Palm Centro unboxed at Engadget Mobile

Love Palm? Love the Centro? Love unboxings? Well, it's your lucky day, because we've got a lean, mean, eye-shattering gallery going on over at Engadget Mobile, featuring a full-on unboxing of the new Palm / Sprint entry. Direct your browsers this way, and prepare to have an out-of-body experience.

[paakofi @ Oct 10th 2007 12:43PM]

Apple.

[jerbils @ Oct 10th 2007 1:03PM]

Yeah.... what about them? Your post has no relevance, unless you elaborate.

[Argot @ Oct 10th 2007 1:35PM]

Do not want.

[ethana2 @ Oct 10th 2007 1:54PM]

While we're mentioning Apple in a previously Apple-free article...

Cthulu.

...oops.

[mikew @ Oct 10th 2007 12:54PM]

Palm .... just doesn't get it!

This is still too fat, too small a screen, and too poor a browser .... other than that it's great! What's the old expression ... "Same wh*re new dress"

[Johnnyg0 @ Oct 11th 2007 8:59AM]

You're so right, who want's a smartphone that only costs 99$.. we're only in for the ones that are over 500$ right?

[Quincy @ Oct 10th 2007 1:16PM]

OMG! Look at how thick that thing is!
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/gallery/palm-centro-unboxing-1/433539/
Come on Palm. What's up wit dat? Sad so so so so sad. "Palm. We use to love thee. Yet now you're forcing us to flee." :(

[rob @ Oct 10th 2007 2:54PM]

i find it interesting how, to many people, thinner is always better. when is it thin enough? isn't it more important for the thickness to be optimally proportional to it's LxW? not that i'm saying i know what the optimal ratios are, but personally, i feel the razr/iphone/etc. are all way too thin (given their respective LxW specs) to handle in any comfortable manner.

[Quincy @ Oct 10th 2007 3:01PM]

The other areas where Palm has failed are obvious. Maybe I shouldn't have assumed that everyone would get that since it has been discussed so much. So probably my bad there. The launching of this supposedly remodeled device, supplied with several of what's become Palm's now static shortcomings is only compounded by how bad this thing actually looks. Call a spade a spade. It looks like a freakin’ brick.

[brian @ Oct 10th 2007 3:16PM]

@rob:
No, thin is in, and it makes the most sense. The RAZR is NOT way too thin, it's the right size. The problem is that when you put something in your packet you don't want it to make a big, uhm, bulge. It's not about "correct proportions". It was that type of thinking that almost killed the RAZR before they made it (focus group studies showed the "preferred" width of a phone was less than the RAZR).

The thinner the better.

[json @ Oct 10th 2007 1:56PM]

@mike
I think not including earbuds is mistake on palms part. There are plenty of cheaper model phones out there that come with them. The centro is basically a smaller treo with treo features which includes mp3 and video playback. I don't know where you live but in many states it's against the law to drive while on the phone unless your using a hands free kit. I live in NY and in my eyes it's a must have cause of the asshole drivers out here.

To everyone else who thinks this phone is to thick you must not have a smartphone bigger than the touch. I played with the centro at the digital life show and that thing is tiny. What are you comparing it against to get that it's huge, a couple of close up shots by engadget. Don't be stupid. It's almost the same size as the N95, but the N95 has wifi and GPS

[db26 @ Oct 10th 2007 2:06PM]

I don't think not having headphones doesn't matter. They would just sit in a drawer somewhere, never using them anyway.


Anyway, I think this is a great phone for the price. I will likely be getting one as long as it feels good when I get a chance to test it out. And at $99, Palm is going to sell a hell of a lot of them, no matter the OS.

[laughallway2bank @ Oct 10th 2007 3:08PM]

"Order your Centro today with Sprint service for only $99.*


*After instant discount, mail-in rebate, and qualifying two-year Sprint service agreement.

now the question is to get this or that new blackberry w/ built in GPS. (it would have been nice if this had that)

p.s. you gotta love the glitter in that black case

[Quix @ Oct 10th 2007 2:08PM]

This phone looks great - if this were 2001. Serious Palm, it's called industrial design. Give it a try sometime - it seems to be working for others (Apple).

[David Jacobs @ Oct 10th 2007 2:21PM]

Palm is dead to me. Too many mistakes for too many years.

[b_a_boone @ Oct 10th 2007 3:15PM]

Saw the phone in person it's small fit's great in large or small hands, the pic doesn't do it justice and who knows the person holding it could have small hands.

More important: It's an inexpensive PDA for those that need simple functionality. For those that are advanced users this isn't the phone for you so why down it?

I'm hoping Sprint gets the touch slide, I would get it day one, I love my ppc-6700 wm6 but come on the mogul isn't that much better.

Apple addicts please stop posting your GSM comments on CDMA articles.

[anonymouspimp @ Oct 10th 2007 4:42PM]

Looking at the photos, it doesn't look that much bigger than my BlackBerry 7105t, which I think is pretty comfortable in my hands.

If I was on Sprint and I was looking for a cheap smartphone, I wouldn't rule this out.

But, I am a T-mobile kinda guy, so i'll be getting the new Curve :)

[Sirocco @ Oct 10th 2007 5:38PM]

More unboxing madness? Please, when will it all end?

[Sirocco @ Oct 10th 2007 5:43PM]

Between this and my vermicelli al fredo, I just can't decide.

[RD Gibson @ Oct 10th 2007 9:54PM]

Sprint requires the $39.95 DUNS data plan with all Blackberry phones. The Centro (and other EV-DO Sprint phones)can be had with the $15 unlimited data plan or no data plan at all. A compelling reason to go with the non-Blackberry phone.

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Oct 12th 2007 8:11PM]

centro is not that bad. glad im with sprint