Palm Centro users who want more than the manual that comes with a new phone may be interested in this new book entitled “Now You Know Centro”.

Written by Patrick Ames and published by Peachpit Press, the full-color book which is currently priced at $17.99 (around Php 783) promises tips, tutorials, and techniques not disclosed in the PDF manuals.

More than two million Centros have already been sold, Palm announced on its blog this week.

“It seems like just yesterday that someone purchased the one-millionth Centro, and now we’ve sold two million of them,” the blog entry said.

Palm Philippines announced earlier this week that Palm Centro is already available in two colors: black onyx and glacier white. Palm Centro was only in white when it debuted here last April.

I still prefer the white one; it complements the white Asus Eee that I’d like to buy if and when I earn enough money.

Palm yesterday released Palm Treo 800w, a Windows Mobile 6.1-powered Treo which has Wi-Fi, GPS, and high-speed Internet access.

This latest Treo, however, is of no use to Philippine-based users as it runs on a CDMA network, which is not used here, and is exclusive only to subscribers of Sprint, a US telco.

You may get a brand-new Treo 680 for as low as P12,500 during the Microwarehouse mid-year sale, which runs today and tomorrow.

The brand-new red and silver Treo 680, originally priced at P24,800, are sold with opened box but include complete accessories.

Those who prefer a brand-new, silver Treo 680 in an unopened box could get it for P17,500.

Help Firefox set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours by downloading Mozilla Firefox by 12:59 a.m., Thursday.

Recognizing Facebook’s huge membership — having been “recently ranked by M:Metrics as one of the sites people visit most often on their mobile devices” — Palm created Facebook for Palm. I downloaded and tried to install it on my Treo 650, but it isn’t compatible with my device.

StyleTap Platform, I learned, is a mobile software that enables thousands of applications written for Palm OS to run on other devices. Styletap for WM has long been available, while a version for Symbian is already in beta testing. The iPhone version will be released this July.

Juliana of Handycase.com e-mailed me this morning to inform me about the Palm OS freeware on their site. I checked it out and I found interesting, best of all, free Palm games and utilities.

Members of Mapalad, the Philippine Palm Users Group, will meet on June 14, 3 pm at the Power Mac Center at Greenbelt 3, Makati City.

Sprint, a telecommunication company in the United States, has a new television commercial for the Palm Centro, according to reports by Palm InfoCenter and TreoCentral.

The ad shows the different colors and features of Palm’s latest smartphone.

Palm OS may be on the decline, but I don’t believe it’s a dying platform… Palm devices are too useful to be “on the way out.”