Palm Centro smartphone arrives in Europe

The Palm Centro smartphone features extensive messaging and organiser functionality, including support for push email

Palm is bringing its small, lightweight Centro smartphone to Europe, with a UK release scheduled for the end of February

Published on Feb 7, 2008

Palm is bringing the Centro, its lightest and smallest smartphone yet, to Europe later this month. The Palm Centro, which debuted in the US last year, features a full Qwerty keyboard and a 320x320 pixels 65K-colour touchscreen, and runs on the Palm OS (rather than Windows Mobile, which recent models have employed).

The quad-band GPRS/EDGE Palm Centro smartphone features extensive messaging and organiser functionality, including support for push email and web-based mail, with software to view, create and edit Word and Exce documents, plus a viewer for PowerPoint and PDF files. The Palm Centro also has a Blazer 4.5 web browser onboard, and is preloaded with Google Mobile Maps.

A PocketTunes music player is included in the spec, and there's a basic 1.3-megapixel camera with video capture capability on the back panel. The Palm Centro has 64MB of onboard user memory, and can take MicroSD memory cards up to 4GB capacity.

Running on the Palm OS, Centro is compatible with thousands of regular Palm applications. It also offers support for Microsoft Direct Push email.

Palm is hoping that the size and relatively low-cost of the Centro will attract consumers who would usually choose a regular mobile rather than a smartphone device.

Initially available in black, the Palm Centro will sell for £199 SIM-free when it goes on sale in the UK at the end of February.