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In the Fast Company magazine, an interesting article was published last autumn just before the launch of Palm, revealing much about the new Palm - company, and the new Palm - device.

The vision, in its initial incarnation, was hyperminimalist. “We stripped it down to nothing,” explains Nuk. “We took the cameras off, no buttons, no anything. [We thought] it should just be a black pebble, and magically light up and respond to your voice. From there, we started to put the features back in that we believed were absolutely critical.” When that process concluded, their device did look more like a smartphone again, and could perform every major smartphone task except replacing a credit card for in-person payments. (Don’t call it a smartphone around them, though: “We never call it a phone—it’s something new,” Nuk stresses.) But it was tiny, with a touch screen measuring only 3.3 inches from corner to corner—Lilliputian in an era when smartphone displays routinely sprawl to 5.8 inches and beyond. And it had just one button, to turn the screen on and off; even the volume buttons went away in favor of on-screen controls.

It is long, but I strongly recommend to read it.

Looking at the new Palm maybe you’re wondering what the new Palm is the device. It looks like a mini phone that is just small like a smartwatch, but it’s not perhaps the phone that would be the primary phone.

Palm itself offers this small comparison of Palm and smartwatches:

Palm is often referred to as an accessory or companion to your primary cellphone, because Verizon does not only provide it, but it can also combine both phones under one number, and it doesn’t matter which phone you are currently using.

But some say it is a brand new product - a necklace phone.

It’s a small phone that, thanks to its original leather case and drawstring, can be comfortably worn around your neck without having to feel its 62.5 grams of weight seriously.