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Palm Centro review, an excellent phone

The Palm Centro is the latest smartphone powered by Palm OS. Some people have said that the Centro is a Treo on a diet. It is slimmer, shorter and lighter than the Treo 680. The Centro has the looks that target the youth, who yearn for a feature packed device with QWERtY keyboard and smartphone features all in a small and light form factor.

Palm Centro looks so small in my hands

Ergonomics and usability

This device weighs at 124gm which is not that light, but considering it being a smartphone, that is not a big figure. It is still lighter than most of the smartphone in the market.The device has nice curves and being small in size, it can easily be operated by one-hand. This is a nice news for the people who don’t want to use both hands to operate the device. The D-pad works well in navigating through the features of the device. The ‘answer’ and ‘end’ are big and easy-to-reach. My thumb was able to get to every part of the screen if I want to use my thumb instead of d-pad. The Centro looks different from other phones. It has front-face QWERTY keyboard but does not look like blackberry. It looks different from the HTC and SE UIQ devices.

It is powered by Palm OS!

Now, the exclamation(!) mark above depicts both happiness and sadness about the Palm OS. Palm OS has been the easiest operating systems ever according to me. It is easier than iPhone. It is simple, fast and stable. Anyone can get accostomed to it very easily as the whole interface is very intutive.
Here comes the bad part. Being powered by Palm OS, it can not multi-tasking. But, due to some nice optimisations done in the device by Palm, it can run media player(Pocket Tunes) in the background while you can do other stuff. Palm OS has great support of applications. For the tech guys, it runs Palm OS garnet 5.4.9

Storage

The device comes with ~69MB of storage out of which ~64MB is user-accessible. The storage memory is non-volatile meaning that the data will remain intact in case the battery is fully drained out. I rememeber that my Palm zire 71 came with 16MB of user avaliable of volatile memory and how frustrating it was to loose data when the battery used to ran out.

Storage can be expanded via micro-SD cards. Continue reading “Palm Centro review, an excellent phone”

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Special Touch Diamond without Prism back

Rumor has it that HTC is going to release a special edition of the thier Touch Diamond, HTC P3702. The HTC P3720 sports 128MB of RAM rather than 192MB.

I’m little doubtful about it’s performance with 128MB of RAM. You guys will think that this is plenty but it is not as the Graphic accerlerator inside it alone chews 64MB of RAM. That leaves you just with 64MB of RAM to run your applications. Continue reading “Special Touch Diamond without Prism back”

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iPhone 3G unlocked-They did it again!

A Brazlian company is claiming to be the first one to unlock an iPhone 3G. It has been done by using a SIM card adapter. The trick they have used has been used many times to make the phone think that it is on the approved network but actually it is not.

Here is the video related to it:

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A Vertu made from Bamboo- Vertu Essence

Vertu Essence is an ecologically sensitive mobile handset for the eco-luxury market. The outer casing is made from bamboo. The ceramic titanium core with sapphire crystal screen lasts several lifetimes. Essence comes with lifetime service where cases can be exchanged and firmware can be upgraded. All exchanged parts are reused or recycled by the company meaning that you add nothing to the trash bin.

vertu essence

OK, so who is in?

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LOL: Peugeot Brings Three Wheeled eco vehicles

OK, standing on 3 wheels and being eco-friendly is enough to make itself distinct from the rest of the crowd. Peugeot calls it as a cross between the two wheeler and four wheeler.

It runs on an electric motor. No carbon monoxide! Talk about being clean. Coming clean

via ecofriend

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Apple says "copy paste functions are of low priority"

Apple says that the copy and paste functions were omitted from the iPhone 3G just because they are of low priority. These functions were put at the end of the ‘Apple’s wishlist‘.

..and then they say, we won’t offer any support to the jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches :!: