Palm OS-based Centro arrives in UK

Palm has launched the Palm OS-based Centro smartphone in the UK, with a retail price of around £199.

The company is marketing the handset as a youthful alternative to its Treo smartphones, which are aimed more towards business users.

The Centro has the look and layout of the recently released, Windows Mobile-based Treo 500, although it is narrower and has a higher resolution display.

The Centro features quad-band GSM/GPRS/Edge connectivity and Bluetooth 1.2, but 3G is not available. It has 64MB of user-accessible memory and can take Micro SDHC cards of up to 4GB in capacity.

The device also features a 1.3-megapixel camera. It comes with Google Maps pre-installed and DataViz’ Documents to Go for viewing PDFs and for reading and editing Microsoft Office files.

The phone comes with PocketTunes for MP3 playback, and a stereo headset is included.