AT&T has launched the Palm Centro in the more conservative Obsidian Black color previously offered to Premier business customers.
The new version of the Palm Centro is otherwise identical to the Glacier White model featuring quadband GSM/EDGE support, Bluetooth, infrared port, a 2.2 inch QVGA display, QWERTY keyboard, GarnetOS, microSDHC expansion slot with support for 4GB cards, 1.3 megapixel camera with video recorder, XpressMail and Good Mobile Messaging email clients, XM Radio and AT&T Music support, and push to talk.
It should be noted that despite the image of AT&T Navigation shown on the device, the Centro does not offer internal support for GPS navigation services of any kind.
The device is now available from AT&T online for $349 outright and $199 after a new 2 year agreement, before an additional $100 mail-in rebate, bringing the total to $99.99.
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The title indicates it has PTT? I’m just very curious about that as I’ve never seen any Palm device with PTT, much less one on AT&T. Is there a link to a source from AT&T or Palm about that one?
The product page itself lists the Centro as having PTT:
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There are also many reviews stating the PTT button being on the left side of the device, which is the voice memo button on the Sprint version.
Does that mean we can hold hope of an 800 with DC?
You never know, but with the fact that the 800 will launch with Windows Mobile 6.1 and Rev. A there’s always hope.
I will add, however that prior information on the 800 never made mention of QChat being designed into the device, so there’s always the possibility that it won’t launch until sometime later. If I see anything that indicates otherwise, I’ll be sure to let everyone know.
QChat and AT&T’s PTT platforms are different beasts.
Adding AT&T PTT to Windows Mobile is rather straightforward, once the stack was written, it was a deploy once, deploy everywhere situation. It required little customization to port that to Palm OS and deliver it to Centro.
QChat is more robust, and requires hardware to make things work. This requires interacting software with specific hardware custom to EV-DO Rev A. What I’m getting at is… while it would be nice to point to the Treo 800w as having QChat, I would not use the Centro on AT&T as any indicator.
Meaning you wouldn’t use a Palm w/ptt or ATT Palm w/ptt?
I never said that. I simply said that QChat is a more complicated protocol than AT&T’s protocol (Kodiak).
That’s not to say Kodiak is not adequate, that’s more of a personal preference question. Some think it’s fine, others hate it. The same can be said for every PTT platform.
I myself, for what it’s worth, don’t use PTT at all.
ATT should have it listed as “Push to Wait”
i was just wondering is it better than the iphone?
and can you jailbreak it like the iphone?