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posted by mrpg on Wednesday October 17 2018, @04:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the walkers dept.

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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.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @08:37AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @08:37AM (#749861)

    BeOS was pimp. Like unix but no file permissions. Weird OS.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 17 2018, @10:51AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday October 17 2018, @10:51AM (#749900) Homepage Journal

    It is my pride and joy.

    It's the dual 133 MHz G3 model, the original dual G3 was like 64 MHz or some such.

    They were at first designing in the AT&T Hobbit DSP but then after they got their motherboards fabricated but before they populated them, AT&T ceased Hobbit production

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