Pre-paid Centro launches in Australia

Palm has announced that it’s popular Centro smartphone has launched on Australia’s Telestra network. Priced at $299 the handset will come in Glacier White and feature a dedicated link to the network’s BigPond service, allowing them to access exclusive content.

“Pre-Paid mobile phone users now have access to a number of features not available on standard mobile handsets with the addition of the Palm Centro to the Telstra Pre-Paid range. The Palm Centro will allow customers to stay on top of email and text messages, as well as access the Internet, manage appointments, view documents or make use of a multitude of other productivity-boosting and entertaining features.” said Tim Copper,Telestra’s director of Consumer and Marketing.”

The Centro will be sold locked to the network, but Telestra says an unlocked version may be available in the future. Telestra’s Centro is a quad-band GSM/EDGE smartphone running Palm OS Garnet v5.4.9. It has a 320×320 pixel touchscreen display, Bluetooth v1.2, a 1.3-megapixel camera with video capture and 64MB of RAM with a micro SD slot. The US version is Palm’s best and fastest selling smartphone ever.

Via [PalmInfoCenter]