB RAM can be expanded with microSDHC memory cards up to 32 GB and while the device lacks a front facing camera for video telephony, it features a 2.0 megapixel main camera on the back. Quite nice is the flush transflective color touchscreen which features Palm's typical 320 x 320 pixel screen resolutions and which allows Palm to leave the two hardware soft-keys in favor of using the touchscreen instead. The overall design looks pretty elegant since the housing features a kind of glossy piano-black design: