Palm releases unlocked Centro in U.S.

Palm Centro

Palm is now offering an unlocked version of the Palm Centro to U.S. customers.

The unlocked Palm Centro retains the smartphone’s compact, modern design and is dressed in a new white color with grey accents. Centro offers customers more choices to stay in touch with friends, family and co-workers by using voice, text messaging, email or the web.

The Palm Centro runs the PalmOS 5.4.9 and comes with a full QWERTY thumb keyboard, a 320×320 touchscreen display, 64MB available user storage, Bluetooth 1.2, a 1.3MP camera, and a microSD expansion slot. The unlocked Palm Centro also comes with quad-band (850/900/1800/1900MHz) GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity.

Palm also announced that Google Maps for mobile with My Location will be available for the Centro smartphone as a download (available as of June 24th).

The unlocked Palm Centro is only available at www.palm.com/centro for USD$299.

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