Verizon Wireless last month announced that it too would begin offering the Palm Centro and honoring the $99.99 price with a contract. Verizon's Centro is a slick cobalt blue (pictured) and is available through Verizon's online store, at Verizon Wireless stores and select retailers like Circuit City.
Verizon's Centro, which runs Palm OS 5.4.9 and supports EVDO wireless, hits all typical marks of a true smart phone, offering voice, text messaging, mobile email and Web access through a full-color 320 x 320 resolution touch-screen and QWERTY keypad. It weighs in at 4.2 ounces with the battery and measures 2.1 inches long, 4.2 inches wide and 0.7 inches deep.
On the mobile email side, Verizon's Palm Centro uses VersaMail 4.0 with built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support for Microsoft Direct Push Technology. Direct push delivers email and calendar updates from a home or office PC using Outlook and pushes it directly to the handset. Centro users also have the option to enable Wireless Sync, Verizon's proprietary email solution to access personal or corporate email, contacts, calendar and tasks for their PC. Verizon said Wireless Sync supports both POP3 and IMAP email accounts and it supports major corporate email accounts through Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino.
