The Verizon Glyde isn’t a bad cellphone, but it’s outshone by its rivals.  If it had been released back in January at the same time as the F700v appeared, it would have stolen the march on Sprint’s Instinct and all the other touchscreen handsets.  However, users are spoilt for choice at the moment, and we would likely recommend other devices before Verizon’s Glyde.

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The WildCharger pad can charge up to five devices simultaneously.

Before making the purchase, the reviewer emphasized, factor in the price of $60 for the WildCharger pad and an additional $35 per adapter for your iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry 8800, Pearl or a third-gen iPod should be considered.

Ship date is still officially undetermined, but the iPhone and iPod touch cases should launch next month.

Yes, I personally want to purchase this adapter to recharge my BlackBerry Curve 8310 and N95 8GB handset.

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Inside the soap-smooth casing - which at 4.3 x 2.1 x 0.75 inches is smaller than anything from the Treo range - things are nonetheless exciting, with mobile surfing friendly features like EV-DO as well as more control options than you can shake a stick (or stylus at). The QWERTY keyboard is the most obvious, but there’s also a 2.2-inch 320 x 320 touchscreen and a surprisingly tactile D-pad. All that choice adds up to very straightforward use, and while Palm’s OS (version 5.4.9 to be exact) may miss out on the latest in eye-candy there’s something to be said for the four-years of tweaking and fettling its received when simplicity is the key.

Some - inevitably the thick-fingered - have voiced concerns over the size of the keys and the degree of accuracy you might need in pecking at them. In use, though, we were surprised how easy it was to get used to; something about the shape of the keys themselves and the way you’re encouraged to hold the handset thanks to its relatively slender body, perhaps. Keen Treo users may notice the difference, but the rest of us (and, more importantly, Palm’s target demographic) shouldn’t have a problem.

The screen, although 0.3 of an inch smaller in diagonal than that of its Treo siblings, is accurate at responding to stylus taps and renders fonts and images crisply. It’s bright and can be seen both indoors and out, even when in direct sunlight. In fact the quality of the screen really blew us away; videos are particularly sharp, and even Sprint TV - which is being funnelled through the EV-DO connection, remember - comes through beautifully. Sound quality through the supplied earphones is as generic as such bundled cans ever are, but swap over to a decent aftermarket set and you won’t be disappointed. Supporting up to 4GB microSD flash memory cards means there’s a decent chunk of room for all your media.

At 1.3-megapixels and with no autofocus or flash, the Centro’s camera isn’t going to be pushing any dedicated snappers into retirement. Still, lower resolution images mean smaller files, which is good since available onboard memory is limited to just 64MB. Our review sample didn’t come in the final retail packaging, however, so Palm may decide to put a microSD card in the box.

Palm are keen to position the Centro as the fulcrum of your social life, and they’re really pushing the different messaging options. It comes preinstalled with an easy to use multi-platform IM app, compatible with AIM, MSN and Yahoo!, and of course there’s SMS text-messaging as well as email. Common email providers like Gmail, AOL and Yahoo! are indecently straightforward to set up, although of course they don’t support true push-email. The Centro can be set to check for new messages periodically, however.

So far your choice of carrier is limited to Sprint, with the network managing to secure 90 days of exclusivity on the Centro and pricing it (dependent on plan, of course) at just $100. Call quality in our initial testing seems to be the rough equal of the Treo, with the same fullness of tone and missing the annoying hiss that sometimes plagued the 650. Sprint are keen to push their on-demand media, including news, sports updates and Sprint TV, although much of this will cost you extra on top of your normal line rental. A GSM version is inevitable and, although Palm refuse to confirm anything, is likely to appear soon after the exclusive period ends.

Battery life, at this early stage, is difficult to gauge; Palm quote 3.5hrs talk or 300hrs standby from the user-swappable 1150mAh li-ion pack. We’ll bring you a follow-up report after a week or so of use to let you know whether that’s reasonable or not.

Overall, though, the Palm Centro has been a pleasant surprise. Given the tech world’s perpetual hunger for the new and unseen, many decided to dismiss the Centro before it was even officially announced; of course, that ignores the fact that the bulk of the population are neither as obsessive nor bothered about the minutia of the latest smartphone. For them - and they are, of course, those Palm is aiming the cellphone squarely at - the Centro represents a newly affordable option that could look mighty tempting in comparison to the pretty but anaemic handsets normally on offer.

Perhaps, then, Palm has been more canny than they’ve been given credit for; in a market where manufacturers often lament the lack of niche crossover, by remembering that price and positioning are the key factors for achieving interest they may just have opened up a brand new segment. The Centro is unlikely to blow anyone away, but neither will it disappoint.

The phone comes with interchangeable panels for the front in varying colors. My favorite being the orange (which is weird because I’m not an orange person). It is in fact very small; its dimensions being 2.72 inches tall, 1.69 wide and 0.76 inches thick. Actually, the thickness is a little much, I mean it’s great because it is a smaller phone, but it does end up looking a little more chunky. It just depends if you prefer a smaller phone or a thinner phone, you can’t have both just yet.

First things first; man, this is a gorgeous phone. From that headline-catching mirrored display to the brushed metal body and pleasing heft, it’s not only attractive but feels well put together, too. The slide action flicks out with a solid click, and while I’m sure the first time you drop it will inevitably be a heart-in-mouth moment I would be very surprised if you did any real damage.

Let’s stick with the positives for a little while longer. LG’s interface, something I wasn’t familiar with, is straightforward to navigate and, while interesting to look at, doesn’t sacrifice usability for visual flourish. The 2.2-inch, QVGA screen is clear and colourful, and visibility suffers very little from that reflective coating; photographing it, however, is another matter, and it proved very difficult to get reasonable pictures for this review. In use, though, it fares far better.

The camera is a pretty standard 2-megapixel offering, although LG would have you believe that the autofocus and Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens raise it above that of competing models. Actual results are only fair, however, and certainly not up to the quality of, say, Sony Ericsson’s K800i. The built-in LED ‘flash’ makes low-light photography an option, although given its anemic power you’d have to be capturing shots of something pretty close to you.

I can’t help but think that Joan of Arc would be pretty damn unimpressed with modern electronics. Stick with me now, there’s a point coming eventually. Palm’s Treo series have, like the iPod, like perhaps the venerable PlayStation controller, ascended to the state of design icon for a stratum of generations caught in the bloom of portable electronics and information more instant than ever before. And it didn’t take talking bells or a lifetime of purgatory and distrust to achieve it, either; sickeningly short their fame has flourished. So why the Treo and not the perennial favourite the Blackberry? Well, I’d wager that Joan would think its steadfast dedication - to the point of stubbornness - to big corporate business a snub of sorts to the casual cell-loving business person. And so chubby chassis’d and stub aerial’d the Treo cements its place, grinning curve of its thumb-board the only hint of smugness.

More personally, each is interesting to me because I’ve never owned them. I’m yet to find the mp3 player that uncontrollably spills my wallet into someone’s cash register, my skills (and attention span) at gaming amount to a few rounds of Minesweeper and the odd Sudoku, and while the Treo was vaguely attractive its aerial spoilt things and a quick thumbing of the keypad on a store demo unit made me doubt just how useable I’d find it.

Whether that makes me the ideal person to test the new Treo 750v, currently available in the UK from operator Vodafone, or the most unsuitable person I shall leave up to the whims of fanboys and review addicts. There are numerous in-depth reviews of the Windows Mobile 5.0 OS that I don’t intend to rival; instead, this is my Coming of Age in a world of push email and unlimited high-speed cellular data.

Fatter than a Blackjack or Q, less powerful than the rebranded convertible mini-tablets from HTC, you could be forgiven for wondering why the Treo’s industrial design is so praised. At 154 grams it’s comfortably light, and after a few minutes that stout body starts to feel pleasantly pebble-like in the hand, undoubtedly assisted by the soft-touch coating applied to the plastic.