Comments on: Holiday Gift Suggestions: the Palm Centro for the Budding Techie…and a Giveaway!

By: WPMJJ

WPMJJ — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:16:50 +0000

If I won it would be my best friend (for the past 31 years) David who would benefit. Dave is slow to adopt on tech things and generally requires that I hold his hand the whole time. He NEEDS a PDA and an integrated phone would be the best way. His memory (like mine) fades more each passing day, he needs alarms to try to get where he needs on time, texting would be SO much easier with a full keyboard… IT would be a wonderful Christmas present for BOTH of us.

By: kmoj78

kmoj78 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:54:02 +0000

my name is kerry,
if I can get this device it would be for my dad. he needs this for the simple reason that he is an entrepreneur including ownership of two hair salons. we are in atlanta, georgia and things aren’t going well with money right now. so I think it would be best for him to have this so he could be more succesful. as of right now he has a simple sanyo mm-7500. no insurance or anything. in very bad condition. and I have a motorazr with a cracked screen. but he deserves it so if you could I think he desrves this phone. and it doesn’t matter the color because he will be satisfied with having a better phone for his job. theres always cases.

By: Dee Tee

Dee Tee — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:23:56 +0000

If I won this Centro, it would replace a TX, or perhaps be its companion. The backup TX might well go to my spouse to use with Peck’s birdwatching application as the app needs an SD slot for birdsongs and photos and won’t work on the Z22 which keeps personal data segregated from the office-issued Blackberry.

By: CallieSink

CallieSink — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:41:45 +0000

If I won this Centro it would be for my husband. I have a 755p and love it; he however is still using a Sanyo from the dark ages i.e. no text, web camera etc….can you imagine!!? We have been Sprint customers for 7 years and love them…..so please help me upgrade my out of date husband.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:58:47 +0000

This lovely phone would be mine, all MINE! My husband has all kinds of gadgets from work so it’s high time I could compete by replacing my pretty but simple Samsung phone of some sort. Especially now that I finally gave in and we have text messaging!

By: jonlybonly

jonlybonly — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:30:18 +0000

My wife would get it. She has resisted the Palm Treos because she finds them too bulky for her small hands/purse/pocket. But when I made her hold the Centro in the store one day, she said, “now there’s a phone I could love!”.
I’d be jealous of course (mine’s an old 650) but she deserves to move up to a smartphone!

By: Btrfly9IRL

Btrfly9IRL — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:42:10 +0000

this phone would be for my husband. and it would replace his old old old sprint katana flip phone.

i already have a centro that i have been enjoying since may and he needs to be upgraded!

By: karahepp

karahepp — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:11:48 +0000

I would be so excited to replace my 2-year-old palm treo 700wx. It definitely needs to be replaced with a centro.

By: alex_mathews

alex_mathews — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:02:57 +0000

I would probably replace my 700p, since I’ve been wanting a more pocketable phone.

By: mikekarr

mikekarr — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:57:56 +0000

I’d use this phone to replace a plain old Razr for my poor sister who broke her Blackberry Pearl.

By: justcurious

justcurious — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:46:27 +0000

The new stickier gel keys on this Centro sound like just the ticket for me to enter text. And the 128 Mb of memory make it a worthy compliment (successor?) to my Palm Zire 72S.

Thank you!

By: jwstreo

jwstreo — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:34:37 +0000

I would give this Centro to my wife. She won’t admit it, but she’s very jealous of my Treo 700P, and I’d love to be able to share a common calendar with her… She still uses a paper calendar, and a little pay-as-you-go cheap phone.

Thanks for the give-away chance!

By: kenneth2009

kenneth2009 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:50:25 +0000

I have a 700P and I would love to get the new Centro color for my wife who
now has the original Centro in red. The Centro was her first smartphone.
Before the Centro she never cared much for internet surfing or listen to
music on her other phones. She loves it. I would love to win the new color
to give it to her for Christmas.

By: mchinsky

mchinsky — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:19:53 +0000

LindsS.

I have a 700p, and unlike previous Treos, this one won’t die…

I believe there are 2 problems with replacing a 700p with a Centro:

1), The keyboard is darn tiny on the Centro. As you know, the 700p is about as small as a keyboard can get and still be usable, the Centro will upset you if you are used to typing significant text on your 700p

2) I don’t believe the Centro supports Sprint 3g, whereas the 700p does, so all data functions will be much slower.

By: LindsS

LindsS — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:12:57 +0000

If I had this Palm Centro, I would probably use it to replace my aging Treo 700p. I may give my wife a chance to have it first since she likes the full keyboard on my phone but not the bulky size and since the Centro is much smaller then the 700p she might just say yes.

By: mchinsky

mchinsky — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:01:14 +0000

This would be for my wife. Everybody jokes that she has the absolutely most basic phone ever. Has no dataplan, not even a camera.

Lately it is only charging intermittently and she’s always checking her email at home (obviously has no email on this super cheapie phone she has)

We are already on Sprint so no problem there and I’ve been a Palm evangelist Since the Treo 270 and have been responsible through my company for purchasing probably 60 Treos in the last 5 years.

The ultimate reason why I should win….

Drum roll…

My wife’s name is the same as the color…Rose

By: danburleson

danburleson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:30:29 +0000

‘Got Sprint, ‘Got Fusic, ‘Got Palm, need to ‘Get Smart

…with a Centro.

By: ChessieCat

ChessieCat — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:05:41 +0000

I have been drooling over the Centro since I first saw it advertised. I currently have a Samsung SCH-u520 which works great, but it’s not a smartphone. I also have a Palm M500. So when, I mean if I win I will combine the M500 and the Cell phone into my new Palm Centro! I LOVE Palm products. Thanks for the chance.
Linda

By: AlanG

AlanG — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:20:38 +0000

If I win the Sprint rose colored Palm Centro smartphone, I would use it to replace my Sprint BlackBerry Curve 8330. Yes, email and browsing might seem better to some on the BlackBerry, but the inability to work with Office files in Documents To Go is a total deal breaker. The Palm OS really shines in the productivity suite area.

Alan G

By: jlhorng

jlhorng — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:52:14 +0000

I had a Pam 505 before I switch to WM. Nevertheless, I am the only one, or at least I know among my friends, using two devices, one phone and one PDA. With this Centro, hopefully, I may be able to consolidate my device into one. Will I be the one?

By: SpencerAR

SpencerAR — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:08:40 +0000

I have a good friend, Mike, who has a 2-3 generation old Palm phone on Sprint. I think the Centro would make a great X-Mas gift for him.

Spencer

By: Augie

Augie — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:57:46 +0000

I have the Sprint Mogul, and no way would I replace it with the Centro. I just wouldn’t give up my WM 6.1. I want the new Touch Pro, but I’m not eligible for an upgrade yet.

My next door neighbor Kelly and I text each other all the time; jokes, dinner plans, check up on each other. She’s on the Sprint network too, so it’s totally free. She also happens to be my coworker and one of my best friends. She calls me Will, and I call her Grace.

Two of our other friends just got their Centro’s a couple weeks ago. We’re all on Sprint and in the loop with Myspace and Facebook, but Kelly still has the cheap flip phone with no features that she got when she signed the Sprint contract. This would be an awesome upgrade for her, and if I gave it to her, maybe she will stop texting me so much and come over more often.

By: nosmohtac

nosmohtac — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:13:45 +0000

Thanks for the contest.

I would love to get this for my daughter. She is currently using a Motorola Q, and she isn’t interested in the additional power that the WM platform has to offer. Her brother got a centro after she chose the Q, and she was rather disappointed she didn’t wait and choose the centro too.

I am not interested in the palm OS in the least, but I completely understand the attraction to the simple yet quite capable platform.

My daughter would love to have one of these updated ones, ’cause more memory is always a good thing.

Thanks again,
Clark

By: Judie Lipsett

Judie Lipsett — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:52:22 +0000

rose centro (sprint version) giveaway – http://tinyurl.com/5l3hru