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  • 1src,  centro,  palm

    Here Comes Centro Claus

    December 22, 2020 /
    Palm Centro Holiday Ad Campaign 2008

    With the holidays just days away, I am listening to many of my favorite classic and modern Christmas albums. As a nerd, my favorite tech holiday album, hands down, has to be Claus Remixed: Santa’s Gone Centro. Centro, as in the Palm Centro – the smaller Palm OS sidekick to the larger Treo 755p. For the youngsters in the room, or for us old geezers who may have forgotten, 2007’s Palm Centro was the iPhone 12 mini of the day.

    Palm Centro Holiday 2008 Ad Campaign

    In an attempt to convince people how cool the Centro was, in December 2008, Palm put together an over the top social media campaign. As part of that campaign, several videos were posted to Facebook and a promotional CD was released with funky holiday themed tracks. The included tracks were:

    • Christmas In Hollis – Rondo Brothers feat. Motion Man
    • Jingle Funk – Breakestra
    • The First Noel – Donavon Frankenreiter
    • Winter Wonderland – Johnny Mercer
    • Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah – Erran Baron Cohen
    • Samba Dreidel by Pacha Massive

    Of the tracks on the album, Christmas In Hollis is my favorite and I would use the first few seconds of the track in a few of the 1SCR.com Palm Powered Podcast episodes in December.

    There is not much archived online from this popular Palm ad campaign for the Centro smartphone. For those who want to put this campaign in perspective, Steve Hawley still has a short video posted to Vimeo that highlights the positive outcomes from the campaign.

    Palm Centro Unlocked GSM edition
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    Alan Grassia
  • 1src,  podcast,  preswitcher

    1SRC Podcast 212

    June 12, 2009 /

    The latest 1SRC Podcast has been posted for your listening enjoyment.

    This week, on the 1SRC Podcast, I cover:

    • Reggie has launched 1SRC sister site PreSwitcher.com.
    • Ed Colligan is leaving Palm.
    • Palm Launches the Pre Smartphone on Sprint!
    • First impressions of the Pre and webOS.
    • Accessories for the Pre.
    • MotionApps Classic for webOS.

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    Alan Grassia
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    1SRC Podcast 211

    June 1, 2009 /

    The latest 1SRC Podcast has been posted for your listening enjoyment.

    This week, on the 1SRC Podcast, I cover:

    • All of the Sprint Palm Pre documents are leaked on the Internet.
    • Palm demonstrates additional features of Palm webOS.
    • ComputerWorld’s Top 5 Pre cool features.

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    Alan Grassia
  • 1src,  podcast

    1SRC Podcast 210

    May 7, 2009 /

    The latest 1SRC Podcast has been posted for your listening enjoyment.

    This week, on the 1SRC Podcast, I cover:

    • BoyGeniusReport claims they have the pricing model for the Palm Pre on Sprint.
    • Rumors are flying this week about the Centro replacement, the Eos.
    • Will the Foleo II with Palm webOS be the netbook Foleo always should have been?

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    Alan Grassia
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    1SRC Podcast 209

    April 27, 2009 /

    The latest 1SRC Podcast has been posted for your listening enjoyment.

    This week, on the 1SRC Podcast, I cover:

    • Palm Pre abuse? I hope so!
    • Obligatory blurry photos of the Pre running a YouTube app
    • Smack talk from AT&T dissing the Palm Pre

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    Alan Grassia
  • 1src,  podcast

    1SRC Podcast 208

    April 19, 2009 /

    The latest 1SRC Podcast has been posted for your listening enjoyment.

    This week, on the 1SRC Podcast, I cover:

    • MotionApps updates their Classic FAQ; reveals more details.
    • Ludle.net leaks some new Pre details; says Pre is in mass production.
    • Will Palm charge $70 for the totally cool Touchstone? Probably.
    • Windows Mobile Minute: My impressions of Palm’s new Treo Pro (Sprint Edition)

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    Alan Grassia
  • 1src,  podcast

    1SRC Podcast 207

    April 11, 2009 /

    The latest 1SRC Podcast has been posted for your listening enjoyment. Starting with show 207, I will be offering the show in .AAC format for people who listen to the show in Apple iTunes or on their iPhone and iPod. This “enhanced” podcast will include chapter markers and artwork.

    This week, on the 1SRC Podcast, I cover:

    • How would you change 1SRC?
    • 1SRC Podcast enhancements
    • Palm and MotionApps announce Classic for webOS
    • Palm talks “cloud services” for webOS and the Mojo SDK
    • Windows Mobile Minute

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    Alan Grassia
  • 1src,  podcast

    1SRC Podcast 206

    April 2, 2009 /

    The 1SRC Podcast came back from hiatus this week and I sum up what has been going on in the Palm community for the last few weeks.

    Listen to 1SRC Podcast 206…

    This show was written and recorded before Palm’s announcements earlier today at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Be sure to listen to next week’s podcast for more news and my usual brand of wingnut analysis.

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    Alan Grassia
  • 1src,  podcast

    1SRC Podcast 205

    February 12, 2009 /

    For the latest 1SRC Podcast, the show’s original host Jeff Kirvin joins me, along with 1SRC member Rick Cartwright, as my special guests to discuss the Palm Pre smartphone and the new webOS mobile operating system.

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    Alan Grassia
  • 1src,  podcast

    1SRC Podcast 204

    January 16, 2009 /

    This week on the 1SRC Podcast, I cover the recently announced Pre smart(er)phone powered by Palm webOS. I talk about what is really cool about the new hardware and software as well as some of the things that I don’t. (I’m not a big fan of sliders. Maybe the Pre’s slide out keyboard will be better than the sliders on the Tungsten T, T2, and T3.) I also cover some of the things that I really want to know more about, like how Synergy works, how will the Pre sync with a Mac or PC without going out to the cloud, and whether or not there will be tools to sync over a wired connection.

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