Palm presentation at the DigitalLife Expo to launch the Centro smartphone, its first non-Treo smartphone. Targeted at users who may not at all have owned a smartphone sooner than or are looking for amazing straightforward, the design is less significant than any of Palm’s prior phones. It also has a new, packed together design comparable to the Treo 500v that fits more simply into a pouch without sacrificing a full QWERTY grand piano. In spite of the size and its low-cost importance, however, it also shares numerous of the same facial appearance as first-class models with a 1.3-megapixel camera, 3G-level EVDO Internet access, and a 320×240 touch screen. The device runs on the PalmOS and ships with a devoted media player that loads music either from the 64MB of onboard flash or microSD cards up to 4GB, even for confined Windows Media tracks from Yahoo Music and similar stores.

The early version of the Centro ships with Sprint and will have quite a lot of hooks into Internet services. Google Maps, multi-network moment messaging, You Tube, and “push” e-mail from Outlook are supported. Sprint itself provides right of entry to streaming Internet video through Sprint TV and access to news updates from the carrier’s on require service. Users can side load music through Sprint’s Music Manager Software, though no talk about is made of at the bottom of the company’s online music store.

Sprint will put on the market the phone in Onyx (black) and Ruby (red) from October 14th for $100 after signing a two-year agreement. The company claims a 90-day fashionable on the device in the US, after which it can launch with Verizon in its in progress form or switch to GSM for providers including AT&T and T-Mobile. International releases were not mention at press time; however, Palm promises sync carry for both Mac OS X and Windows PCs on start on.

“Life starts after five o’clock. That’s why there’s the Palm® Centro™ smartphone. Palm Centro gives you voice, text, IM, email and web,1 all in a phone that’s a lot smaller than you think. It even has a touchscreen and a full keyboard, so you can say L8R to those tricky keys on your cell phone. Carry names and numbers, shoot photos and video, and meet up with friends. Centro. Let’s go.

Approx prize $99.2.