This post from the palm-dev-forum could potentially be of great interest for all developers who wish to target a Centro but don’t have one available – especially people out of the USA who aren’t good friends with Orange:
Here’s a partial list of the features supported by the Centro (+ means
present, L means a library is present and loaded). The only difference
>from the 755p that I spot is an audio codec (creator ‘CdWr’) which now
supports encoding to AMR, not just decoding. (The reported video
support for SXGA is just the same bug that hasn’t been fixed since the
700p.)I didn’t check whether ZLib and MathLib are in the ROM or happened to
be in RAM for the device tested.Feature Reporter v. 0.7beta7 [Centro Sprint]
==== HARDWARE ====
manuf. ‘Palm’ HAL ‘P053′ model ‘D062′
processor: Xscale rev 0
==== FEATURES ====
Palm OS v 5.4.9
Graffiti 1 (or none)
display resolutions: 1x, 1.5x, 2x
supported bit depths: 16 8 4 2 1
supported color depths: 16 8 4 2 1
char. encoding: ISO-8859-1
+ International Feature Set
+ New Serial Manager
+ Notification Manager v 1
+ Expansion Manager v 2.0
+ VFS Manager v 2.0
SMS [PalmSource]
+ Bluetooth
+ Bluetooth Exg. Lib. v 4.0
+ Handspring Extensions v 2.0
5-way Nav. [PalmOne]
+ 5-way Nav. [HandSpring] v 2
+ 5-way Nav. [PalmSource] v 1.0
Camera Slider [Zire 71]
+ Sampled Sound v 1.0
==== PALMSOURCE LIBRARIES ====
+ Personal Data Interchange
L Network (TCP/IP)
L Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
+ Crypto. Provider Mgr.
SMS [PalmSource]
Telephony [PalmSource]
L Bluetooth
==== PALMONE LIBRARIES ====
+ palmOne Photo v ?
+ palmOne Camera Mgr v 3.0.0
CameraLib (Treo 600)
+ palmOne LCD Overlay v 0.0.0
+ palmOne Codec Mgr v 3.0.0
L Background Service
+ Hi-res Timer
—- CAMERA LIB —-
— still sizes —
QQVGA 160×120
QCIF 176×144
QVGA 320×240
CIF 352×288
VGA 640×480
SXGA 1280×960
SXGA 1280×1024
— still formats —
RGB565
YCbCr422
— video sizes —
QQVGA 160×120
QCIF 176×144
QVGA 320×240
CIF 352×288
SXGA 1280×960
SXGA 1280×1024
— video formats —
YCbCr422Planar
— preview sizes —
QQVGA 160×120
QCIF 176×144
QVGA 320×240
— video preview settings —
allowed values: Off
(unknown video preview settings 0×00000026)
current value: Off
(unknown video preview settings 0×00000026)
— white balance settings —
Auto
—- LCD OVERLAY FORMATS —-
YCbCr444
YCbCr444Planar
YCbCr422Planar
YCbCr420Planar
—- CODECS —-
In Out Crea ID
IM0M MPG4 mp4g 0
MPG4 IM0M mp4f 0
IM0L MPG4 mp4e 0
IM0M MPG4 mp4e 0
MPG4 IM0M mp4d 0
MPG3 PCM1 mp3d 0
PCM1 APCM adpe 0
APCM PCM1 adpd 0
MPG2 PCM1 Mpg1 0
Mpg1 IM0@ Mpg1 0
TFFF IM0T ImCp 0
TFFF IM0R ImCp 0
TFFF IM0Q ImCp 0
TFFF IM0: ImCp 0
TFFF IM05 ImCp 0
TFFF IM09 ImCp 0
TFFF IM03 ImCp 0
IM0T WBMF ImCp 0
IM0R WBMF ImCp 0
IM0Q WBMF ImCp 0
IM05 WBMF ImCp 0
IM03 WBMF ImCp 0
WBMF IM0T ImCp 0
WBMF IM0R ImCp 0
WBMF IM0Q ImCp 0
WBMF IM0: ImCp 0
WBMF IM05 ImCp 0
WBMF IM09 ImCp 0
WBMF IM03 ImCp 0
GI9F IM0: ImCp 0
GI9F IM05 ImCp 0
GI9F IM0Z ImCp 0
GI7F IM0: ImCp 0
GI7F IM05 ImCp 0
GI7F IM0Z ImCp 0
IM0V JPEF ImCp 0
IM0G JPEF ImCp 0
IM03 JPEF ImCp 0
JPEF IM0V ImCp 0
JPEF IM0: ImCp 0
JPEF IM05 ImCp 0
JPEF IM09 ImCp 0
JPEF IM03 ImCp 0
IM0I MJPG ImCp 0
IM0H MJPG ImCp 0
IM0G MJPG ImCp 0
IM03 MJPG ImCp 0
MJPG IM0N ImCp 0
MJPG IM0M ImCp 0
MJPG IM05 ImCp 0
MJPG IM03 ImCp 0
PCM1 QCLP CdWr ‘d“á`’
QCLP PCM1 CdWr ‘d“áX’
PCM1 AMRS CdWr ‘d“áP’
AMRS PCM1 CdWr ‘d“áH’
AVCd IM0M AVCd 0
PCM1 PCM1 APCM 0
APCM PCM1 APCM 0
PCM1 APCM APCM 0
DAAC PCM1 AACf 0
IM0M H263 263e 0
H263 IM0M 263d 0
==== SONY EXTENSIONS ====
[not a Sony]
==== 3RD PARTY LIBRARIES ====
+ ZLib (compression)
+ MathLib
==== CONFIGURATION ====
total memory: 70472K
dynamic memory: 10304K
free memory: 66454K
HotSync ID:
A big thank you goes out to Douglas Reeder for posting this – if anyone has his web site, please post a link to it so that I can link to him!
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Did that actually say “Graffiti 1″? Are they finally making a sensible regression? I didn’t think that they’d ever go back to Graffiti 1.
Hi Baalthazaar,
IMHO, palm can’t put Graffiti 1 on the devices due to the whole lawsuits with Xerox thing.
The exact quote was either G1 or none, so I’d have to say that the centro wouldn’t have any graffiti
Having the Centro now for a week, I love it EXCEPT the keys are a bit tiny. I would so love to have Grafitti 1 again. I ran the Grafitti Anywhere program for a little while on my previous Palm (Treo 650) but couldn’t break my G1 habits from prior 3 Palms, nor learn how to do some G2 letters to begin with.
What’s this Xerox thing, Ryan? If it’s a copyright issue, I can’t imagine the co would shirk benefits–and some small dividends–they’d get from another party’s (re)development of this super-useful program. Especially now, while this newest Palm can cause severe finger cramping with any extensive data entry!
Alright–I looked into the Xerox situation. Seems like a lousy case on their part, unless they’ve evidence that someone stole Unistroke code and Palm/USRobotics/3Com/Palm used it in its design.
Either way, it seems there’ll be a new market for on-screen graffiti-type software, whether G1 or G2. Perhaps my probs had more to do with “Graffiti Anywhere” than they did with G2. If I recall, I was never once able to draw an “i”, a “-”, or create a blank space. Very aggravating. But at least I didn’t go cross-eyed after 5 min entering info using this program + Treo keypad (vs Centro’s smaller keypad).