Do you have 17 minutes? Do you care about the Palm Centro? Well CNBC has a video for you. Thrill as Palm CEO Ed Colligan can basically say $99 and Centro for over 15 minutes straight while Jim Goldman of TechCheck throws him softballs.
Palm sold 2 million Centros so far. To put that into perspective, Apple sold 4 million iPhones. Nokia sold 2 million phones last night to some guy in the back of a van. RIM can buy and sell Ed Colligan.
Sure, the Centro is a cute phone. It’s got some great features for the price. Sadly, it’s simply keeping Palm on life-support. Like Motorola squeezing out new RAZRs and RAZR-alikes, Palm needs to put up or shut up. The low-end smartphone market will soon be taken over by Android and HTC and then where does that put the Centro?
Even more surprising is that there were 2 million people who were aware enough that Palm still existed to actually want to buy their product.
I keep expecting a ComputerTutor type ‘Please, try my product?’ whine for Palm….
The have done NOTHING since they released the original treo phone. Oh, I forgot, they put out a few versions with WinMo on it versus the ancient Palm OS. That really didn’t change anything since they hadn’t upgraded the hardware since 1997… The sad thing is that a single product innovation from Palm, like an overhaul of the OS, or maybe a DIFFERENT FORM FACTOR, could have kept this company on top of the industry. Now you can by a POS Centro at the back of the Lego isle at Toys R’ Us.
My Treo 680 is pretty cool
Touch screen? check
Video and photos? check
Qwerty keyboard? check
SD card slot for more memory? check
As thick as 3 iphones? pretty much
Windows? nope
Need Itunes to wipe its ass? nope
really, if it had wifi it would really rock
Palm isn’t dead… its just sleeping, for 8 years now