Thing of the day: a miniature smartphone from Palm

In 2016, the former Samsung designers Nook Howard (Howard Nuk) and Dennis Maylosheski (Dennis Miloseski) founded a startup Palm, bought the rights from the Chinese TCL to use the brand and two years preparing the first product under the revived mark.

Their debut device - smartphone compact size of a credit card. It is positioned as an additional gadget to main phone and is intermediate between the present embodiment and PHABLET smart watches. Palm dimensions are 97 × 50 × 7.7 mm, and the device weighs 62.5 g

The device is equipped with a 3.3-inch LCD-c display resolution 1280 × 720 pixels. Within the established core Snapdragon 435, 3GB of RAM and 32 GB of flash memory. For shooting is the main camera 12 megapixels and 8 megapixels on the front. Screen and rear glass panel device reserved Gorilla Glass 3. Also fortified enclosure standard IP68.

Fingerprint scanner in the new Palm is not present, but the smartphone is able to recognize the user's face. Engineers abandoned mini-jack, and left only the USB-C port. The device has a module Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 4G LTE. Battery capacity is 800 mAh. The device runs on Android 8.1.

Smartphone does not support the conventional SIM card - in it there is only ESIM system, which allows you to sync it with the main phone to use one number for two phones.

While Palm - exclusive to Verizon in the US. On sale it will appear to November 2018 at a price of 350 dollars.