By Perry Gonzalez

I love games. I will admit I’m not that good when it comes to certain types of games. (My eye-hand coordination is not always on the same page, so I’ve “lost” many a Lara and Jedi Knight.) And forget role-playing games! I just look at them and go “Duh….Pretty.” I do like a good racing or flying game. But no complex strategy please! I just want to race or fly…and shoot sometimes.

So I tend to be attracted to games like Text-Twist, Cubis, Shanghai, Farkle (my present favorite), and of course Bejeweled 2. And the thing I’ve learned to appreciate over the years, regardless of super graphics, is the importance of gameplay. Of course, the game pretty much has to grab me immediately.

Could your phone save your life? Perhaps it could if you have MyRapidMD. I recently spoke to Damien Vallernaud, Chief Operating Officer of MyRapidMD, at CTIA. Not only can you keep your up-to-date medical history where first responders can find it, but right now you can get a free lifetime subscription....

Using alternate voicemail with Sprint can be painful. Sprint customer service very begrudgingly changed my "no answer, forward" number to YouMail so that I could try it out.

(N.B. for Sprint customers: The customer service representative (CSR) who I spoke to assured me that customers can now set the "no answer, forward" number themselves. Unfortunately, the code she gave me to use didn't work. So be firm with Sprint CSR if you want to take advantage of services like YouMail.)

YouMail has some innovative and fun features. The basic premise behind YouMail is that everyone should be greeted personally, and traditional voicemail doesn't do that. So while you can have a standard outgoing message to everyone, you can also have dozens of personal outgoing messages played to individual callers that you can change whenever you want. YouMail matches your caller's caller ID with your address book to give each caller a totally unique voicemail experience.

Much has been discussed in the forums about screen protectors. We almost universally agree that they are a necessity, but which is the best? That decision is about to become just a little harder. Listen to Kirk Feller, and watch him demonstrate BodyGuardz, a seemingly indestructible shield for your screen or your entire device.

By Braddock of Love Systems, with Nick Savoy

Have you ever met someone great, gotten their phone number, but it never seemed to turn into a date?

Recently, Nick Savoy, President of Love Systems, Inc., wrote an article and recorded a podcast for centrosite.com to introduce what he calls “dating science.” He explored techniques taught by his twenty instructors at one of the most successful social coaching companies in the world. Nick’s instructors and methodology were recently featured on Dr. Phil, Keys to the VIP, Fox News and a host of other popular shows....

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & TORONTO, Apr 22, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) and City Chase Inc. today announced that Palm(R) Centro(TM) smartphoneswill aid thousands of U.S. contestants competing in physical, intellectual and humorous challenges during the 2008 City Chase events in eight major cities - Philadelphia, Atlanta, San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Boston, Seattle and Chicago. Over four months, the Palm Centro will help teams complete tasks, search for ChasePoints and ultimately win a spot in the national and world championships of the City Chase urban-adventure race.

BOGOTA, Colombia, Apr 16, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- After recently announcing the sale of its one-millionth Palm Centro in the United States, Palm, Inc. today introduced its popular smartphone in Colombia through Comcel and Movistar.

With a fun, new compact design, Centro is Palm's smallest and lightest smartphone. Centro helps users manage email and text messaging, keep track of their schedules, stay up-to-date on the latest news, capture and share pictures, and get directions on Google Maps -- all in one small, fun compact phone. Its full keyboard also makes it easy to quickly type text messages and emails with complete thoughts and ideas. Centro has everything a person needs to stay organized and connected with everyone who is important to them, whether it's family, friends or co-workers, and it's particularly attractive to users who are migrating to their first smartphone.

To bling or not to bling. That is the question. Of course, there is such a wide range of cell phone accessory bling available now, you can go from tacky to tasteful by merely changing cases.

The CTIA 2008 cellular phone conference was proof that accessory manufacturers have suddenly realized there are at least as many women as men with mobile phones. And by some stroke of luck, they realized that women are far more likely to buy and own multiple cases for those phones than men. They are, after all, accessories – and accessorizing is something at which we women have excelled for generations. I have captured two shining examples in video that take you from the refined to the "so over the top I am at a loss for words."

Palm is clearly very good at carrier relations. Palm smartphones that start out popular in America and Europe quickly spread to carriers throughout those continents and elsewhere in the world.

Recently, Palm announced significant new deployments of the Centro smartphone. StarHub Mobile is rolling out the device in Singapore, and Telcel and Movistar are releasing the phone in Mexico. The Centro is being sold in Mexico in blue, a new color.

Last week more than a thousand exhibiting companies and 40 thousand professionals converged in Las Vegas at the largest mobile phone conference in America. Many announcements were made and products revealed, including a new version of Windows Mobile, exciting new devices, and fabulous creations by incredible software and accessory companies.

Naturally Centro Site was well represented at the event! Hear directly from Alli Flowers in her podcast with J. Edward Rutkowski (msmobiles.com) and Tadd Rosenfeld (mytreo.net) about the latest and greatest technologies and trends she saw at the event. In addition, hear from Mickey Papillon (Cell Phone Junkie) at the outset of the recording about breaking smartphone news.

Thought we pushed the envelope with a "Romance, sex and Centro Smartphones" podcast? Palm and AT&T are announcing a pick-up line contest.

(We aren't making this up.)

Submit the worst, funniest or best pick-up line you’ve heard (or delivered) at palmpickup.com April 5 - May 17 and be entered in a daily drawing to win a free Palm Centro smartphone. Vote and post comments, or entice your friends to do so and if your line rakes in enough appeal, you’ll also have a chance to win a Royal Caribbean cruise.

Just for registering, you are eligible for the grand prize-- a VIP party in Las Vegas for you and five friends. You’ll also have the option to receive a weekly text, about the top picks of the week, ensuring your “game” at the next party.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM - News) today announced that it has sold its one-millionth Palm® Centro™ smartphone, demonstrating the $99 product’s mass appeal to customers ready to get all the power of a smartphone at the price of a traditional mobile phone. Palm is now shipping Centro in 10 countries worldwide, including Hong Kong, Singapore, India, the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland, France and Italy, and its already-rapid momentum is set to grow as Palm debuts the product in additional countries around the globe.

Palm's GSM Centro has now been out several weeks, and many have had a chance to check it out. I'm going to make the expected comparisons to the original CDMA Centro, but mostly I'm going to ask, "Why has Palm implemented subtle differences in this device?!"

For some reason, Palm engineers used the unique tabbed dialing screen from the Treo 680 on the GSM Centro, rather than the same dialer as the CDMA Centro, and all the other Treos. The question is, "why?"

If the GSM Centro phone screen is so compelling, why didn't Palm include it on the Treo 755, which came after the 680, and why not use it on the CDMA Centro? (Out of sheer curiosity, I posted a user poll on the subject in the Centro forum.)

Clip In Touch is a service being rolled out by carriers (and other content providers) that allows users to send greetings to multi-media enabled mobile phones for free. Simply design a greeting using your desktop or Centro browser and the Clip In Touch site, and send it to anyone or everyone you know via e-mail or MMS. Clip In Touch offers a database of professional images, videos and music that can be combined to create greetings, or you can upload your own multimedia files (such as photographs, songs or your own recordings).

We caught up with the company last month and received an in-person demonstration. They showed us how to create a greeting and what a resulting MMS looks like on a mobile phone. The service is a lot of fun for sending joke messages to friends or for sending well wishes to loved ones on holidays.

As I'm driving to school, I suddenly remember something I needed to tell my mother. But at this hour, she's not likely to have her phone on. If I wait until I get to school, I'll have forgotten what I wanted to tell her, and I really can't email while driving. So I Jott her.

Speed dialing is a snap when driving, so I just speed dial Jott, and dictate a quick email. It's off my mind, and waiting on her computer when she logs in to read her email with her morning coffee. The quality of the voice recognition is truly remarkable, but the even more astounding part, is that Jott is absolutely free!