The Palm Centro smartphone was shown to Sprint’s financial audience, as well as a small number of press and market analysts. Photos and availability were not released. Here are some highlights regarding the new Palm Centro available through Sprint later this year.
Palm Centro Features
• Smallest Palm OS smartphone to date
• Runs on EVDO network
• New design features a full keyboard and touch screen

When released, the new Palm Centro from Sprint will be targeted to entry-level smartphone owners. As more information becomes available, we’ll pass it along. Discuss the new Palm Centro in our forums.
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One of the best things about owning a good Smart Phone aside from the business applications and default features on the phone is that you can customize many of the phone’s features so that it can fit your needs. With the added features and applications, you truly get your money’s worth. There are plenty of applications which you can buy or download for free from the internet.

There are thousands of freeware available online for the Palm Treo. These applications should make your mobile phone a most practical and useful device. These freeware can improve every aspect of your mobile phone. Here is a list of some of the more popular free ware available for Treo Smart Phones.

MySudoku v1.39 – This application will let you have hours of Sudoku fun on your mobile phone with infinite random puzzles. Sudoku is an addictive number puzzle that let’s you stretch your mind. This particular application will give you hints so that you can move forward when you’re stuck improving your skills.

SoundRec- The Sound Rec application turns your Treo smart phone into a voice/music recoder. The application can be downloaded for free and takes only 24K of memory.

MiniTones- This allows your Treo mobile phone to support MP3 files so you can use songs as ring tomes or SMS alert tones. It also lets you split a file so you can use only parts of a song.

MiCla Personal Budget v2.7- This simple application works like a ledger and let’s you monitor you income and expenses. It can be a great tool when you are trying to achieve a financial goal.

Meeting Log v1.0- Meetings may seem like the bane of the modern working culture but this application actually helps turn meetings into a method to gain useful information for the benefit of your company. The Meeting log keeps record of attendees and important points of the meeting.

Palm has not really made too many changes in the form factor of its Treo phones over the years. Except for being a little narrower and having no antenna, the Treo 750 still looks like the older versions of the Treo Smart Phones but since there really isn’t much problem with the phone’s look to begin with, then Palm has been smart not instigating too many changes in the phone’s form factor. The color midnight blue appeals to business executives and although the phone may not appeal too much to the trendy crowd, the mobile phone does have the right look for corporate executives.

As always, with the Treo 750, Palm was able to incorporate some of the best mobile applications for use of corporate denizens. Running on Windows OS, this phone is also highly-customizable with 3rd party applications available for download from the web. It also comes with Microsoft’s direct push technology allowing real-time forwarding of emails, and syncing.

Aside from being available for use with 3G networks worldwide, the phone also runs in different GSM frequencies making it compatible with various mobile phone service providers globally. The Treo has a five-band radio: GSM/ GPRS/ UMTS/ HSPDA/EDGE. The voice quality and the data speeds of the phone were excellent although speeds can dip depending on numerous factors. Still the average speed is respectable and will allow you to use your phone to perform voice calls, data transfers and computing tasks.

The phone has 128 RAM and 60 MB storage space. A miniSD card can also be used to increase the memory up to 2GB, perfect for busy executives who need their mobile phones to truly perform.

The battery lasts only about 4 hours of continuous use and you may have to get extended batteries and spare batteries to really be able to use your mobile phone for heavy tasks and to enjoy it for a longer period.

The quality of the photos taken with the Treo 750 is less desirable than those taken with new mobile phones with higher resolutions but it’s enough taking simple photos. The biggest flaw with the camera is the video capability as resolution is only set at the maximum of 352×288

People like to customize their ring tones to match their music preferences and personality. There are plenty of websites that offer free ring tones which you can download for your Treo mobile. Many of the free ring tones are MIDI files that feature the background music or the song but not the singing voice. While WAV files make great ring tones because you can get the whole song complete with singing voices, it can take up a big chunk of your mobile phone’s memory. MP3 may be the best format for your ring tone.

If you can’t find any particular tone that you like from the websites that allow free downloads, there are also ways to create your very own free ring tones using the MP3 files that you can easily download from the internet or which you may already have on your PC.

There are applications available online which you can download for free which you can use to convert MP3 files into a Treo ring tone. The MiniTones (http://software.palminfocenter.com/product.asp?id=11197) is a small application which can easily convert MP3 files into ring tones. It can not be used to convert MP3 into WAV or MIDI files. You can use it to covert ring tones for the Treo 650, Treo 680, Treo 700p and also the Treo 755p. All you need is a Palm OS to make the application work. You can also use it to split files so that you can convert specific parts of the song instead of the whole song.

Ringo Pro is another application which you can use to play MP3 files as ring tones on your Treo Smart Phone. Unlike the MiniTones which is free, you need to pay $ 29.95 to be able to download the Ringo Pro. You also need an SD Card to be able to store the MP3 files. Aside from providing you great ring tones, the application allows you to set-up special ring tones and SMS tones for caller groups and for friends. The ring tone can practically serve as your caller ID because you’ll know who’s calling just by the ring tone.

In the last decade, mobile phones have stopped being juts a device for voice calls but have become a gadget for data communications. First, there was SMS or Short Message Service, a service that allowed people to send alphanumeric messages to mobile phones using the GSM network. Now the mobile phones have been packed with so many features including full keyboards, multi-media support capacity, internet connectivity and other mobile applications.

Palm Inc. was among the first to introduce Smart phones with emailing and internet connectivity and full keyboards that made it easy to use the mobile phone as an extension of one’s office. Today, the Treo Smart Phones from Palm Inc. are among the top choices of business executives and other professionals because of the mobile applications that allow people to use their phones for a variety of purposes. All high technology features of the Treo Smart phones would be for naught if it weren’t for its ease of use. The latest Treo Smart Phones with Windows OS are even more easy to use than the first Smart phones introduced years ago. The Windows OS also allow the Treo Smart phones to handle Windows documents better allowing you to work seamlessly between your PC and your mobile phone. Both the Windows OS and the Palm OS also make the Treo phones among the fastest mobiles in the market, allowing for a great computing experience and a seamless internet connection. One of the most popular PDA phones from Treo is the Treo 650.

If you bought a Treo 650 Smartphone locked to a specific GSM provider and you prefer to use with another service provider, then there is a way to unlock your mobile phone. You can even do it remotely without the need to ship your mobile phone to the unlocking company. There are remote unlock codes that you can get from websites and you can just use the code to unlock the phone at home.

The first step you should do is to sync all your data with your PC. The phone comes with a hot sync cable for this purpose. This is important because you might delete some information from your phone without meaning to. This will save you the hassles of losing any important data.

After you have complete backed-up your data, you can already start unlocking your phone. Insert a SIM from a different service provider in your mobile phone. When you turn the Treo 650 on, a message saying ‘SIM NOT ALLOWED’ will be displayed on the phone’s screen. Just click OK and use the stylus to enter the code that was provided to you by the ‘unlocking company’. To enter the code press * # * # (CODE provided by the unlocking company) #. After you have entered the code, the message ‘SIM LOCK REMOVED’ should appear on your screen. You are now free to use any SIM from other service providers and even use foreign pre-paid cards on your phone when you travel to other countries.

There are also unlocking processes that include the use of software. Usually, you will be provided by a step-by-step guide on how to unlock your phone when you acquire an unlocking code. The whole process should take less than 5 minutes.