Compact Phone by Palm

I really like the Palm, the only drawbacks are the battery life and it doesn't work internationally. It keeps you off your phone and if that's not what you want don't get it. But if you would like to see more of the world and less of your screen its great.

I have been using this phone everyday (2 months) as my after work and weekends phone, and it's great. ( I have a full sized work phone i use during the day, but I have the standalone Palm as a personal device) Why is it great? it's small, light, has great bluetooth reception, and forces you to narrow the scope of what you expect a smart phone to do all the time. The root of this phone is escape from email and notification blitz, to take a quiet walk and only be available to the smallest number of people you want to connect with, while still streaming music, tracking your steps and having available contacts. It's not a phone you have an instant messenger/facebook/twitter/what's ap/reddit/ig/tiktok on, that's not the point. Use life mode judiciously, check your email when you want to, not on someone else's schedule. The screen is beautiful the small form factor with a relatively high resolution leads to a 'retina' level high dotpitch ~440ppi. The UI needs some work, there are some interactions with menu items that take some getting used to ( like the life mode disable popup taking a click and dismiss before the option bar comes up, allowing for multiple popups if you click multiple times before dismissing. I hope there are future versions of this phone that keep this form factor maybe go a little bigger just to match the size of a standard credit card to make cases fit better.