AT&T Palm Centro: First Palm OS smartphone with XM
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 5:41 PM
Tags: 2, XM
AT&T today started offering the Centro, Palm's new flagship smartphone based on the Palm OS platform. The GSM quad-band Centro comes with multimedia capabilities and several services exclusive to AT&T.
The $100 smartphone also comes with a touch screen, a full QWERTY keyboard, and is the first Palm OS-based smartphone to come with XM Radio Mobile.
It is the smallest and the lightest smartphone offered by Palm, and now comes in the new Glacier white color with green keypad accents. A second color, Obsidian black, will debut in about a month.
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Palm? What, MS-DOS wasn't available?
Posted by: JonE | February 19, 2008 6:33 PM
Cool buy AT&Ts GSM netwok sux... If this is on the EDGE, then take it from me, it sux
Posted by: The Squeaky Wheel | February 19, 2008 6:50 PM
Is this 3g only? Sideload?
Posted by: Mat | February 19, 2008 7:13 PM
Does this just have online on it, or does this get a sat signal or load the full channel lineup from an online feed?
If only we could get this on something like the HTC TyTn II and have it pull the full sat feed and NavTraffic, I would be absolutely set.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward | February 19, 2008 7:47 PM
Too bad it isn't Sirius or I'd buy one or two.
Who wants XM when 7.6 out of 10 at retail buy Sirius.
Dumb move T.
Posted by: Plowboy | February 19, 2008 8:19 PM
Where did you get that number? Prove that 7.6 out of 10 choose Sirius. I don't believe you. Why would so many people choose to listen to that mess?
Posted by: Wharfe | February 20, 2008 6:38 AM
If that many people do choose Sirius, it's probably because they are current subscribers trying to replace BROKEN radios because they were junk.
Posted by: Wharfe | February 20, 2008 6:41 AM
plow boy is refering to retail Gross numbers for sirius and XM without taking in to account what other places and what quantities XM is in already out there.
Gross total subscribers have been pretty much even and the only reason Sirius is or has been beating XM is due to the longer OEM pre paid "trial" subscription. (with the exception of the "Stern Effect")
Posted by: jeff | February 20, 2008 7:52 AM
...back to the phone, boys...anyone go to a store and check one out yet? Looks nice, but I think I'll hold off for the 3g iPhone. My wife has the current iPhone and it is pretty sweet. Add 3G and voice dialing and I may jump from Verizon. My wife has had great reception and no dropped calls....perhaps AT&T's signal improved when they acquired Cingular...
Posted by: iband | February 20, 2008 9:26 AM
It's getting closer to my dream device a full-functioning next-gen InnoPhone where I can finally have just one device for everything.
Posted by: Getting Closer to my Dream | February 20, 2008 9:44 AM
AT&T aquired cingular so many years before the name change, besides cingulars signal was week then. Cingulars signal was not an improvement.
Palm has a new operating system.
You can get this on a Tilt.
I can get Sirius on my Mogul.
Posted by: another thought | February 20, 2008 10:37 AM
XM Radio Mobile it isn't.
Instead of frustrating yourself with this, get a Pioneer Inno and some antenna headphones. Then you will have *real* XM Radio Mobile.
Posted by: JazzFan | February 20, 2008 10:40 AM
How many of the XM channels does it get, and is it just music.
Posted by: RonAndFezNoonTo2:40 | February 20, 2008 12:06 PM
You gotta wonder what is wrong with AT&T's 3-G Network. Why are all these new devices (Treo/iPhone) still on Edge? Can the 3-G network accommodate all the traffic or are there other technological reasons why AT&T is allowing Edge devices?
I think universal 3-G is vaporware.
Posted by: Jay | February 20, 2008 6:04 PM