http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/ Engadget Comments for More Palm Centro details leaked for Sprint 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/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/
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This shows the new handsets with the Treo included in the mix for a size comparison and the new UMPC that sprint will be launching .

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Vogue and centro were both very nice
One thing i noticed while looking at the Vogue is that it was not running the standard OMAP 850, it was running a Qualcom 700 clocked at 400mhz with 256 rom and 128 ram. i noticed no slowdown at all even after picking it up with 15-20 apps running on it from everyone playign with it (call center of about 900 people)

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The centro and palm for side by side comparison

After playing with both for about an hour i noticed little to no difference in typing on the qwerty with the centro to the treo. the centro was much nicer to hold in hand and accomplished everything with the polish that the Treo series are known for,

Peace
Tyler]]>Sep 11th 2007 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/
Earlier post about the WinMo version hitting the European streets.]]>Sep 11th 2007 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 2:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/
Too bad I want a GSM device to replace my Treo650.]]>Sep 11th 2007 2:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 3:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 3:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/

Seriously though, many of the apps that I run on a Treo would work better if they could run properly in the background. Email and instant messaging quickly come to mind if you don't have a push service. Multitasking would also likely come with a bit more memory protection between apps; this would help avoid seeing Palm OS crater quite as frequently due to an action of a bug in an app.

I bought a 755 in the last week (my 6th consecutive PalmOS based smart phone), but that doesn't mean I enjoy Palm's software stagnation.]]>Sep 11th 2007 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/
I for one find this device veryyy intriguing. I'll still be waiting for the new OS but that's just because I don't have the money.]]>Sep 11th 2007 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/
As Miguel noted above, the announced Treo 500 does not have touch-screen - so nothing 'obviously' about it.

Palm's products have but one consistency these days - they'll behind the curve of every other smartphone out there.

There are still days when I swap out my SIM from my 680 to a much smaller and pocketable 'real' cell phone and toss my 'old' (but far more usable) TX into my satchel. ]]>Sep 11th 2007 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/>As Miguel noted above, the announced Treo 500 does not have touch-screen - so nothing 'obviously' about it.

This Centro is a Palm OS device, so it IS obvious that it has a touchscreen. Windows Mobile Smartphone / Standard (whatever they call it this month) is based around non-touchscreen (as in the Moto Q and the BlackJack). You know any Palm OS devices without a touchscreen? thought not - now go back to sleep!
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Incredible! What a whining bitchfest this site becomes every time the Garnet OS is mentioned, bloggers and users alike. Granted, the OS could use such niceties as multitasking plus all that iPhone UI slickness that most people here--bloggers and users alike--drool over. Still, for all of the Garnet OS's limitations, real or imagined, I prefer to use it via my Palm Treo 680 any old time than the Sony Ericsson P1i I acquired recently. Why? In terms of powerful technologies and eye candy, sure, the P1i and its Symbian/UIQ OS win hands-down. With my Palm Treo 680, I bought and installed DialbyPhoto to have similar GUI goodness--but ultimately I reverted back to the default Palm Phone application. Again, why? Because it was and is far easier and more intuitive and more responsive to use, which can also be said for much of the well-designed Garnet OS applications. With the Treo 680, I can work my way around various applications with barely a need to whip out the stylus, which I can't say the same for the P1i (which will remain a keepsake, notwithstanding) or even the so-called touch-driven HTC touch. Given the nature--or predisposition--of this site, its editors/bloggers and its users, this may sound old but it remains true: the simplicity, the ease-of-use inherent in a Palm device--smartphone or handheld--remains second to none. Given the complexity of other platforms--which perhaps explains why so many power features remain unused by consumers--that quality, that virtue of what you derisively call as "Garnet on a Q4 2007 release--puh-lease" is nothing to sneeze at.

And, trying-hard-to-be-smart Barbra "puh-lease" Streisand wannabe, what smart invention have you come up with so far?]]>Sep 11th 2007 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/
I prefer Garnet to Windows Mobile (which in my view is a disaster) but let's face it: it is clunky and slow and hangs all the time (even after a clean install).

So (again) what exactly is the point of this device other than some marketing to fool people into thinking that Palm is actually putting out new products. This has a different name and it looks a bit different but this is the same device that's been on the market for years now. I hope at very least there's a better CPU in it.]]>Sep 11th 2007 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/more-palm-centro-details-leaked-for-sprint/Sep 11th 2007 11:32AM