Buy a Palm® Centro smartphone and get a FREE Vehicle Power Charger ($29.99 value). Offer ends 10/31/2007

Once in awhile a great opportunity comes along that lends itself to keeping on top of web technology and Internet trends ... for FREE.

If you are an owner of a website (like a Squidoo lens, blog, BANS site, or any other website), you can gain value from this fantastic trade publication. Subscriptions are absolutely free and there is no obligation.

I've been a subscriber for almost 2 years and find the magazine an invaluable source. It caters to geeks and non-geeks ... so it hits many audiences. And best of all ...

Who can argue with FREE :)

Free Website Trade Publication >> Website Magazine

Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com 28 Sep 2007

Palm has unveiled its $99.99 Centro smartphone that aims to bring the Treo's functionalities to the consumer segment.

The company cited market data from IDC claiming that the smartphone market is shifting from a professional to a consumer audience.

IDC projects that 13.8 million smartphones will ship this year, increasing to 74.4 million by 2011.

The Palm Centro features a touchscreen and keyboard, as well as a built-in camera and Bluetooth wireless connectivity. Whereas the Treo comes in 'business grey', the Centro will ship in the more 'consumer-friendly' colours of black and ruby red.

The phone runs the PalmOS operating system. Surfing the web and mobile sites is enabled by a special mobile browser, but requires a special data subscription.

Similar to its Treo cousin, users can set up the Centro for push email for corporate messages, allowing email to be delivered automatically to the handheld.

The smartphone has also been optimised to work with popular online email services such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail.

The Centro is available in the US through Sprint. Palm did not immediately return a request for information on international availability.

The $99.99 price tag marks an introductory price after $50 instant savings and a $100 mail-in-rebate for users subscribing to a data plan. The phone comes with a two-year subscription to Sprint's CDMA network.

FREE Shipping on the new Palm® Centro smartphone available for pre-order now at palm.com.

Boston (dbTechno) - Palm is taking a different direction with their next smart-phone as they have unveiled a $100 smart-phone named the Centro.

The Centro is a huge step for Palm as they try to enter the mass-market and become the least-expensive smart-phone on the market today.

The Centro is going to be running on the same Palm operating system which is used by the Treo and will also have a color touch screen, full keyboard, as well as access to e-mail and web surfing.

The smart-phone is going to be an exclusive to Sprint for a period of 3 months. It will be available for $100 with a $100 mail-in-rebate when customers sign up for a two-year service agreement with a data acess plan above $25/month.

With the announcement, the Palm stock rose by $1.02 or 6.6% which is great news for the company.

With competition from Apple with their expensive iPhone as well as from Motorola with the Q and Nokia, Palm had to do something different and they have definitely done so.

It will be launching next month and should be a huge hit for Sprint and Palm.

NEW Palm® Centro smartphone is now available for pre-order for $99 at palm.com.

The Palm® Centro smartphone, available in Onyx Black and Ruby Red is sure to impress your friends and co-workers with its sleek design.

While smaller than the Treo smartphone, The Palm Centro runs on the Palm OS and has many of the same features including a 1.3 megapixel camera with 2X zoom, MP3 player, access email (including Microsoft Outlook) on the go, surf the Web via the Blazer browser, connect wirelessly with Bluetooth, Google Maps and Sprint TV.

Free Shipping and Vehicle Power Charger($29.99 value) when you buy the NEW Palm® Centro smartphone.