The coolness of my new Centro just keeps kicking me in the ass. Just now I needed to make a vet appointment for my cat. So I googled the vet clinic using the Centro's browser, and noticed that the clinic phone number was a link. With my old phone, I'd have to write it down, add it to my address book, then call it. But just for the hell of it, I clicked the link -- and the Centro not only dialed the number, but added it to the contact list with all the clinic info filled out correctly. That. Fucking. Rocks.
Ok, I'm easily impressed. But this is what technology is supposed to be all about, and seeing so much LAME tech in the world often gets me down. The Centro is... refreshing.
I'm a little annoyed that there's no way to lock both the touchscreen and the keyboard while on a call; but I'm treating that (very minor) issue as an opportunity to learn PalmOS programming.
I also wish I could justify the $40/month cost of the "Phone as Modem" feature, so I could connect to the internet from any old place. But I'd only use that, like, three times a year, so probably not cost-effective. Though it occurs to me that if I could establish an IP connection to the phone from my laptop, writing a little PalmOS app to tunnel connections through the phone (basically using it as a NAT router) might be easy.