Palm Centro gets down with the kids
Palm Inc has unveiled its new youth-orientated smartphone, the Palm Centro.
Nicely styled and available in a rather fetching ‘iPalm’ white, the Centro is an unashamed attempt by Palm to ditch the stuffy spreadsheets, kick off the brogues, slip into some Etnies, grab the snowboard and get on down with the kids.
As if to ram this last point home, the Centro website features a series of excruciating images of painfully trendy, overly self-confident preppy young folk. They’re laughing manically at whatever it is that happens to be filling the two-inch colour screen on their Centros. The whole point, remember, is that you can be just like them…
But enough of our jaded cynicism. A closer inspection of the Centro itself reveals that it’s basically a scaled down version of Palm’s decidedly more grown-up Treo 500 - a smartphone, only with a slightly lower IQ if you will.
tech.co.uk