Palm's Weird New Tiny Smartphone Sidekick Says Something Sad About Our Phones

as mentioned in It's back Monday with something truly weird: The Palm, a tiny Android-powered smartphone that's meant to supplement, not replace, your current handset. "Palm isn't a replacement for your primary smartphone, it's a fully connected companion that is in-sync with your primary device, making mobile truly mobile again," reads Palm's website. Still, the Palm's very existence underscores a sad reality of today's smartphone industry. Companies like Apple and Samsung are making bigger and bigger devices because they tend to sell well. So Palm's entire raison d'etre stems from the mainline smartphone makers' abandonment of the comparatively small-handed, or just people who prefer smaller devices.

Look Out, Nintendo: New Smartphone Doesn't Shy Away From Pinpointing Its Competition

Chinese networking and mobile giant Huawei introduced a new smartphone this week that it claims is a competitor in the video game space to the Nintendo Switch. The Mate 20 X is a 7.2-inch smartphone that CEO Richard Yu boasted as "the best portable mobile gaming machine." Variety reports that the event was ostensibly to debut two new phones, but Huawei finished its presentation with the surprise announcement of the Mate 20 X as well. The Mate 20 X is priced at €899 or around $1,040. That makes it significantly more than a Nintendo Switch, and aligned more with the price of higher-end iPhone models.

Samsung Suddenly Exposes Radical New Galaxy Smartphone

As it stated in We know Samsung likes to boast about its upcoming 10th-anniversary Galaxy S10, and with good reason. In a slideshow presentation (above), Samsung pinpoints four key technologies: FoD, HoD, SoD and the most exciting which is UPS. Fingerprint on Display (FoD) - is widely expected on the Galaxy S10 but with a twist. Will Samsung get this technology to market in time for the Galaxy S10? Samsung Smartphone Patent Details In-Display Fingerprint ReaderSamsung Removing Headphone Jack From Galaxy Smartphones?

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