Where Can You Buy The Palm Phone

Palm is back with a phone... for your phone?

Think Palm, the almost-male monarch of the early smartphone race? Well, it'southward back...sorta. And with a very unique, very unusual new handset.

First – the resurrection of Palm. This is not the Palm of erstwhile – the new device shares none of that old applied science team that brought us, for example, the Palm Pre.

Instead, it'southward a new device from a San Francisco first upwardly that has simply purchased the rights to the brand from TCL for its own new ideas.

Secondly, the phone itself. It'due south equally much a phone for your telephone, as information technology is a telephone for you lot.

Palm by proper noun, palm-sized by nature

At a mere 50 x 97mm in size with a thickness of 7.4mm, it'south a tiny thing – like a few credit cards stacked on acme of each other. In an age of behemothic screen phablets equally the new standard, Palm's arroyo is different – it's designed to exist a second phone, with a three.3-inch LCD display packing a high-res 445 ppi.

But, and this is where things are actually unusual, not a standalone second phone. Being sold exclusively in the US by the Verizon network, the provider is selling it in the same way as information technology approaches wearables, every bit a $349.99 addition.

So, though the new Palm has its own data programme, it also piggy-backs off your main smartphone, sharing the network'south NumberShare tool to make for a single number across devices, and the Verizon Message+ app to sync your texts beyond both devices too.

Running a forked version of Android 8.one, it has a number of unique software features including a gesture-based single virtual button for navigation along its bottom, a scrolling hexagonal-pattern based apps grid, and a search system that lets you lot scribble letters onto the screen in one of the few ways this phone resembles the original Palm line up..

With Android underpinning information technology so, it's a amend fit for accompanying another Android phone and its shared services than an iPhone, though information technology'd ostensibly work with both.

Who's it for?

Trying to figure out exactly who this is for seems challenging, just Palm sees a niche for those that want a device that lets them escape the constant notifications of their own handset, without cutting out the modernistic cons.

Then at that place's a dedicated 'Life Manner' (which to be honest sounds just like an airplane mode, actually) that turns on a do non disturb-like setting and limits connectivity options, doubling therefore as a batter saving option. With an eight-hour normal lifespan per charge, it's going to be needed.

Elsewhere in that location's Gorilla Drinking glass three, 32GB storage, 3GB RAM, IP68 water and dust protection, 12 and 8MP rear and forepart cameras respectively and, despite the act it's intended as a respite from your daily telephone hell, admission to all the Android apps you've come to expect.

A curio indeed then. And, at to the lowest degree while the Verizon exclusivity lasts, likely to sell simply too as the last few Palms that have come up before information technology.

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Gerald is Editor-in-Chief of iMore.com. Previously he was the Executive Editor for TechRadar, taking care of the site's home cinema, gaming, smart home, entertainment and audio output. He loves gaming, but don't expect him to play with you unless your console is hooked up to a 4K HDR screen and a 7.one surround arrangement. Before TechRadar, Gerald was Editor of Gizmodo United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. He is as well the author of 'Get Technology: Upgrade Your Future', published by Aurum Press.