http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/ Engadget Comments for Palm Centro: Palm's next Treo, er, smartphone http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/Aug 16th 2007 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/
Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and even T-MOBILE - listen up. For the future Blackberry generation here, LOWER YOUR DATA COSTS! ]]>Aug 16th 2007 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/Aug 16th 2007 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/
as for the pictures, its clear theres a treo logo on the top left of the smaller version. if this is truly not going to be a treo then perhaps we still havent seen the real version

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My grievance that I'd have to spend $50 for unlimited laptop ev-do? And where are you pulling the $15 plan from? Hell, my texting and mobile web comes to that.

Sprints page (http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPlans?filterString=Data_Plan_Filter&id12=Shop_StartPlans_Link_DataPlans) while they do offer the cheapest of data plans.... is still nowhere near $15. It's $50. (40MB a month is a joke).

The point I'm making is, Blackberrys, Treos, iPhones and MDAs are a great product for the 15+ demographic, however, the data plan pricing, especially when factoring in tethering to a laptop (which is what I need), is outrageous!
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Cheers!

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I'm selling my iPhone the day this is released...]]>Aug 16th 2007 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/
WHAT A JOKE!

Thank god I sold my Treo!]]>Aug 16th 2007 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/"Any word on media features? Oh, wait this just in- reports state multimedia functionality still sucks."
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Wrong post? Did someone say SERO? 49.99 1250 Anytime Minutes, 7pm N&W, Free M2M, Unl Data, Unl Txt, Unl Pic & Vid Mail.. There are two other plans as well. Tethering YMMV based on handset.]]>Aug 16th 2007 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/
I don't need another phone plan though, I just need the data. Verizon has my balls in a vice grip for two years, which is okay, since I love Verizons voice service, I just need something I can use on my laptop, and getting my own PDA plan would actually possibly work. ]]>Aug 16th 2007 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/Aug 16th 2007 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/Aug 17th 2007 1:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/
This is about phones, which just need the unlimited Power Vision package, which is $15/month. If you want to tether your laptop to it, the kick you in the nuts again to the tune of $40/month.]]>Aug 16th 2007 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/]]>Aug 16th 2007 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/Aug 16th 2007 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/
Hmmmm...And if Palm announced today they were coming out with an incredible new Smartphone that has everything…………….except for 3G & MMS & no ability to do GPS navigation & no expandability of memory or applications & it cost $129 to replace the battery & it doesn’t do corporate email & the keyboard doesn’t work really well and it cost $600 you would say “they are digging their own grave”, “it sucks”, “are they kidding me” but because APPLE creates the same device it’s the greatest device ever made. “Jesus Phone” …GIVE ME A BREAK!

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Because Apple is a company that can take mediocre specs and a high price and turn the product into a hit because of their unmatched skill at advertising and design.

Palm is a has been company without a clue as to their purpose who completely refuses to innovate and at times seems intent on running themselves out of business.

That is the difference. And that is why these two companies dont get equal treatment. ]]>Aug 17th 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/
Say what you will about Apple, but their design is spot on and their user interfaces are really quite good.

It's just stupid to say that this is a phone that we'd all be thrilled with if it were Apple branded. They'd never make a product like this.]]>Aug 17th 2007 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/Because actually, my first Treo 600 didn't have 3G or MMS or GPS navigation; and barely had any internal memory (it would've cost several hundred dollars extra for external memory to equal the 8GB that iPhone comes with); and I never needed to replace the battery; and it never worked properly with my corporate email; the camera was crap; the media player was crap; the Internet access was crap; and if you recall it also started at $600. And I (along with many others) bought it thinking it was great.

But even then I remember thinking, I bet Apple could do a much better job than this. Well guess what? Now they have.]]>Sep 7th 2007 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/
palm if you're reading: get rid of windows mobile, get the phone size down to at least the E61, keep the keyboard from the 650 and others like it. ]]>Aug 16th 2007 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/
Seriously ... a full screen WM Treo would be sweet.]]>Aug 17th 2007 2:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/Aug 16th 2007 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/Aug 22nd 2007 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/
Also, that thing is remarkably ugly. Even BEFORE the iPhone, I would have called it ugly. Now it's ugly^2.
]]>Aug 17th 2007 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34784 up to date with a more decent camera, and plastic that doesn't break after 5 months of use.

A Palm Inc. version of the GSM Xplore M98 updated with UMTS, Bluetooth and 2MP camera would be a hot seller.

Just my $0.02...

FC
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Andrew]]>Sep 5th 2007 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/palm-centro-palms-next-treo-er-smartphone/Oct 2nd 2007 7:41PM