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Palm rises from the dead as a zombie brand, launches tiny smartphone
If you recall, Palm, creator of the Palm Pilot and WebOS, bombed out of the smartphone market and was purchased by HP. Palm died at HP after a short run of tablets and smartphones, and eventually Chinese smartphone company TCL snatched up the rights to the Palm brand in 2014, and things have been quiet since then. You might know TCL from running that other smartphone zombie brand, Blackberry.
Today, TCL's Palm presents itself as actual new company with new co-founders, a new logo, and an office in San Francisco. The company is launching the, uh, "Palm" phone (Do we call it the Palm Palm?) and it's taking the "Palm" name literally, with a device small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. The Palm Palm has a practically microscopic 3.3-inch display, and it measures just 96.6mm tall by 50.6mm wide, which is close to the size of a credit card. Palm is pitching the Palm as a "companion" device to your main smartphone, allowing you to leave your big phone behind and bring the Palm in a wallet, on a lanyard, or in any tiny pocket.
This tiny phone also comes with a really tiny spec sheet. You're getting a 3.3-inch 1280×720 display with a respectable 445ppi. This is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 SoC (that's eight Cortex A53 cores, usually at 1.4GHz) 3GB of RAM, and an 800mAh battery. There's 32GB of storage, a 12MP rear camera, 8MP front camera, IP68 dust and water resistance, USB-C, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and LTE.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday October 17 2018, @05:56AM (2 children)
I'd prefer that form factor to the iPhone XS Max (such a crap name...). It's virtually impossible to use that thing with one hand, and it's hard to fit into pockets.
This new Palm would be great for people with tiny hands [insert Trump joke here].
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday October 17 2018, @04:43PM
I just received the most recent "compact" from Sony (for lack of choices - the Nokia equivalent has too many flaws for its price).
Easy to use one-handed, fits in small pockets, enough screen for those who don't spend their life on their phones. But I had to set it to higher density, because modern UIs have an amazing way of wasting pixels (compared to a 20" 1080, there's a 100x less data, which is silly)
(Score: 2) by Marand on Wednesday October 17 2018, @09:23PM
I don't get the name hate, I think it might be the easiest-to-remember model name a phone's had in years. Other companies keep giving Android phones yet another boring old brand name and a number, but only Apple had the courage to do think different, so now its users can proudly proclaim that they own an "iPhone Tennis Match". That's up there with Canonical's unique product releases such as Ubuntu 20.10, Animal Alliteration.