Palm's good news: The Centro is a hit. That's the bad news too

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The Centro's great

Its success isn't exactly a shock either.

Pricepoint + good product = hit.

I had no intentions of getting one, but after tinkering with the Centro for awhile I seriously considered it. It's just so tiny it completely makes you reprioritize your wants in a smartphone (pocketability suddenly became a much more important component to me.) But in the end, I opted for the HTC Touch, an even more pocketable phone, because I wanted (yes wanted) Windows Mobile instead of the Palm OS.

Some of the upcoming Treos will be very feature rich, but I doubt they'll have much success creating converts from the Blackberry legions. Treos have historically been on the higher end of the pricing scale as well and I'm not sure how they'll fare side-by-side with the iPhone, higher-end Nokias and the premium WM smartphones HTC and Sony will be cranking out (the Xperia from Sony looks absolutely amazing.)

Next gen Palm OS? At least they have a guaranteed hardware platform. But between the iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, S60, Android and the Palm OS, I could easily see Palm being the first voted off the island.

Posted by: RustyShackleford   Posted on: 03/21/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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