Palm’s phones never were famous for their imaging capabilities - in fact, the Treo 600 was almost universally loathed due to its gruesomely bad VGA “noiseograph”…but nobody really cares about the camera on a business smartphone anyways. Palm’s Centro is targeted at consumers who do care about cams…is it worth it?

The Centro’s camera has a native resolution of 2MP, which leads to 1600×1200 images. The lens is a classic fixed one(no autofocus here); and don’t even ask about a flash LED.

Here are a few sample images from the Centro’s cam - click on the icons to see them in their native size.

As for the 2x digital zoom - its effect is illustrated in these indoor pictures:

In the end, the image quality of the Centro’s cam won’t make anybody happy - Palm definitely wasted money on the ad in the JPG photography magazine. Yep…the Centro does make better pictures than a 680…but other boxen remain miles ahead.

Stay tuned for your final verdict and an interview series with leading developers!

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Tam Hannas PalmOS blog - TamsPalm for short - has been founded in November 2004 and has been an enormous success ever since. Covering different topics concerning Palm handheld users, it has received lots of attention from the community! Currently, nine authors supply first class content.

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