Is Palm getting desperate or what?
Today they released a Treo companion called the Foleo.
It weighs as much as the TX series of the Sony Vaio’s, but has a smaller screen and does a whole lot less.
In fact, just about the only only thing it can do is sync email and surf the web-it won’t even sync your calander appointments.
Palm founder Jeff Hawkins said that,
“Palm will initially target heavy users of wireless e-mail who are looking for a portable device to ease the burden of relying on a smart phone as a primary computing device.”
No offense Jeff, but the last time I checked, that was called a laptop.
Palm still has yet to come up with their own truly innovative product this century, even the highly-successful Treo was invented by Handspring and later bought by Palm.
Here’s hoping that Palm’s new Linux-based OS that will be unveiled later will not be such a huge dissapointment as well.
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simply put, it’s just a bigger screen for your palm. and at 499 AR, you’re better off getting a laptop that can do more, and if you want a bigger screen, there is a cool program called Handshare, by a company called TapSmart – it will bring up your connected palm screen on the computer via BT or USB. don’t waste your money, right Dan?
Ha I was gonna say the same thing, its a 500 dollar 10inch screen that has a 5 hour battery life lol.
well i watched the live webcast and he sed this is not soemthing evry one shuld buy its for peaple who get maeny emails a day and want it on a big screen and im shure thay thout over theas things maeny time b4 thay release it and he sed jeff that like in 5 years it will have more models that you will want to buy couse it will be more like a laptop kind of so again he sed this is not for all kindes of peapl to buy it
dan, this is part of a new wave of portable devices that are smaller and more lightweight than laptops but can do more than PDA’s.
read about it here:
http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070517/this-time-samsung-has-made-a-tiny-pc-thats-practical-to-use/
that site is has a lot of great tech reviews.