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An image and a posting at SprintUsers indicates the color options for Palm's Centro smartphone may soon increase by one. So in addition to today's choice of black and red casings for Palm's smallest smartphone ever, you may soon be able to get Centro in pink as well.

Supposedly, Sprint will start selling Centro in pink on January 6th online and at retail a week later, on the 13th. The pink edition should go for the same $99 with a two-year contract as the black and red versions of the smartphone.

With Centro, Palm is targeting the mainstream and the young for the first time with one of its smartphones; or, to put it another way, 95 percent - the vast majority - of mobile phone users.

Although the Palm OS-run Centro sports the Treo's hallmark touch screen and QWERTY thumb-keyboard, it is the first Palm smartphone since the Tungsten W without Treo branding. It measures only 4.2 x 2.1 x 0.7 inches and weighs a mere 4.2 ounces.

Additional features include support for Sprint's 3G network and dial-up-networking via Bluetooth, so you can use Centro as a modem to access the Web or corporate network. You can also use Bluetooth to connect to various peripherals, including hands-free kits, wireless headsets, and GPS devices.

The smartphone's 2.2-inch touch screen supports a 320 x 320 pixel resolution and 65,000 colors. That screen is powered by a 1150mAh removable battery Palm promises will supply up to 3.5 hours talk and 3 days standby time.

Centro’s got 64M of internal storage and a microSD slot for up to 4GB additional memory in a single expansion card.

Take picture and video with Centro's 1.3 megapixel 2x digital zoom digital camera.

In addition to the usual array of native Palm OS applications and bundled software from Palm, including the Blazer Web browser and DataViz' Documents to Go Professional 10 mobile office suite. Bundled Pocket Tunes Deluxe software allows you to listen to DRM-protected audio out of the box for the first time with a Palm OS Palm device.