Palm Centro

price, portability, usability, battery, camera

size, reliability, sound, durability, apps

64% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Smallest, lightest Palm ; Touch screen ; QWERTY keyboard ; Palm apps

No 3G or Wi-Fi ; Basic camera and music player ; Flimsy build quality

A sexed-up Palm is a step in the right direction, but future models will need a higher spec to keep up with the competition

QWERTY keyboard, Palm OS easy to use, small, touchscreen

No 3.5mm headphone socket, no Wi-Fi, no 3G, no Bluetooth 2.0, no Java and no flash for the 1.3 megapixel camera

Everyone wants to do consumer focused smartphones "for the kids", and Palm is the latest company to try and jump on that bandwagon. In the US where the phone launched 6 months ago the marketing spiel seems to have worked, but this isn't the States. Do...

The Centro is not without its Palm charms but it’s too pedestrian to register on your smartphone radar

When Palm showed us a preproduction Centro last month, we were impressed by what we saw. The production unit largely lives up to that promise. It's not the most beautifully crafted mobile phone available, but it's a good-looking contemporary handset...

Exceptionally accessible Palm operating system. Neat and easy to use features. Excellent email program. Hugely improved battery life

No Wi-Fi, no 3G and a poor camera. In many ways this is a four-star device, but the features let it down

Touch Screen, Full qwerty keyboard, fast mobile web browsing, flight mode, better than average battery life, very expandable via app downloads, loads of accessories available, cheap

Limited amount of included software, screen goes to sleep too quickly, can't actually turn the thing off completely

The Centro is a good, easy to use smartphone. Features such as the touch screen, expansion of storage and the ability to get your email on the move go a long way to making this an incredibly desirable product. It's let down though by a sense that the...