Palm Centro hits the magical one million mark

by Paul Miller posted Mar 31st 2008 at 5:44PM

Palm's miniscule and wallet-friendly Centro has managed to reach one million units sold since its launch last September. It got its legs working as Sprint and AT&T's gateway smartphone at that fantastic $99 pricepoint, and now it's making a bid for world domination in major markets in Europe and Asia. The one million sales have it nipping at the heels of recent superstar smartphones, the two million plus HTC Touch and the four million plus iPhone, not bad company in the least.

Filed under: Handsets, Palm, ATT, Sprint, Palm OS

Tags: centro, one million, OneMillion, palm

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ESLKid75 @ Mar 31st 2008 6:17PM

I've got a Centro, and it's awesome. So many features for so little dough. Take that, iPhone! :-)

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OziD @ Apr 1st 2008 1:50AM

It missed on some things, but I'm not complaining. Mine does everything advertised and more pretty well. And for 99 bucks, I bought two.

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Chuck @ Mar 31st 2008 7:30PM

Agreed! Until the iPhone can compete with a $99 with contract price, it's the Centro for me.

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Gib @ Mar 31st 2008 7:50PM

wow thats cool. nice job palm

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helixtimestwo @ Mar 31st 2008 11:32PM

Good device, but the Garnet OS needed a change like 3 years ago.

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Constable Odo @ Apr 2nd 2008 12:04PM

Wow! A whole million. It's gone platinum. Oh wait! That's only for records. One million handsets means almost nothing. .01% of the handset market. No wonder Palm's stock is down. They're probably making little profit on this Centro for $99. Well at least it has a lot of features for so little "D'oh".

All joking aside, it does offer a lot for the money, but it also comes up short when compared to the iPhone or a BlackBerry.

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L. Green @ Apr 1st 2008 4:50AM

>>Good device, but the Garnet OS needed a change like 3 years ago.

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Les Green @ Apr 1st 2008 4:55AM

hmmm...OK. Let's try that again.

What do you expect for 99 bucks? It does all the basic stuff with 'old' Garnett. Email, PIM,Web, hundreds of 3rd party apps. Good enough for me and apparently a million others.

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helixtimestwo @ Apr 1st 2008 11:17AM

Myself included in that 1million. It's a good entry-level smartphone that does simple to moderate tasks well. But Palm has been losing money even with the high quantity of Centros sold while Apple, HTC, and RIM post profits, hence the need for Palm to have an innovative UI/killer app.. Palm can't sustain itself if their only competitive edge is a low-priced (and low margin) smartphone.

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Kirk @ Apr 1st 2008 11:25AM

And yet, we never see anyone in the northern virginia, washington dc area with one....

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Mr Nick @ Jun 2nd 2008 9:48PM

Everybody loves bashing Palm. True, the OS is old... very old. BUT it is blazingly fast (even compared to the iPhone, sorry guys) and the biggest asset it has, that no other handset OS even comes close to, are the MILLIONS of third-party programs for it -many of them free.

And it's about damned time they slimmed down that brick of a Treo.