GSM version of Palm's Centro headed for AT&T
A GSM version of Palm's Centro is apparently on tap for the AT&T network for release next Thursday, according to a report in popular mobile blog The Boy Genius Report. Although details are scant, it appears that the phone carries much of the functionality that its CDMA counterpart has.
Palm released the Centro for the Sprint network last October at Digital Life in New York City, aiming to put all the functionality of the Treo into a smaller form factor. The Centro received generally positive reviews.
The phone comes in an interesting green and white combination in AT&T form, somewhat different from the more generic colors such as red and black which were offered by Sprint.
Reports indicate that the Centro will either be $99 or $149 USD with a two-year contract, which would place the device into the reach of the general consumer. Most smartphones retail for hundreds of dollars, a fact that's often blamed for the generally light adoption outside of the business market.
If the CDMA version is any indication of the phone's GSM features, this is likely what the AT&T Centro would include: a two-inch LCD color screen, 64MB of on board memory, a 312MHz Intel Xscale processor, Bluetooth, Infrared, and a memory slot for microSD cards that can support up to 4GB.
