Here is their press release: ======================================= PALM CENTRO NOW AVAILABLE ON THE VERIZON WIRELESS NETWORK Centro Debut on the Nation's Most Reliable Wireless Network Offers Customers a High-Speed Communications Device with Compact Form Factor, Easy Touch-Screen and Full QWERTY Keyboard BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Verizon Wireless, builder and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless network, and Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM), today announced that the Palm® Centro™ smartphone will be available online at Cell Phones, Cell Phone Plans, Cell Phone Accessories - Verizon Wireless and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores beginning June 13. Dressed in a crisp cobalt blue, the Centro provides customers with the perfect tool to manage the busiest of lifestyles with voice, text messaging, e-mail and the Web. Centro runs on Verizon Wireless’ high-speed data network, which gives customers the ability to quickly send and receive e-mail messages and attachments and browse rich Web content. Verizon Wireless customers can also use the Centro as a modem for their laptops when they subscribe to Verizon Wireless’ BroadbandAccess Connect service plan. The handset sports a vibrant color touch-screen, full QWERTY keyboard and a lightweight design. Centro’s built-in Google Maps™ application delivers quick, reliable directions and lets users perform local searches and view moveable/scalable maps, satellite imagery and traffic updates. Customers can also map a contact’s address directly from the contact application simply by selecting the “maps” button. Customers using the stylish Centro will get access to VersaMail® 4.0 with built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® support for Microsoft Direct Push Technology to deliver e-mail and calendar updates from a home or office PC using Outlook® directly to their handsets. Centro users also have the option of using Wireless Sync, Verizon Wireless’ proprietary e-mail solution, for quick and easy access to personal or corporate e-mail, contacts, calendar and tasks from their home or office PC. Wireless Sync supports POP3 or IMAP e-mail accounts and it supports Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes® and IBM Lotus Domino®. The Palm Centro also includes the following features and capabilities: • Text, picture and video messaging (text messages are presented to customers in a “chat-style” view so customers can see their entire conversation unfold) • Superior phone functionality, including one-touch speakerphone and conference calling, the ability to respond to a call with text messaging, and the option to use the touch-screen dial pad • Smart, fast Web browsing using the award-winning Blazer browser • 2x digital zoom camera with video capture • Media player with Pocket Tunes™ Deluxe (PlaysForSure-compatible) • Bluetooth® v. 1.2 with support for hands-free car kits and headset profiles • 64 MB available user storage and microSD™ memory card slot with support up to 4 GB • User-friendly, familiar Palm OS® 5.4.9, including one-touch access to key applications • Small, sleek form factor: 2.1” (l) x 4.2” (w) x 0.7” (d) • 4.2 ounces with battery • 320 x 320 pixel color touch-screen and full QWERTY keyboard for easier e-mail, messaging and Web use Pricing and Availability The Palm Centro smartphone will be available online at Cell Phones, Cell Phone Plans, Cell Phone Accessories - Verizon Wireless and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, including those in Circuit City, for $99.99 after a $70 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers may want to pair their Centro voice plan with Verizon Wireless’ E-mail and Web for Smartphone service for $29.99. This is an unlimited monthly data plan for Web browsing and e-mail support and includes personal e-mail accounts. To tether the Centro to a laptop with a USB cable, customers may opt to include a BroadbandAccess Connect plan in their service package for $30. For more information about Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to Cell Phones, Cell Phone Plans, Cell Phone Accessories - Verizon Wireless. Business customers may call 1-800-VZW-4BIZ or contact their Verizon Wireless Business Sales Representative.
You know what this makes me actually very happy. Although I would not use the internet I would love to have this phone to use as my every day phone. I used this on Sprint and enjoyed every minute of it.
Wirelessly posted (Walkguru's: Opera/9.50 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/4.1.11328/524; U; en)) is it really 2 hundred bucks?
"for $99.99 after a $70 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement" so pay 169.99 then get 70 back....
I bet you after a little while the online store will have an online instant discount so it will be a flat $100 out the door.
You know Mike I was thinking the same thing. Seems Verizon is getting a little better with their phones.
ok, great i thought i read somewhere that they were 200, so this is great that their finually getting it. and 100 is the same price as att and sprint.
Considering CDMA phones are generally less jazzy than their mass-produced GSM siblings, Big Red isn't doing too bad. And it's only going to get better...
