Over the years I have remained somewhat of a technophile...I got hooked on computers as a college freshman and eventually switched my major from a BS in Physics to a BS in Applied Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill. I am such a geek I even wrote a sort of technology biography a couple of years back.

I have always enjoyed the products of Palm Inc. Actually, I was printing out my calendar from an old app called Lotus Organizer when the first Palm handheld came out. At that time it was from US Robotics before it was sold to 3Com, then spawned Handspring, which worked on cellphones called Treo, then Palm Inc, which borged Handspring back into Palm...

I have watched the smartphone market for years with some interest but two things kept me away. First, the technology was not mature and the features of the early phones were very weak. Second, they were just so expensive that I felt a little hitch in the soul paying 500 bucks for a phone. Well, things evolved and the technology got better but the price did not go down as rapidly so I have held out.

In October a little phone come out from Sprint/Palm called the Centro which peaked by interests. First, it was 99 bucks. Second, it was really small. Due to the fact that I was moving my corporate plan phone onto my personal Sprint plan I was forced to do another 2 year contract...so this small phone was available to me at the 99 price. I bit the bullet and grabbed on a few weeks back and I have been very pleased. So what follows is a bit of a review of my little black Centro...