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Palm Centro
This Palm® Centro is no longer available.
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263 out of 327 (80%) reviewers recommend this product
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- The device offers a sleek, compact design with a full QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen display, enabling easy texting, emailing, and web browsing.
- It has an intuitive interface, robust PDA capabilities, and impressive camera and multimedia features.
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Features, 4.3 out of 54.3
Most helpful favorable review
5 out of 5 stars.
Excellent First Time Smartphone
18 years ago
Being a teenager, this is my first upgrade from a RAZR V3 I believe. Needless to say, this is an improvement.
For those of us without the need for a business phone, just for texting phone usage and casual internet this is the right phone. The battery, is incredible for those who do not stay connected to the internet. I went without the internet or calling for one day, just text, and the battery lasted over 7 hours before I got home and started charging it.
THe Documents to go is my favorite feature, other than the following, because I can start working on a homework essay before getting home. The case feels fragile, but seems to be resistant. The battery cover is EXTREMELY hard to open, and I am afraid of breaking it. The screen seems scratch resistant, I feel no need to buy a case as of yet.
Though small, my FAVORITE feature includes the touchpad number screen. Like most QWERTY phones the number keys on the keyboard do not include the numbers asscoiated with those numbers, ie 1 has 'abc' etc. On the touchpad screen on the Centro the numbers include the letters, good for radio station numbers and the like. IT really bothered me that other QWERTY phones did not have this feature.
The phone is MUCH smaller than you think, a little larger than my folded razr believe it or not. the keyboard makes my fingers a little cramped, but since I've only had it two days I am already quite used to it and I expect it to get better.
I, personally, have used both this phone and the iPhone, and I feel this phone is better for me- less fragile, this keyboard is faster AND it has a feature that lets you select the intensity of the backlight, so in class when the lights are off for a power point or movie the teacher cannot see you texting by the back light, which has happened to me before. This phone is amazing and I strongly recommend it to younger people who only need casual technology.
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2 out of 5 stars.
BIG Let down
18 years ago
I was really excited when I got it!
But then I had it.
DON'T GET THIS PHONE!
It breaks so easily and is def. the cheap version of any PDA phone. I was really dissappointed becuase I really liked the software, display, ect. But the screen broke after 3 days and I didn't even hit it on anything - it's just cheap and delicate. Don't put this phone in your pocket inless you want to pay $300 to get it fixed.
I have had phones fron Blackberrys to LG's to Motorolas, and this is by far the biggest let down. My friend has another PALM, and is awesome however, but the Centro is extremely cheap and I wouldn't be suprised to hear a recall on it soon.
Sorry to be such a downer! Just though I'd give you the heads up!
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3 out of 5 stars.
was so excited to have it.. then i got it....
16 years ago
i was extremely excited to get this phone! but.. when i got it, i realized that the battery was absolutely TERRIBLE. i text at least 100-150 texts ingoing and outgoing a day. and i'd have to charge it every night. in the morning it would say battery fully charged.. then by the afternoon it'd say battery extremely low--shut down NOW in [and then in it'd count back from 30 and then shut down your phone!] but otherwise.. the pictures and camera were great. oh, and when i'd text and push on the buttons, it would squeak somehow because of the back to the phone. you might be hearing that the keys are way to small for texting, but for a 13 year old girl, they're ideal:) [thats probably the one thing i liked about this phone!] oh, and it's also thee perfect size to fit in pockets! and you get service in a LOT of places where you wouldn't think! and it's not too light to be dropping all the time, and not too heavy to be dragging around all the time. it's like perfect when you look at it.. i have also dropped it like a hundred times.. it freezes up a LOTTTTT. i am soo exchanging this phone :/ and the memory is TEERRRIIIBBBLLLEEE when you don't have an external memory little card that goes into the side!!!!!!! i also got it and it came with NO GAMES. BOGUS.
Proscamera/video quality, durable, games, good for texting
Consbattery life, durability, freezes, limited memory, software bugs, volume level
No, I do not recommend this product.
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Features
Features, 2.0 out of 52.0
Ease of use
Ease of use, 4.0 out of 54.0
Battery life
Battery life, 1.0 out of 51.0
Display
Display, 5.0 out of 55.0
4 out of 5 stars.
Great
16 years ago
This phone works great it has lasted a long time you should buy one they work really great. BUY THIS PHONE!!!
Prosbattery life, camera/video quality, durable, ease of use, good for texting, speaker, tools
Conssmall keys
Yes, I recommend this product.
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Features
Features, 3.0 out of 53.0
Ease of use
Ease of use, 4.0 out of 54.0
Battery life
Battery life, 4.0 out of 54.0
Display
Display, 5.0 out of 55.0
4 out of 5 stars.
WOW.
16 years ago
awesome phone. great texting once you get used to it. im very happy with my purchase. as my first phone it was a good beginner phone as for dropping it a ton. the small keys make it hard to text people say, but you just have to get used to it. it also makes your texting convorsations instead of singular messages. but you can change that. i would reccomend it. but if you dont want to text... dont buy it.
Prosbattery life, camera/video quality, durable, good for texting, speaker, tools
Consbulky/heavy, freezes, poor navigation, complicated.
Yes, I recommend this product.
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Features
Features, 3.0 out of 53.0
Ease of use
Ease of use, 2.0 out of 52.0
Battery life
Battery life, 3.0 out of 53.0
Display
Display, 4.0 out of 54.0
2 out of 5 stars.
ehh|:
16 years ago
This phone was only good the first week i had it. After that it started freezing up and 2 of the buttons got stuck. I have gone through 5 of these phones in less than a year. Its complicated at first, and Im learning to dislike it more and more every day.
Proscamera/video quality
Consbattery life, bulky/heavy, durability, freezes, limited memory, operating system, small keys, volume level
No, I do not recommend this product.
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Features
Features, 3.0 out of 53.0
Ease of use
Ease of use, 3.0 out of 53.0
Battery life
Battery life, 2.0 out of 52.0
Display
Display, 2.0 out of 52.0
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