Palm Foleo - a new category of device?
May 31st, 2007
Palm’s thunder has been stolen recently by the BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone, but they have come back with an attempted bang. The new Palm Foleo is billed as a smartphone companion, but actually resembles a tiny laptop.
It boasts a full size keyboard, but only has a 10inch screen, which in some ways is a throwback to notebooks of ten years ago.
The Foleo is designed to let users manage and edit their e-mails and other documents by communicating with their smartphones through a wireless Bluetooth connection. However, it has received a lukewarm reception from many critics who say that it adds nothing to an already exiting smartphone sector.
Running the Linux OS, Foleo doesn’t actually have a hard drive, but instead can synchronise with a smartphone via a Bluetooth or wireless connection. In fact, it is getting a slightly warmer reception from the Linux community than from those in the cellphone arena. “This could become the first commercially viable portable Linux system,” said Tim Bajarin, an industry analyst at Creative Strategies.
Palm Foleo will be available in the summer at a suggested price of $599 before an introductory rebate of $100.
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