Customers using the stylish Centro will get access to VersaMail? 4.0 with built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync? support for Microsoft Direct Push Technology to deliver e-mail and calendar updates from a home or office PC using Outlook? directly to their handsets. Centro users also have the option of using Wireless Sync, Verizon Wireless? proprietary e-mail solution, for quick and easy access to personal or corporate e-mail, contacts, calendar and tasks from their home or office PC. Wireless Sync supports POP3 or IMAP e-mail accounts and it supports Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes? and IBM Lotus Domino?.

The Palm Centro also includes the following features and capabilities:

• Text, picture and video messaging (text messages are presented to customers in a ?chat-style? view so customers can see their entire conversation unfold)
• Superior phone functionality, including one-touch speakerphone and conference calling, the ability to respond to a call with text messaging, and the option to use the touch-screen dial pad
• Smart, fast Web browsing using the award-winning Blazer browser
• 2x digital zoom camera with video capture
• Media player with Pocket Tunes? Deluxe (PlaysForSure-compatible)
• Bluetooth? v. 1.2 with support for hands-free car kits and headset profiles
• 64 MB available user storage and microSD? memory card slot with support up to 4 GB
• User-friendly, familiar Palm OS? 5.4.9, including one-touch access to key applications
• Small, sleek form factor: 2.1? (l) x 4.2? (w) x 0.7? (d)
• 4.2 ounces with battery
• 320 x 320 pixel color touch-screen and full QWERTY keyboard for easier e-mail, messaging and Web use

Pricing and Availability
The Palm Centro smartphone will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, including those in Circuit City, for $99.99 after a $70 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers may want to pair their Centro voice plan with Verizon Wireless? E-mail and Web for Smartphone service for $29.99. This is an unlimited monthly data plan for Web browsing and e-mail support and includes personal e-mail accounts. To tether the Centro to a laptop with a USB cable, customers may opt to include a BroadbandAccess Connect plan in their service package for $30.