Palm Foleo smartphone companion announced - What?
31 May 2007 | Palm , Smartphone | 2 comments
Jeff Hawkins, the founder of Palm has unveiled today at the D conference a new product called Foleo. It may look like a laptop, but Palm is calling it something else: a smartphone companion. We're still not sure how this thing is useful, but we'll tell you the features so you could figure it out.
The Foleo will contain a nice little 10-inch display, a full-size keyboard, battery life of about 5 hours, Bluetooth and it will supposedly turn on instantly. Most importantly, it will wirelessly connect with your Treo smartphone to increase productivity. Any changes made on the Foleo (like editing e-mail or other documents) will automatically be updated on the smartphone as well, and vice versa.
Well my first thoughts are that the Foleo - even though it's light-weight and really sleek - is still too big to carry around everywhere you go. It's understandable that people need more screen space and a decent keyboard to write their emails on, but is this really the answer? What do you guys think?
Update: I just saw the price. At $500 this thing has no chance. If you're still interested - and I doubt it, unless you're a Palm fanboy -I suggest to wait a few months untill they lower the price to a couple of hundred bucks.
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It looks light-weight and really nice, but the features still don't justify the $500 price point. I for one would really be interested, but that price just makes the iPhone sound like a better option.
why didn't they do the software equivalent to the foleo and let people sync their treos on their own laptops? Why make a totally different hardware?