Sprint To Carry Palm Gandolf, Rename it Centro

The Palm Gandolf/Treo 800 just got official; Sasha Segan at GearLive got the scoop at a Sprint event that the new device now seems to be called the Palm Centro, and Sprint will be carrying it. He got some hands-on time with the device, and wasn't that impressed; he described the keyboard as having "the tiniest QWERTY keyboard I've ever seen. It's infinitesimal: it's actually impossible to type on this thing with two thumbs." Sprint pointed out that it's being aimed at the youth market, and that kids these days have smaller, quicker fingers than cranky old men like Segan, but we remain to be convinced that it will actually be usable by anybody over the age of 5. The price is kid friendly at $99, which puts it right up against the Sidekick iD. Look out for it this fall, but it remains to be seen if your kids will thank you for buying them a phone that looks like it shrank in the wash when all their friends have iPhones.