Palm CEO: “Hey, did you see the Centro? Guys? The Centro?”
- July 29th, 2008
- 3 Comments
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?
John Eddy (Who am I?)
3 months ago
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….
pji (Who am I?)
3 months ago
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.
ryan (Who am I?)
3 months ago
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