How To Use A Palm Router

"The Palm Centro is a good Smartphone for the average consumer, simply not"

Pros

Light and meaty
piece of cake setup; solid Internet and music admission; nice camera

Cons

Tiny keys; foreign control stick; modest screen for stylus

Summary

Like Blackberry, Palm has established itself as a generic term for any Smartphone geared towards businesspeople. Over the past couple year'southward mainstream consumers likewise began wanting more than than the average, stripped downwardly cell phone. (Indeed, 2007 could be called the year of the Smartphone.) From feel to easy-of-use, Palm seems to be gunning directly for this audience with its new Centro. It is cute and colorful – perhaps besides much and then for the traditional Palm client.

Features and Design

The Palm Centro resembles a Tic-Tac. It is pocket-size in dimensions, virtually 2 inches wide and 4 inches tall, and about a half-inch deep. The model nosotros reviewed was a cough syrup red. Most of the front is dedicated to the screen, which is about 2 inches squared. The bottom half has a full QWERTY keyboard, with a squared-off section, starting at E, defended to the number pad. The other keys have an additional subset of characters, like slash, asterisk and parentheses. They are accessed by pressing the Alt fundamental. At that place is as well a surprisingly long space bar. The remaining keys are small, like rows of corn on a cob.

A silver ring separates the height and bottom of the phone. On the band'southward far left and right are the phone call and hang up/power buttons. Towards the heart are quick buttons for call dialing, calendar, dwelling house and e-mail. In the very center is a round, wide command pad to traverse menus.

At that place are few buttons on the side, which gives the phone a smoothen appearance. On the left are the book buttons and an auxiliary "side" button (which is a programmable quick key). The tiptop has a elementary book on/off switch. The bottom has holes for various jacks and accessories.

The Palm Centro has a large screen and tiny buttons

Setup and Utilize

The Palm Centro is a snap to set up. It comes with a footstep-by-footstep CD for the PC or Mac. Kickoff the CD, connect the phone (using the included USB wire) and, subsequently waiting for almost ten minutes, the phone is ready to exist used. Like other Palms, it will HotSync to your computer. It tin link to Microsoft Outlook or create its own independent address/e-mail listings.

The CD as well has the Dart Music Managing director, an iTunes-similar program that seems to be coming standard on all Sprint phones. Later a quick setup, it volition spend several minutes finding all the music on your difficult bulldoze. The Sprint Music Manager then lets you listen to the music within the interface, get new music via the Dart store or transfer tunes to the Centro. Transferring music to the Centro is a simple drag-and-drib process.

Unfortunately, the Centro music interface itself is quite ugly. Music is found by excavation into file folders, as opposed to a straightforward music listing, and the chaotic music display is difficult to expect at. One time you lot get past the view, y'all'll find the Centro pipes out decent sound. A nice speaker is located on the back of the phone. The Centro also has enough memory to keep the music playing while you exercise other functions (albeit with an occasional ane-2nd filibuster).

Another surprise is the crisp camera. The lens view, situated side by side to the speaker, stays precise, even while in move, and the colors seem to pop correct off the screen. The short motion picture recorder is just every bit impressive. Information technology is hard to believe the Centro's photographic camera is only 1.3 megapixels – it looks better.

The telephone quality and web speed were skillful, at least equal to other Palms, the of import quality being that the Centro is smaller and lighter than almost previous models.

The Palm Centro has three firsthand problems, both stemming from physical design. First, the keyboard buttons are much smaller than the boilerplate pinky. Loquacious consumers should avoid this telephone. Second, the fat control stick is awkward, every bit if it is too pasty with certain pushes and not sticky plenty on others. Finally, the screen is a little too modest to handle a stylus. Almost people will probably stop up using their hands, particularly fans of Sprint'due south touchscreen phones.

Price

The Centro is $399.99 USD, about average for a Palm. During the holiday season Sprint has a $250 instant rebate and an additional $fifty discount if you buy it through the Sprint website. As usual, these require a 2-year commitment. The Centro falls under Dart's Power Pack plan for Smartphones. Information technology comes with a microSD carte and the necessary wires.

Conclusion

The Palm Centro is a good Smartphone for the average consumer, but non – ironically enough – physically large plenty for the hardcore Palm acolytes. The tiny keyboard poses a real trouble. That aside, the multimedia qualities – fast web, splendid camera and solid music capabilities – make it a good buy for those looking for a compact Smartphone.

Pros:

• Compact
• Piece of cake to use
• Great camera and multimedia capabilities

Cons:

• Baby keys
• Weird control stick
• Useless stylus

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