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Photos: Palm Centro

Sandra Vogel ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 06 Mar 2008 12:13 GMT

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The Centro's specifications are slightly puzzling. The operating system, Palm OS 5.4.9, is the same version that appeared in the Treo 680 in late 2006. There are some additions and tweaks, but anyone familiar with Palm OS on a Treo will recognise this incarnation immediately.

The Centro is a quad-band GSM phone with GPRS and EDGE support but no 3G. It has Bluetooth and infrared, but not Wi-Fi. And unlike some of today's cutting-edge Windows Mobile and S60 devices, it lacks a GPS receiver. There's a 1.3 megapixel camera and 64MB of user-accessible memory, which can be boosted via the microSD card slot.

Compared to competing smartphones such as Nokia’s E51 or E90, or any number of Windows Mobile handhelds, the Centro's specs feel somewhat behind the times.

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