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Palm Phone for Minimalists
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- pram 7y agoWhy even bother including a camera?
- kevingadd 7y agoTaking photos is an essential part of what these devices need to do, regardless of how small or inexpensive they are.
- ip26 7y agoIt was so close to exactly what I wanted. Unfortunately good battery life was missing- a dealbreaker.
- xrd 7y agoStand by time of 3 days isn't enough?
- saagarjha 7y agoPresumably they’re going to use the device, too?
- andrewfelix 7y agoThat’s without use. Talk time is a little over 3Hrs. I was interested until I read that.
- anoncareer0212 7y agoI have one and that's...very optimistic, even for standby. Lasts 3-4 hours if you're streaming music/podcasts
- kmundnic 7y agoHave you checked the Unihertz Atom phone?
- theturtletalks 7y agoPrice point is kind of high for something like this. Would rather spend $60-70 and get a iPhone 5SE and that comes with a headphone jack.
- qilo 7y agoThis is not a new device, it was released 17 months ago (November 2018).
- truebosko 7y agoYup, I dig this and I hope we see more of this as we enter another phase of mobile devices. My iPhone 11, although a great phone, is unnecessary for me. I love its camera (for photos/FaceTime), everything else is superfluous. I am also terrified with dropping it.
- adenta 7y agoI own one of these, and am a big fan. I bought it a year ago, for $100. Happy to answer any questions.
- saagarjha 7y agoWhere did you find it for $100? It seems to be $300 here.
- adenta 7y agoI bought it used on https://swappa.com https://swappa.com. Looks like there available on Verizon right now. https://swappa.com/mobile/buy/palm-companion-phone/verizon https://swappa.com/mobile/buy/palm-companion-phone/verizon
- barbs 7y ago1. Do you use it as your primary phone or as a supplement to another phone? 2. What do you typically use it for? What apps do you use? 3. What's the battery life like? 4. Do you use the distraction-free features (i.e "life mode") and do you find it effective for reducing unnecessary phone usage. 5. How do you find the keyboard size? Thanks!
- jccalhoun 7y agoThis looks like the same phone they came out with late in 2018 and it was not reviewed well: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/palm-phone-review-fun-endearing-and-bad-at-everything/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/palm-phone-review-fu...
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- loosescrews 7y agoAndroid 8.1 seems pretty old. It doesn't matter how great the hardware is without good software support.
- RandomBacon 7y agoAll those apps? I guess my definition of minimalism is different.
- conception 7y agoUnihertz Atom, The Smallest 4G Rugged Smartphone in The World, Android 9.0 Pre Unlocked Smart Phone with 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KP8J8YN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZAuIEbG7QW690 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KP8J8YN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZA... I have one of these and it actually works pretty well. It’s my “phone break” phone as it’s small enough that you don’t want to use it a lot but you can use it if you need to for Spotify, maps or whatever.
- RandomBacon 7y agoLooks good. How are updates for it, or can it be flashed with a stock ROM?
- bontaq 7y agoIs this actually new? With that said, bring back the Palm Pre
- battery_cowboy 7y agoGod yes, that was the best phone I ever owned.
- numpad0 7y agoPeople running this new “PALM” company probably never even had experiences with Palm products
- clSTophEjUdRanu 7y agoI remember my father's palm Vx
- hackeraccount 7y agoThank you. That makes me feel ancient.
- clSTophEjUdRanu 7y agoI bought a palm pre when I was in infantry school and learned a week later I'd be assigned to a unit in Okinawa Japan where the phone wouldn't work. Cool device though.
- Brajeshwar 7y agoAround the time, just before the COVID Pandemic in India, I was reaching home (Feb 26) in Bangalore and the founder of Sunblaze[1] was flying out. We were able to have an hour of dinner-meeting before he leave for Japan. We were to discuss the opportunity of partnering and helping Indians farmers with a phone that can be sold at the cost price of ₹2,500 (roughly $33 at today's conversion). It runs a modified variant of a prior version of Android. This phone can be a really cheap minimal phone with some "Smartphone" features. I have a piece with me but I have not yet used it and will be given to the engineering team to play around test our apps for it. 1. https://www.sunblaze.jp https://www.sunblaze.jp
- omnifischer 7y agoI bought redmi go instead of this. Admittedly 1GB RAM is slow. But whatsapp + signal only for me.
- exikyut 7y agoThis is cool. I often wonder how much additional bang for buck these sorts of inexpensively-priced phones could get by also aiming at the tinkerer/maker market. Ecosystem fragmentation and staggering hardware competition doesn't really provide anyone the foundation to stably provide an Android-based, market-resilient hackable device akin to the Raspberry Pi, but different vendors have found interesting ways to differentiate what are ultimately low-end devices by providing hacker-friendly features. The general leading example is the PinePhone (https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/ https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/). - The simplest thing would be unlocking the bootloader and documenting your support (warranty etc) position on the use of custom firmware. - Next in complexity would be periodically releasing driver blobs for progressively newer Linux versions - this would enable the community to keep their devices on recent(ish) Android releases with slightly less effort on your end. Given your market positioning, I don't think it would be unreasonable to release firmware on a "it shouldn't brick anything but it is untested" basis - ie, the community is the QC :) - [Resists making unrealistic source code noises :D] - What would probably go down nicely is supplying your own high-res shots to iFixit. Bonus points if the device (or version 2... or 3) is actually easy to disassemble - probably a practical consideration given your market (and the fact that local labor may be cheaper than a new ~$35 device). - This will probably wind up on the website sooner or later anyways, but in line with the previous point, a list of what's in the phone (ie, chip model numbers) would be nice to know. Right now I have no idea if the device has host-side USB, for example. You might decide that the effort associated with pursuing all or any of these may mean straying from your current price targets. That's fine; I just have a bit of a penchant for hacker-enabling really inexpensive Android devices :) NB. I can't see the yellow header text at the top of the page.