While the Centro didn’t fare too well against its predecessor(the Treo 680) in our review, the following bits of news could nevertheless be interesting for some:
Centro sales hit 1000000
Palm recently reported a sell through rate of approximately 30kpcs/week a few weeks ago – now, their press department sent out a release stating that one million Centro devices have been sold so far.
Unfortunately, developers will not feel much of this, because:
A recent Palm survey of Centro customers highlighted this trend, indicating that 70 percent are first-time smartphone users. When compared to other Palm smartphones, Centro also is reaching almost double the number of women, more than double the number of customers under age 35, and nearly three times as many customers with a household income of less than $75,000.
3G Centro COULD be upcoming
AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega seems to be good friends with Engadget – anyways, they report him stating:
all of the carrier’s smartphones would be 3G within a matter of mere “months.”
at a recent press event.
As we all know, Garnet OS has issues handling a data and a voice connection simultaneously(although I don’t quote understand why – IMHO, Palm should be able to do it by offloading work to the baseband processor). So, if Ralph is right; Nova boxen could be coming over us soon after all…
Palm gets into the extended battery market
If the report over at Treonauts is right, Palm now produces expansion batteries of its own…that could explain why some Treo 680 owners had huge issues with their replacement batteries after the latest firmware update…
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Unfortunately, developers will not feel much of this
It’s not the fact that these new users ‘make less’ than other palm users, it’s the fact they see their phone as simply a phone and some don’t even realise that they can add software to it. The only Centro user I know (a girl in my English class) has a completely stock phone and in fact, AFAIK, doesn’t even use the PIM.
Just my 2cents
Ryan
When I met the head of Palm UK he hadn’t heard of half of the programs I use on my Centro.
Seeing as the Palm OS software is one of the main reasons why I’ve stuck with the platform, you’d think he’d know about the great programs that give his phones the edge.
Oh well…
Hi Ryan and Mike,
basically, it comes down to Palm and its developer economy becoming more and more seperated from one another…
Best regards
Tam Hanna
Huh?
Again, it’s not really a palm and developer economy rift so much as a user and developer economy rift.
~Ryan
Hi,
IMHO not.
The users cannot be moved – but Palm could always help move customers towards its independent third party developers…things they didn’t do much so far…
Best regards
Tam Hanna