Palm Centro Finally Reaches Verizon Wireless Customers

For a company that touts the best wireless network, Verizon Wireless sure has a slow product-release cycle.  Many months after other wireless carriers began offering the Palm Centro smart phone, Verizon has finally caught up.  Although Palm's aging operating system is hardly state-of-the-art, it is intuitive, stable, and (most importantly) compatible with leading practice management software.  My new Windows Mobile 6 smart phone will do some things that are impossible on a Palm OS-based smart phone, but it is more complicated to use.  Lawyers looking for simplicity, yet sync-ability with Amicus Attorney and other law office software, in a small and inexpensive package, should look at the Centro.  At $99.99 with a two-year contract, the Centro is the cheapest truly useful smart phone offered to Verizon Wireless customers.

   

Comments

[Stephen Dennis]

Amicus is telling me today that it is and will not be supporting Centros.
Whats the real deal?

[Scott Bassett]

Amicus Small Firm syncs directly with Palm OS devices. The Centro is a Palm OS device. It is essentially a Treo 680 in a smaller form factor. If your version of Amicus with sync with a Treo, it should sync with the Centro.

Amicus Premium syncs with Outlook, so it is more Windows Mobile oriented. A Palm OS device can sync indirectly with Amicus Premium by syncing with Outlook. Using Outlook as an intermediary in the sync process does add risk of data corruption.