What you’re seeing above is the first Palm smartphone since the Pre 3 was announced in 2011. Currently codenamed ‘Pepito,’ this new handset is headed for Verizon, and it’s the possibly the weirdest Android phone of 2018. Sporting a tiny 3.3-inch 720p LCD screen, Pepito is easily the smallest Android device in years to be sold in the USA, and probably one of the smallest in the world. The diminutive size doesn’t end at the display – this phone will have a tiny 800mAh battery, we’ve been able to confirm. That probably doesn’t make this phone much of an all-day device, and it really is a bit of a head-scratcher.
The Pepito is powered by a Snapdragon 435 processor and, oddly, has 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage according to our source. Of course, it’s possible there could be multiple storage and RAM SKUs depending on region and operator. We don’t have any information about where this device is being released aside from Verizon here in America.
Not the highest-specced phone, but I like the elegant design and tiny size – bucks the trend, really, in a welcome way. The logo needs some work though.
The battery capacity is about one third or one fourth of a reasonable size.
Doesn’t matter if the power consumptionis a 3rd to a 4th that of a flagship phone
The screen is tiny and the CPU is crappy. But it is on an old process and some power needs are the same (RAM, LTE, wifi, BT, GPS) and some stuff needs to be done anyway (so the CPU will stay on for longer time).
Some people don’t want a big phone and there isn’t really much market offering for them. This will fill a niche and maybe it will be successful. Remember all those naysayers that made fun of the Galaxy Note?
I scratch my head at the battery capacity, though. Maybe because of the small screen it will last more?
Perhaps a phone targeted to kids and the battery life would prevent them from spending too much time of their phone ?
That would be even worse. They would be glued to their phones and to an electric plug.
At least parents would just have to follow the wire to find their quiet kids at the other end.
Yep, and give it a good yank!
Looks like the front screen of an iPhone 3G had a baby with the back of an iPhone X
The 3GS is still the best phone that Apple ever produced.
I would LOVE A 3GS with updated specs.
What’s a device like this actually useful for? A screen that small isn’t going to be usable for most of the things you might normally want a smartphone for ^aEUR“ my own phone is a 4.3″, and that’s almost unusable for a lot of apps and web sites these days.
Anything smaller, and you might as well just go with a dumb-phone and get decent battery life…
How about a small powerful smartphone with a big battery? Smaller screen means smaller dimensions making it possible to increase the thickness without becoming unwieldy – a win/win IOW.
IMO something like the HTC legend with smaller screen borders and removal of hardware keys would be close to perfect.
So, HP still owns the remains of Palm?
Nope. TCL is the new owner (TCL also owns Alcatel and BlackBerry (but only the name BlackBerry for hardware, the actual BB is still Canadian but only develops software now)).
What software is BlackBerry left with after their downfall?
Android, but very, very secured. Works like a charm on my new KEY2
Hm, and does Blackberry still own/develop QNX?…
I also wonder if TCL brings old hw engineering teams under its wings (Alcatel and BB maybe, Palm I doubt, it has been dead too long) or just buys the brand…
Nowadays everyone have minimum of 5 inch display mobiles on their hands. This palm’s mobile screen is very small but it comes with 3gb ram which is better feature.
Everyone? My new BlackBerry KEY2 has a 4.5″ screen, which is plenty big for me.
In the 90’s and early 2000’s, having the smallest possible phone was *the* status symbol.
I remember that fondly. I always got picked at for having a phone “the size of a refrigerator” (their exact words!), but nowadays a lot of people are sporting devices that are twice the size of my big phones back then.
Yep, I loved my Nokia 6100. When everyone suddenly wanted a camera on their phone, this was one of the last without one. Lovely and compact, with a colour screen and decent Java apps available (I had a rather good conversion of Prince of Persia on mine), yet an excellent battery life, it was perhaps my favourite phone of the era. Simpler times…
I could see a few uses for such a device but the battery capacity would probably be a show stopper.
If it ran long enough, at the right price, it would be a great phone to drop in your pocket when you go for a walk or a run in the outdoors, or out for a drink in your skintight pants.