Palm Centro coming to T-Mobile, too?

by Chris Ziegler posted Jan 28th 2008 at 8:58AM

An AT&T-branded Palm Centro pretty much seems like a foregone conclusion at this point, but what about that other GSM carrier over there? Yep, the latest rumor has Palm's smallest, cheapest handset heading over to T-Mobile at some point, owing to some giggling (no, seriously) by Palm's CFO when asked about the prospects. The move would make some sense considering that Sprint and Palm are both pleased as punch with the Centro's brisk sales and the fact that Sprint's period of exclusivity is drawing to a close. Interestingly, it also sounds like any possibility of a Verizon Centro is in jeopardy following the 755p delay debacle. Drama!

[Via Everything Centro, thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Filed under: Handsets, Palm, T-Mobile, Palm OS, GSM, EDGE

Tags: centro, palm, rumor, t-mobile

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Matthew Nelson @ Jan 28th 2008 11:17AM

Will it work on T-Mobile 3G? (1700 Mhz UMTS I think)

If so, this might be worthwhile.

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Nando @ Jan 28th 2008 1:20PM

I was going to ask the same thing.

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bulls96 @ Jan 28th 2008 11:20AM

this looks suspiciously exactly like the AT&T picture, couls easily erase the at&T and put T-mobile in there...

I'd be happy for Palm though if it gets the Centro to all major networks :D

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Uhhh @ Jan 28th 2008 11:49AM

Haha, I was thinking the exact same thing.

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The D Train @ Jan 28th 2008 1:16PM

It *IS* the same picture thats why. Same exact posistion of everything in the picture. shenangians.

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robinsmad @ Jan 28th 2008 1:27PM

Because that's what they did. I have no idea why Engadget posted a Photoshopped image.

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Chris Ziegler @ Jan 28th 2008 1:37PM

Sorry for the confusion, guys, thought it was clear from the text of the post and the fact that this *is* identical to the AT&T picture... yep, this is a Photoshop I whipped up.

Chris

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bulls96 @ Jan 28th 2008 12:32PM

THis will probably be after the AT&T Centro though.
offtopic: where's the Foleo review engadget?

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JAmerican @ Jan 28th 2008 12:39PM

Wow first Treo back since Treo 600. LOL! Well technically since its a Centro, I guess they really didn't bring the Treo back to T-Mobile. I never understood why they stopped selling their phones through T-Mobile. It always thought it was because T-Mobile loves WiFi and Palm hates it.

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Matt @ Jan 28th 2008 5:16PM

Have you guys seen this thing at the store? First of all it's quite fuggly...and then the buttons are SO TINY that only the Generation S (that's Sidekick) would be able to do typing on it; frankly Sidekick buttons are bigger than on Centro. I hope someone (or something called a bankruptcy) will put companies like Palm with their Palm OS and Moto with the Synergy/RAZR shit out of their misery and just let them die. The OS they're loading on their devices is so behind that it's almost sickening to look at those devices. I'm a Symbian lover and looking at that OS it's light years ahead of Palm and Synergy. I'll give kudos to Microsoft for innovation and forward thinking with their OS. Yet Moto and Palm seem to be stuck in 2000 and think that they can keep pushing obsolete pieces of junk in the days where people are finally willing to fork out a full price for a kick ass devices (Nokia N series, Windows Mobile, iPhone...all in the price range of $400-800).

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Kasona @ Jan 28th 2008 7:23PM

Yes!! this would be excellent news! Despite its age, Palm OS 5 has a very large library of excellent 3rd party software. I bought a Dash this summer cause T-Mobile didn't have a Treo, and while the phone is great, I miss some of the apps from my Palm handhelds.

Also the Palm OS is much simpler than WM6, especially for a user who is new to smartphones. my old Palms also seem faster and more responsive than my Dash.

And while it would be disappointing not to have wifi on the Centro, I rarely use the wifi on my Dash since getting a data plan.

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Palm Stuff @ Feb 3rd 2008 12:13AM

T-MOBILE WILL NOT CARRY PALM PRODUCTS ANYMORE
(warning: my spelling is awful, I apoligize, I am dutch...english is not my language)having said that;

lets get a few things straight here: on the dutch websites they only sell windows operated centro's, they are actually not called centro's, but "treo 500".
the second model is called a treo 500v, the v stands for vodafone where that model will be locked into.

T-MOBILE US will NOT carry any palm devices as they have an exclusivity contract with HTC. they are not allowed to make any deals with other smartphone companies. this was told to me by an official t-mobile corporate store representative in los angeles last week. I asked him : "then what about the blackberry? isn't that competition for HTC then?" his answer was: "those are not smartphones, those are email-devices".

so if we go by this official t-mobile store information, we will have to focus on and unlock that at&t phone fast in order to replace our good old unlocked treo 680's, 650's (and some die hard 600's:-) please correct me (or better said correct this sales rep) if you have more current information.