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Palm-branded Smartphones Could Return This Year (techcrunch.com)
Palm's smartphone return appears to still be on track for 2018. From a report: Last year, an executive at TCL confirmed that the dearly departed mobile brand would be making a comeback as part of the smartphone conglomerate's portfolio, and with a little under five months left in the year, the 'PVG100' has hit the FCC and WiFi alliance. The handset was spotted by Android Police, but we don't really have much more to go on than a name and a couple of WiFi bands. As the site notes, however, the absence of 5GHz support leads one to surmise that this won't exactly be a barn-burning flagship. The handset also looks to be running Android 8.1 -- not really a surprise, given that Android Pie is still limited to Pixel and a smattering of other devices.
Is a Zaurus phone.
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
Another mediocre Android phone w/a Palm logo on it... Big F'in Deal!
Give me an updated WebOS phone and you have my interest. Otherwise, this will end up in the clearance bin and be more evidence of a curse being associated with the Palm name.
The PalmOS and WebOS were the leading mobile OS's many of its aspects are still in Android and iOS today.
The problem with WebOS wasn't WebOS but the fighting with Apple with its hacked iTunes support, back in the days where the iPod was still king, and iTunes was the best place to get music. Palm hired a bunch of Ex Apple Engineers to hack their phones to look like an iPod so it can sync with iTunes. Causing Apple to block the hack for Palm to make a new one.
What this did with Customers is giving them a feature that didn't work consistently. And failed to differentiate WebOS from just an iPhone wannabe.
What made Android so popular is that it didn't try to be an iPhone but not by Apple, but a different type of device. And a different experience. Sure they may trade some features with Apple and Android but they are very different systems.
WebOS was poorly marketed as an iPhone with Beta features that havn't been fully thought out.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I was just going to post the same thing - why on earth should I care about something that has the Palm name, and not anything related to PalmOS? It's not like Palm hardware was ever perfect (though the Palm V was pretty good).
I'm not sure who they are targeting with this phone.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Nice phone for old folks.
Really? I can't see it selling much maybe just people buying them for the nostalgic factor,
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Their 'task manager' to do list was fantastic. I wish there was something as simple and powerful. You could make unordered lists so easily and sort them by priority. It was wonderful.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
Another mediocre Android phone w/a Palm logo on it... Big F'in Deal!
Give me an updated WebOS phone and you have my interest. Otherwise, this will end up in the clearance bin and be more evidence of a curse being associated with the Palm name.
I can see it now, get your Palm Bell+Howell phone on the oldies channels.
Right after the catheter ad and before the "tactical flashlight" ad that gives me seizures with that ex-fighter pilot Navy SEAL commando dude..
Nobody wants to buy shit from these zombie brands. Attempting to trade on nostalgia for a previous time and product isn't a good business model generally. Every few years you see the same thing with the Atari and Commodore brands. All of the products end up either being vapor ware or just garbage.
Color me unimpressed.
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Good lord, a new phone which is failing to support a wifi technology which has been around for several years?
That's pathetic.
I can't imagine people will be all that keen on this phone, because leaving out 5GHz wifi tells me they've made dumb design decisions and cheaped out ... which tells me nobody is going to want one.
I had a Pre+ back in the day. Pretty good phone (except for that darn repeating "e" key and GPS that never worked).
But who cares. Palm and WebOs are gone, done, finito. Several OS' now have many of the cool features that webos invented (although I miss their implementation of consolidated email/contacts).
While my HP printer uses webos - I don't get a sense of nostalgia when I select "double-sided color" or "scan to cloud."
Lots of questions....Will they actually invent something, new Android features? Will it be as inventive as Palm once was?
Or just another Android phone with a by-gone logo and sold on "CircuitCity" or "RadioShack" dot-com ?!
To this day I still use my Sony Clié TH55 running PalmOS 5 - It is a minor miracle that despite being over a decade old it is still working! (Shoutouts to https://www.palmdr.com/ for repairing the thing when I've broken it and replacing the battery when needed!!)
It is absolutely disgraceful how powerful smartphones are yet they are still less usable than this thing -
I can operate it with gloves on,
I can enter data on it without having to look at the screen, meaning it is a great replacement for a notepad when talking to someone face to face,
The battery lasts nearly a week with USE, not just on standby (I've yet to see a smartphone that can last longer than 2 days when being actively used),
It is INSTANTLY responsive all the time - Even the most powerful smartphones have such irritating delays and lags when switching apps or doing anything when they've been on for a while.
The fact that it only has a 123MHz CPU and 32MB of RAM vs the multi-GHz and GB equipped smartphones and is consistently more responsive is sickeningly tragic.
The only downside with it is you do need some intelligence to use it; Learning Graffiti can take some doing for instance.
TCL has burned a number of own smartphone brands, and threw them out.
TCL has burned the Alcatel brand, and threw it out.
Now they will do the same with Palm
Besides the fact that this is just another Android phone (that doesn't even run a clean version of the OS), I think that it looks pretty nice. Just the design seems to set it apart, somehow. I won't necessarily buy it (I crowdfunded the Purism phone) but I still think it's good to have a phone that is somehow "different" from the pack.
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Make it rootable and it will increase sales.
Whatever happened to the brand named rosyPALM? Supposedly it was owned by Apple.