Story, Palm, box
If we say Palm, then most users will have the word palmtop pop into their minds. However, not many people really know what does this word mean, as usually people call this way the PDAs manufactured by Californian Palm (estd. 1992), even though this is a collector noun for all palm devices – and furthermore usually even older machines are called this way, as this word has became a common use in the era of Handheld PCs, and not Pocket PCs. In the last couple of years we could have heard a lot about this company, that has been through better times, but usually related to near-bankruptcy situations, financial breakdowns and not to perfect devices. The devices manufactured by the company have been running PalmOS as an operating system for a very long time. The latest version of this has been 5.4.9 for a long time now. The renowned company had nothing to do against the spreading of Windows Mobile, so they have launched a number of handsets with Microsoft's operating system. This has been one of the reasons to make PalmOS outdated by now, and it is known mostly by those who have been in this industry for a long time.
Things seem to change, however, as the American company has announced last fall a quite cheap PalmOS-based device – this is the subject of our current review, Centro. The handset is officially sold by Sprint and AT&T, which shows that the main target market is the Unites States. In those parts, after signing a loyalty-contract, the phone can be bought for $99 USD, which resulted in more than one million pieces sold by now, and this is a pretty good result for such a palm device in half a year's time. A couple of months ago the handset has become available in Europe too, and recently it has appeared in our country too, so thanks to SpeedShop we have also received one. To tell the truth this is the first PalmOS-based handset that I have to review, so I will probably be astonished by some things that mean nothing new for someone who has already used such a device – and I'd like to beg everyone's pardon for this in advance.
The device comes in a mid-sized package, which had a charger (with a changeable head), a data cable and a mono headset inside. A leather case and a stereo could have been included, I must say.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
