Palm Phone Review: Small tragedy

Unlike most of the phones we review, Palm Phone does not claim to be equal to another device. Do not necessarily claim that good. Palm Palm is released, a companion for the phone that you really like to use. The phone cannot be minimal and limited by design “well” in the traditional sense, but can it be bad in a way that still wants it? Unfortunately, no.

The TCL palm phone is great because of the strange extent. Many phones these days can be predicted and boring, but these phones are at least Interesting. It is not interesting to buy $ 350, and certainly not when you can only get it as a secondary device on your Verizon line already.

Specifications

Goodness

Not very good

Design, devices, what is in the box

The Palm phone is almost a small phone. It is similar to the remnants of that time before modern smartphones when everyone wanted to make devices as small as possible. If the phone is small, it may be very expensive. The palm phone is also. I will give it, as a body, that he feels relatively high quality with aluminum and glass structure. The front and rear glass panels are rounded at the edges, and flow smoothly into the aluminum frame. It appears to be very similar to the extended Apple Watch, and the IP68 is classified.

Palm Phone has a 3.3 -inch LCD 1280 x 720. This is a small width according to today’s standards, but 3.2 inches was a common size for the first wave of Android phones a decade ago. We have come a long time since then, and the palm is a reminder that progress is good. You He can Use the Palm phone, but everything is narrow, and we wish you success in entering the text. On the positive side, the 720p resolution looks so nice and fragile. Facing this, there is a noticeable background lighting bleeding on the edges.

Although the phone has optional transmission buttons on the screen, there is one button below the screen is always active. You can click on the back, a dual home click, and long pressure for multiple tasks. I had made some changes to this setting, but the button is not customized. This phone is practically begging for gestures, but unfortunately. The only material button is the power button on the right edge. It is directly above the SIM hole closed on the phone – you can’t get it out. More on that later. On the bottom edge, we have the only Palm Phone port: A USB Type-C.

I will give this TCL a lot: the palm phone is great. Everyone has offered this phone to get a real kick from it. This does not mean that they want to use it, but people are strangely happy to keep this small phone. It is like a small wine bottle that makes you feel giant, except that you pay Verizon to honor it every month.

Palm Phone should be automatically activated the first time that you start, and a number sharing the “main” Verizon phone (adds 10 dollars to your bill). As mentioned above, the SIM hole is secured in place, so there is no use of this as an ordinary phone. He is a companion for your big phone, and that’s all. It works simultaneously alongside the other device, but with Palm LTE so you can get it out and leave the other phone at home. This is the stadium – your regular phone distracts your attention, so take this little thing that you will not want to use instead. I don’t think Verizon made a convincing argument for the Palm phone.

Palm Phone comes with no accessories to talk about. There is the phone and 5W charger. There is no headphone adapter. Verizon sells some strange small cases of the phone, but none of them are included.

Software, performance and battery

When I started getting a Palm phone, I was surprised to see it just an old Android preparation experience. For some reason, I expected TCL to strip the operating system more, but it contains most of the features of your larger phone. They are difficult to use in frustrating because Android has exceeded small screens.

Due to the lack of a fingerprint sensor, you have the option to prepare the opening of the face or use a standard pattern/pin, a password for safety. The feature of opening the front is used, so it is not particularly effective or safe. The preparation also asks if you want your phone to work in “Life mode”, which prohibits all notifications when the phone is asleep. When you wake up, only boycott applications can be selected. This is JIVES with the supposed state of use to reduce digital deviations. Frankly, it makes the phone confusing to use. Android has an unbearable position that does not work well. The palm phone has DND, too. Again, this is confusing.

The bomber may be the strangest part of the program’s mystery. At the top, you get a standard search bar from Google. Below is the scroll list widely of three fish of applications. This is your “favorite” menu, which is similar to the home screen on other applications. Scroll down, and you will get an inflated pass list from all other applications. It is a strange arrangement that amazes me only to be different. It will be a nightmare to find anything if you have more than a few installed applications. I like TCL included Google Discover with criticism to the left. On the right is an optional user interface element page. Palm does not seem to support the background images on the operator, but you can use a third -party application to add an image.

Palm Phone has a type of “Night Tropical” theme: black wallpapers with orange, pink and green dialects. I find the colors somewhat enjoyable, in fact. The trait extends to the keyboard, which is a dedicated version of Fleksy. For a reason that does not be seen, the stock keyboard does not support the writing of gestures. Enter the text on the palm phone painful Even when switching a better program keyboard. This was what was the case in writing on phones a decade ago, and I do not want to return.

3GB is likely to be of RAM and Snapdragon 435 power more than this device. TCL could have stripped the collection of features more and slapped the MediaTek chip for the bottom of the palm to make it cheaper. The animation is smooth, which is amazingly amazing. Well, the switch between applications is difficult due to the size of the screen, but it remains in the memory well enough. However, there are some problems with the total speed. Sometimes, the Palm phone is suspended when you open the applications or go to the home screen. It is not a quick phone, but it may be fast enough for the intended use state.

With a meager 800 mAh battery, you should not expect the Palm to last for a long time even with the small screen. I have made a good attempt to use this phone completely, although it was. I browsed the web, the orbit email, take pictures, and the broadcasting music, and sent messages on this mini phone. It seems that the Palm phone gets a little more than two hours from the screen time, and will not make it a full day. It is not really intended, though. When you connect it, Palm Phone receives only 5W, but again, the 800 mAh battery is not something. A lot will receive a lot.

camera

Palm Phone contains one 12 -megapixel camera facing a background and 8 -megapixel sensor. I do not have much positivity to say about the camera on this phone – it looks like a later idea and completely dispute with the intended use of Palm Phone. Here are some pictures.

In bright light, palm phone can sometimes take a good picture. Colors are kept silent, and many objects have unusually soft quality, but they are likely to escape their download on social media. However, long capture times and automatic image focus makes it difficult to get a good shot. At night, you just don’t care. Palm Phone pulls very little light so that you can barely perform some pictures that could have been passed if taken on other phones. Allow me to remind you, the palm costs $ 350. Any smartphone phone will launch great superior pictures.

Therefore, these pictures are clearly bad, and the “accompanying phone” excuse does not keep water here. If you are going somewhere as you intend to deal with your human colleagues instead of your phone, you may still want to take some pictures. This is something people do in social gatherings. Palm Phone has a terrible camera. If it is good in only one thing, this should be.

Should you buy it?

no. I like this phone is exist because it is strange, and most phones can be predicted these days. This is not enough to make it a good purchase. Verizon demand rates and facilities requirements make this unprecedented.

As a smartphone, the palm is a bad experience. The screen is very small so that it is not comfortable for modern applications that expect more real estate – things are cut, and the writing is horrific. TCL attempt to make the minimal experience with features like a bomber and life falls, too. Palm Phone is fun to play with him for a few minutes, but I can’t imagine that this thing is regularly with me in one night instead of my real phone. The terrible camera alone is enough to postpone me.

Palm Phone is a modernity of $ 350, which is one that you will feel quickly. You spend this money because the phone is small and wonderful, not because it deserves it a lot. TCL should have made this cheap, unlikely cheap phone – storage lower, random access memory less, and not disturb the camera even if it is bad. At $ 99, people may bite people for the grandmother, but not at $ 350 with additional monthly fees.

Buying it:

You love small electronics, no matter how impractical.

Do not buy it:

You want to use a good phone.