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Uh oh! At a press event today Sprint spilt the beans on an upcoming Palm handheld officially called the “Centro” and it seems that this device will be the smallest Palm OS device the company has ever made.

The Centro has possibly the tiniest QWERTY keyboard I’ve ever seen. It’s infinitesimal: it’s actually impossible to type on this thing with two thumbs. The keys on the model I tried were little clear rubbery bumps, below a cursor pad and the usual Palm OS quick application buttons. Seeing me get frustrated trying to puzzle out letters on this tiny thing, a Sprint rep stepped in to say that it was for the “youth market” – in other words, kids with nimble fingers and sharp eyes to read the small screen. On the other hand, it’ll fend off the argument about Treos being chunky, that’s for sure.

It is targeted to a younger “hipper” demographic and will be fully EVDO capable. Palm has confirmed that they will release more details in the coming weeks. []