Huge phones are dope. there's no arguing there. but, does a company like Palm have
what it takes to compete in the phone market with a phone that fits in that
little pocket of your jeans that nobody knows what's for? Well, let's check it out
together. Let's break down some first impression, pros & cons and see what
this mini companion phone (or even standalone replacement) has to offer. Hey
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Now let's jump into it. This unit was actually provided by pom after I expect
some interest in them their mission and their products
I think minimalistic phones are super cool I think is a concept they
definitely have a place in the phone world and realm for somebody like myself
who's connected 24/7 I think something like a companion phone could be a very
good fit this particular palm phone seems to be a smaller version of all the
black mirrors that we carry around on a daily basis it is kind of nice to see a
company put some care into their their product box it's nice to have a company
that while you open it it feels like there was thought behind it's it's on
par with an iPhone box or even like a Samsung box it's kind of nice why does
this always happen cool so inside the box right on top is our palm phone and
it's so it is so funny man you know that the phone is going to be small but when
you first see it it it's it's so tiny a little bit of comparison this is not
this is an iPhone 6 plus and this is the palm phone it's it's so cute it looks so
much like an iPhone if it wasn't branded palm I think you could easily fool
people that this was like I baby the iPhone baby the newest phone for your
child it's great okay I want to set this off
to the side for a second and open the rest of the box though there we have a
palm users guide um paperwork and QuickStart guide this is a sim card tool
we have a power brick and a USB C charging cable so I want to take a
better look at this phone and ah there we go beautiful it always feels so
good that's what she said so on the front really does look like an iPhone
the back also has some pretty stunning features that might look familiar too
like a vertical camera and a black glass back it's very sleek has a nice aluminum
outer casing I don't know if you guys are gonna be able to see this but the
antennas for the palm are located on the top you can see these two antenna bands
it's not a terrible placement or also appears to be two antenna bands on the
bottom the rear facing camera has a flash speaker microphone and obviously
when we go to the back its branded palm this is a really cute little phone I
like it I like it quite a bit this phone is literally only two inches
wide and just under four inches long it's comparable with thickness being 0.3
inches thick almost on par with how thick an iPhone 6 would be or I'm
assuming any iPhone at this point I don't believe they got thicker the
display itself is 3.3 inches and is a 720 HD display with 445 PPI pixel
density so it's actually not a terrible screen you can see right here it says
powered by Android and that's because this phone actually runs Android
operating system no watered-down web-based here this bad boy runs Android
so this is the startup sequence I don't I'm not sure we're not gonna set up this
phone on camera right now this is just basically an unboxing and first
impressions and I wanted to give you guys a little bit of specs talking about
this phone in general
so funny enough typing on this is not that terrible it's very small as the
real state of this screen is super tiny but it really does feel like typing on
an iPhone for me so we're gonna put this guy off to the side for a second chances
are at this point you've already seen a couple of the reviews of the palm phone
and the one thing you might be concerned about is battery life from what I've
heard battery is anything but on par with what it should be and while it only
takes 50 to 60 minutes to charge the 500 milliamp hour battery I also heard that
it drains rather fast especially if you use this little companion phone as well
for lack of better words a real phone but again this is just a first
impressions video and I wanted to address that I have heard this and
chances are you f2 I'll definitely be reviewing it and checking the battery
life of this phone in a future video there I'll be outlining my experiences
and my opinions about it but with that aside pomme actually sent me something
else pump sent me a movi battery juice pack
case so what we're gonna do is we're just gonna open this guy up throw the
phone inside and I'll just give you my first impressions on this as well so all
the information on the outside of this box says that the case is actually 900
million powers and it's said to deliver 13 hours of extra battery life oh my
goodness it's so cute does not come charged which is totally ok it is it is
fairly light for a battery a battery pack I don't know what I was really
expecting but all this is for a case is a little plastic insert where it has a
USBC on the inside you plug your phone in clip the top and you are you are
protected I assume as your phone gets low you can hit this little black button
on the back instantly charging your phone while it's still in your pocket
all we do is snap off the top slide the phone in then clip it on it does add a
little bit more dimensions to the phone but it still feels like a child phone I
love it the other super nice thing about this case you can wirelessly
charge your phone so this little guy is actually the first phone that I've ever
owned that has face detection security so I'm pretty excited to test that out
alongside the 12 megapixel rear facing camera and the 8 megapixel front facing
camera I think even more shocking is that this little smartphone is juiced up
with an October ascore Qualcomm 435 processor I read that I don't know what
it means well I know a little bit it means that
there's 8 cores of GPU in this phone and while I'd like to see this phone to have
a little bit more RAM as it only has 3 gigabytes it definitely still packs a
punch in the spec Department ok so like I mentioned earlier this phone actually
runs on Android 8.1 so that means that all the apps available on the Google
Play Star are available to download and use the phone is both waterproof and
dustproof with a resistance rating of ip68 on paper and even in hand this
pint-sized phone is a powerhouse I can honestly say that I am super excited to
use this phone as a companion device and quite possibly as a standalone phone my
first impression of the phone in hand is that it has a superior build quality on
par with the superior quality we know and love from phones like iPhone and
Samsung devices it's not cheaply made and it shows one of the phone's main
focal features is what pomme calls life mode that's that little palm tree right
there like I mentioned earlier as somebody it's connected to their phone
nearly 24 hours a day the life mode feature allows one to be more present in
a moment by disabling notifications so essentially what you're doing by turning
on life mode is turning on airplane mode once the screen is powered back on
airplane mode is then turned off and all the notifications are synced for
retrieval it's brilliant really you can buy this palm phone right now from palm
comm for two hundred and ninety-nine dollars when you purchase from the
website you'll get an unlocked phone there you can look at play
and pick one best fits your needs you can also just use this phone as a
companion device through bluetooth and with that being said I am super excited
to start doing so I am a sucker for tech and as much as I love when phones were
getting really big it's nice to see a company take a stand and put out
something so unique and so small yet so powerful
again Thank You pom for sending me this phone I look forward to checking it out
more reviewing it on the channel if you guys are interested in that video be
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and while you're at it check out another video I will see you guys in the next
one peace