Palm is introducing a tiny smartphone for when you're sick of your real smartphone

Looking to spend less time on your phone? Palm has the solution: Get a second one.

Beginning next month, Palm will sell Verizon users a new tiny smartphone that's intended to be used in addition to your regular-sized smartphone, per The Verge. The idea is that when you want to disconnect from your primary smartphone with all its distractions, you can take this minimalist device with you in its place. In fact, the Palm can't even be purchased as a standalone phone; it's only available as an add-on. Users connect the Palm to their main phone so that both devices use the same number, and you can receive texts and calls on both. "Do you really need to bring a supercomputer everywhere you go?" co-creator of the device Dennis Miloseski told Variety.

It's not like the Palm is a cheap "dumb" phone, though. It retails for $350 and runs Android 8.1, meaning you can download a fair number of apps on it. The device is also available for iPhone users, but you can't download any Apple-exclusive apps, CNET reports.

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The Palm is only 3.3 inches tall, about the size of a credit card, and it weighs just 2.2 ounces. That's less than half of what your apparently super cumbersome iPhone weighs.