Listen internet radio on Centro.

Today, I accidentally found out that the build-in media player on Centro allows me to play Windows Media streaming format. I can listen to my favorite radio online while I am traveling.

Palm Centro Warm Reset.

Tried few new freewares on my Centro yesterday, and the palm centro got stuck and keep reset itself. it is in a reset-Loop.

Luckily, there is a warm reset function on Centro. It will let your centro phone boots to a safe mode. Once you are in safe mode, try to remove the malfunction software.

How to perform a warm (system) reset on a Centro smartphone ?

Check out the following link:


http://kb.palm.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=143,E=0000000000117197011,K=550,Sxi=12,Case=Obj(45200)

Put links on yoru Centro App Laucher.

Want to lauch your favourite web site easily on your palm Centro? Instead of putting it to your Blazer bookmark, you can now put it on your laucher with SharkLinks app! It is a free app, cool!

Download it at
http://www.ludustech.com/sharklinks/

Congratulation: Centro is the 4th popular phone in this summer!

CNet report:

During that same time frame, the smartphones with the highest unit sales were Apple's iPhone 3G, followed by Research In Motion's BlackBerry Curve, RIM's BlackBerry Pearl, and the Palm Centro, according to NPD.

Centro is really a good phone :)

Setting up call forwarding in Centro

1. Press the "Phone" button on the left side next to the Palm Button
2. Press the "menu" button next to the "Alt" on the bottom right of your Centro keyboard
3. Select "Options"
4. Select "Phone Preferences", may take few seconds to fetch config from the network
5. Set Call forwarding number (New a phone number)
6. Select OK, update config to the network operator

Use your Palm Centro as internet modem (via Bluetooth/USB)

Recently I tested using my Palm Centro as a network modem and let my iMac to go online via EDGE service. It is really good when you carry your notebook to somewhere without WiFi connection but you can still go online via your Centro phone.

I followed the instructions from the Palm support site, DUN (Dial Up Network) document.
http://www.palm.com/us/support/DUN/index.html

Surf the web on your laptop using your smartphone's Internet connection ¹ ²
Dial-up networking (DUN) is the feature that converts your smartphone into a modem³ so that you can access the Internet from your laptop computer. By connecting your smartphone to your laptop, you can surf the Internet, send and receive email using your favorite email application, and access files from a server — just as you would if you were using DSL, cable Internet, or Wi-Fi.

The only problem I encountered is that telephone number field in the dial-up tool on the Mac OS X (or Windows?) should fill in the isp APN name instead of the phone numbers.

Happy Surfing with your Centro:)

Gizmo (playing MSN) on Centro

Gizmo is a VOIP software for mobile devices, but it also does Instant-messenger. I used it as my MSN client on Centro.

You have to register an Gizmo account, you can follow the instructions after you installed the gizmo client on Centro. It is a freeware, you can find it here:
http://gizmo5.com/pc/

It supports MSN, AIM, and Jabber clients, I used MSN very often, so I chose to use MSN with Gizmo.

One cool thing is that it supports running in background. You can still receive your friend's message while you are browsing the internet, checking email on Centro.

Demonstration here: