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DVICE TV: Palm Centro vs. iPhone

The iPhone, while certainly one of the top gadget's of 2007, has one big downside: It's expensive. For $400, you seemingly get a lot, though: a Web browser, Google Maps, even a 2-megapixel camera, among other perks. Plus it looks damn hot.

Still, $400 is up there for a cellphone. Is it possible to get all the same features for $300 less? We put the Apple's darling head to head with Palm's bargain smartphone, the new $100 Centro, to find out. There's no lab, no white coats, no benchmarks here — we're taking them on the streets to try them out just the way you'd actually use them and see which one comes out on top. It's just two phones, one Vanessa Rae, and a mission. Oh, and that professional line-sitter guy… what's his name again?

Peek the vid above to see which gadget comes out on top. Not to spoil anything, but the Centro wins the "reddest phone ever" category.

 
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By Disappointed at 10:32 AM ON 01/01/08

This review is a big crap for a couple basic reasons: Palm's webbrowser is ancient so any web-based test will make it a looser (smaller screen does not help much but is not an issue). test "who lanuch app x" (google maps) is pure idiotic. Iphone got better camera but again - who cares megabyte size picture if you wish to send it over MMS (which is not an iphone feature). so what exactly guys did tested? hot dogs next to apple store maybe? Why not mention how your iphone screen looks after day of touching it with your not-always-clean fingers? why not to mention thousands of apps for PAlm platform compared to mostly none for iphone.

By mgauss at 4:02 AM ON 01/03/08

the palm is so cool...for 1997. any website will choke it!

2008: the year of the iPhone !!

By Frozen at 11:16 PM ON 01/04/08

Try even answering your iPhone with gloves on - ain't gonna happen.


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