[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.