[camelNotation]

Not only is it Verizon exclusive (or was, up until recently), it is not considered a primary phone, so you have to have a separate, regular phone on a normal line just to use it.

[dangus]

That’s actually a weird quirk of this phone, even the Verizon one is not locked. The SIM card slot is still there but they make it weird to eject, too.

You can use it with any old SIM but you’ll want to adb uninstall Verizon apps.

I think they wanted the Verizon exclusivity money but know that the tinkerer type is more of their market.

I did try this phone for a while and it was far too much of a toy. Even for the intended purpose the battery life isn’t enough to take away dead phone anxiety.

The screen was sharp and surprisingly readable. Text was very, very hard to input.

It’d truly be a good device if it was literally the size of the iPhone 4 instead of something smaller.

At the time I couldn’t find any sort of convenient way to root the phone.

[gregoryl]

This might have changed recently as well; from the marketing copy:

   Unlocked Palm is a standalone device that works as a normal phone with supported carriers.

   However, Palm is also enjoyed by many users as a secondary device.

[jachee]

Please don't use code blocks for quoting. (Unless you also hard-wrap the quote at ~50 columns. The blocks themselves don't wrap long lines but rather are horizontal-scrolling, cut off, and annoying.)

[nobodyshere]

Wrong on both accounts. It is a stand-alone phone now.