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Once upon a time, Palm was perhaps the nigh well-known maker of mobile devices and "smartphones" in the earth. All the same, changes in the smartphone marketplace left Palm in the dust. The make had a brief resurgence with the Palm Pre, but fifty-fifty that wasn't enough to carve out a space for Palm alongside Apple and Google. The ghost of Palm is about to return with a teeny, tiny phone, and there are a few new images of it.

The last iteration of Palm (the visitor) is long gone, only Chinese smartphone maker TCL acquired the proper noun several years ago. The new photos come courtesy of Android Headlines, which obtained them from an unnamed source. The previous leaks came from a service manual, and then the images were minor and fuzzy. This time, we've got what appear to be full press renders of the phone. The device has the model number PVG100 and is apparently codenamed "Pepito."

Like terminal time, the home screen shown on the correct is probable just a placeholder — there won't be any UI similar that on the phone. The condition bar is new, though, and appears to have a palm tree next to the Wi-Fi point. Over again, foreign and probably just a placeholder.

This phone volition run Android, just the rumors of modes specs could change the mode it works. The clearer image helps you visualize just how tiny the phone will exist. The SIM slot on the side looks gigantic compared with the rest of the telephone. Previous leaks pointed to a minuscule iii.3-inch screen with 720p resolution. There are no physical navigation buttons in the new render, and so a navigation bar could eat up some of that screen. If in that location's a saving grace, 720p should look very good at that size. Android isn't optimized to work on such small displays anymore, and so TCL will demand to practise some work to make things fit. Implementing gesture navigation of some sort could aid.

There's a power button visible on the correct edge of the phone, but that's it. In that location doesn't announced to be a volume rocker at all. It's possible volume could be accessible just in software, simply that would be quite strange even for a budget phone. TCL might count on the PVG100 essentially creating its own market segment for tiny Android phones. If it's inexpensive enough, people might buy information technology as a backup or as something to use occasionally before switching dorsum to a more usable device.

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