A few months back i made an unboxing & first impressions video
of this phone right here this is pom's phone well i initially knew pond's focus
of this phone's release was redefining a quote small phone i really had no idea
how tiny it was or how it was going to be and my
reaction was 100 real you know that the phone is going to
be small but when you first see it it
it's it's so tiny you'll notice that size is a common
theme in this review from battery to display guts and general
footprint it's the most distinguishing feature of
this palm phone i've been using this phone on and off
for the past few months both as a daily driver and
trying it out as the minimalistic companion phone
that it uh it's targeting but let's first discuss this phone as a daily
driver while i am at my core and ios fan i did
find jumping into my first android phone in a long while rather refreshing
the pom phone runs on android 8.1 with a qualcomm snapdragon 435 processor
and it has three gigs of ram not the best
not the worst it's decent guts for a phone that was released in 2018
but the question is does it stand alone for functionality in 2020
well somewhat yes and somewhat no it depends on your use
for minimal business interactions sure you'll find that you can easily use this
phone for email text and calls but depending on the
frequency of those you may run out of battery fast size of
the battery is probably my biggest qualm with this phone
and it's so tough to critique it at this point because of how tiny the phone
actually is there couldn't be much more space for a
larger battery even if i wanted one it's an 800 milliamp hour battery so if
you're like me and you incessantly check your social
media respond to comments tweet rubbish or play a game you'll find this
phone falls short on its lifespan but even if you're using it sparingly
everything is smooth social media loads quickly typing isn't
as bad as you think with a tiny surface and games run okay too like i said just
don't expect to play them for that long another simple but apparent shortfall
for me is the lack of buttons on this phone
the palm phone has one button located at the top right side
and that's the power button there is no volume or tangible home button on this
phone the display leaves enough room for a
three dot home feature but it's limited functionality and i
would love to have a little bit more screen instead
or even a tangible home button i'm a sucker for those
seriously i love my 7 plus with it and i love the new iphone se
it also doesn't have a headphone jack the only port that this phone has
is the charging usbc port so if you're going to use this phone as a gym phone
make sure you have bluetooth earbuds the camera on this phone is a 12
megapixel 4x3 ratio or an 8 megapixel 16x9 it's all right
the photos aren't bad but they're not terrific
video is 1080p and internal memory is only 32 gigs
but still 32 gigs in this little phone isn't terrible
okay so knowing what you know and how you personally use your phone
would it be a good daily driver for you for me
no but that's when i decided to start using this phone as
i think what it was intended for and that's a companion phone
a supplemental phone to the phone that you carry every day
this for me also had its pros and cons the first pro was it's useful for
productivity having my regular phone streaming music
or something while the palm is in life mode let me get my work done when i
needed to and also keeping limited apps on this
phone kept me from screwing around con you have to carry two phones
this is a really hard phone to say one way or another
yes get it or no don't because it's a really cool piece of little technology
this is a stepping stone for what we may see coming in the next three to five
years for a resurgence of tiny phones this
might have set the precedent for size the other thing about buying this tiny
phone is it's not going to break the bank for you
i found a few different prices of this phone on amazon i'll link them in the
description below if you're still interested
in picking up this cute little guy and with that being said i'm gonna hand the
camera off to a tech creator friend of mine
matt from real world review and he's going to tell you what he thinks
of this year tom phone take it away matt hello everyone matt from real world
review here i want to start by thanking tom for letting me be a part of this
video and you guys should go check out all the
videos that we all have to offer i bet you'll find a video that you'll like
but anyways let's talk about the palm phone like i kind of said i already did
a review on this phone earlier this year so this will be more of an extension of
that addressing other people's questions and
opinions of this phone as well as some extra info that wasn't in that video
let's start with the good this phone is perfect if it isn't a phone
this was made to be an extension device kind of like a smart watch
but the best part is that it still is a phone you can still make calls
use music streaming apps use messaging apps like whatsapp
and watch youtube videos most of the bloke can be deleted
or disabled and actually all of the bloat that i didn't want was easily
removed the screen is actually not that bad at
all it is a small 3.3 inch ips lcd which is pretty obvious but 720p youtube
videos doesn't actually look that bad at all
on this phone it isn't the brightest screen but it works fine in the sun
it's actually surprising how easy it is to type on this phone but there are many
other options that you can use to avoid typing if you don't want to type on it
like voice to text the battery is good and bad
the really good is the charging speed which takes about half an hour for 50
or an hour for a full battery but remember it is just 800 mil amps
it struggles to last through the day at times if you're using a bunch of power
hungry apps but will last through a day as an emergency phone
and especially if you have power saving mode on and that's pretty much what this
phone is it's an at the moment backup phone this
is perfect for quick activities like playing music through bluetooth in the
gym or going grocery shopping no need to lug around your 180 gram or
larger phone when you can slide this credit card size
63 gram phone in your pocket the build quality is actually really nice with
this aluminum in the middle and gorilla glass 3 on the front and the back
but with the weight it seems like it's very difficult to break the screen from
a simple drop and if you drop it in water this ip68
rating will be perfect for it and you can even go swimming with it as
long as the phone doesn't go under a meter and a half
or five feet now the decent is the rest of the specs and where i will probably
get all the hate if i'm being honest the camera works but it isn't anything
special still better than pretty much any device of the size but the 13
megapixel camera works as well as the 8 megapixel front camera
both shoot 1080p video at 30 frames per second and lack
optical image stabilization but that's fine there's actually a lot of camera
features in this app like hdr support and you even get the option for manual
mode something that the iphone 11 pro max
doesn't even have this phone has 32 gigabytes of storage and lacks a memory
card which seems fine but personally i would have liked to see a memory card
slot and esim over a physical sim card slot which
is really difficult to remove like stupid difficult this phone lacks
nfc which isn't really a big deal but it means that you can't use apps like
google pay you do get full turn-by-turn gps support
but this will destroy your battery if it's not on a charger
honestly none of this should be surprising because it runs full
android android go or android 1 would have made more sense
but we still get full android the only downside to that is we have android 8.1
which is pretty old nowadays we do get relatively recent security
updates but still android 8.1 even though android 11 was
just released then we have the processor which let's
be honest it has to be bad because of the battery size
it's not the worst running a snapdragon 435 chip with three gigabytes of ram but
if this is your companion phone to a 2018
or newer flagship phone you'll definitely notice the speed
with all this said this still is a perfect phone for vacations
or using as a burner phone now for this section i was going to talk about the
bad but it isn't really a bad device i mean there are other options that are
technically better at least in my eyes take something like a samsung a01 or
even the samsung a10e minus the inferior quality but bigger
screen this is a better device for the same used price at around a hundred
dollars better processor memory card support
headset jack support much bigger battery and much better
software support but the best thing about the palm phone
that no one can beat even today is the fact that everything is put into
this very compact design and it just works thanks for letting me
rant everyone hope to see you guys around soon
and as always thanks for watching awesome thank you matt
from real world review i'll be sure to include links in the description below
for matt's channel and his palm review it is beautiful thank you dude
regardless of how you feel about this little phone it gets me
pumped to see that pom is trying something new
because as far as minimalistic phones go this is a trailblazer
the size sets precedent for everything we can expect in small phones
in 2020 2021 and beyond it's compact sleek and perfect
if you're into edc stuff it's super cute and uh it works great and that is gonna
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i'm glad we got to do this collab and um that's gonna be it for us thank
you guys see you in the next one peace