Palm has announced the release of the Palm Centro on Bell Mobility in Canada. The Palm Centro comes in a soft-touch Midnight Black with 128MB of available memory, Facebook for Palm and Google Maps with the My Location feature.

"Centro is the best example of a user-friendly smartphone that's both fun and easy to use," said Brodie Keast, senior vice president of marketing for Palm, Inc. "Centro's sleek and lightweight design makes it perfect for first-time smartphone users who want voice, text, email, web, contact and calendar capabilities all wrapped into one compact device."

"Bell Mobility is pleased to add the Palm Centro to our industry-leading lineup of smartphones, all of them with access to the fastest and largest network across North America," said Adel Bazerghi, Bell Mobility's senior vice president of Products. "Clients who choose the affordable Palm Centro will love the instant access to great mobile applications like Facebook for Palm and Google Maps."

The Palm Centro on Bell retails for $49.95 with a 3-year contract or $399.95 with no contract.