Yes its true. My beloved and frustrating Treo 650 decided to do its final act and seized up solid. Sprint Tech Support Could not revive it so I went for a new phone. The Centro is pretty cool and it sync’s to Ubuntu Gutsy pretty easy. At least easier than what I saw for Fedora 7. All I had to do was insert the visor module into the running kernel and the phone sync’ed all its stuff to j-pilot and then installed a few things I had bought.
Its more of a consumerish phone but it ships with stuff that I wanted like an IM client, a version of VersaMail that appears to work, and more memory. It comes with about 64mb which is good enough for what I use it for.
There are a few gotchas. I don’t particularly like the phone message after a call ends but it only lasts for about 3 seconds or so. The keyboard is smaller but I can text on it and write email. My eyes are old so I reset the default fonts.
If this phone lasts 2 years, I will figure for 99.00 I got my $$ worth. My Treo lasted that long but it cost about 5 times as much.
