The Palm brand is being brought back from the dead. TCL, a TV company from China, has announced it will return Palm to the tech industry as a subsidiary in the United States. If the return of the Palm brand means new Palm smartphones, they won't be anything let the old Palm devices.

Since the company was dismantled, its patents have been sold off and its webOS platform has been taken by LG for use in televisions. Whatever Palm comes out with, it definitely won't be similar to the devices everyone is familiar with from the early 2000s.

TCL has not mentioned when it may begin to launch devices under the Palm brand in the US.