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You can't walk two minutes these days without passing someone who is vividly engrossed in their Palm Centro phone, either texting, emailing or just yapping. Is it the phone of choice? let's explore its performance.

We tested the dual-band (CDMA 850; EV-DO) Palm Centro in New York using Sprint service, and had a mix in performance. On our side, there was a slight background hiss, but it wasn't bad enough to disrupt the conversations. The party on the other side of the line was impressed by how crisp and clear we sounded to them, and reported no issues. We experienced very similar results when using the Centro's speakerphone. Volume seemed soft and weak to us, even though we had audio set to the highest level. Voices were completely drowned out on louder streets, such as Manhattan streets. However, the other party told us we sounded clear and didn't even realize we had turned on the speakerphone. Paring the Centro to a Centro Bluetooth was a breeze, we had no problem pairing it.

The Centro is powered by a 312MHz Intel XScale processor, and the general performance was satisfactory. We didn't experience any significant or frustrating delays, but there was some sort of brief delay when waiting for streaming content or opening Office documents. We weren't surprised that music playback sounded weak through the phone's speakers, since we already had our experience with the speakerphone,as mentioned above.

The Palm Centro 1150mAh internal lithium ion battery is rated for 3 1/2 hours of talk time and up to 12 and 1/2 days of standby time.

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