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Photos: Palm Centro

Sandra Vogel ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 06 Mar 2008 12:13 GMT

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Design-wise the Centro is clearly a Palm product, although it's differentiated from devices in the Treo range. Palm is trying to appeal to both business users and consumers — a difficult trick to pull off when it comes to design.

The Centro weighs 124g and measures 107mm tall by 53mm wide by 18mm thick. Palm has fitted a QWERTY keyboard into the Centro, although it's extremely cramped: despite the keys being significantly raised, we were unable to type at anything like our optimum speed for a handheld. Heavy mobile email users may wish to look elsewhere.

The top-mounted mute button is a legacy from the old Treo handsets, and is extremely useful for those times when silence is required. All mobile phones and handhelds should incorporate a similar simple switch. On the other hand, the proprietary connectors for power and PC synchronisation may irritate those accustomed to using USB for both tasks.

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