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- Palm, the brand behind popular PDA-style phones in the early 2000s, has relaunched with a credit-card sized phone.
- The phone is supposed to act as a companion device to your regular cell that you can more easily use for nights out, workouts, or periods away from your full-fledged smartphone.
- The Palm phone costs $350 and is only available through Verizon.
- Because of Palm's hefty price and incapability with iPhones, it seems more sensible to just buy one of the many smartwatches out there that have similar uses as Palm's phone.
By now we're all familiar with the criticisms about smartphones monopolizing our attention and replacing our real-world interactions.
Enter the new Palm phone: a smartphone the size of your credit card is out here trying to break up that reliance on tech.
First released in November, the Palm phone is designed to be a travel-sized companion device to your larger, regular-sized main smartphone. The company has branded the phone as an "ultra-mobile" device that allows you to "stay present during life's most important moments."
Over the course of a few months, I regularly swapped out my traditional iPhone for the Palm phone when I would go out with friends, travel to the gym, or go to dinner on the weekends - situations where I wouldn't necessarily want, or need, my smartphone and all its capabilities.
Here's what it was like using Palm's tiny companion smartphone: