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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
Dennis:
Sounds like you might one of the fifteen people who would actually buy a Palm Foleo.
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Nope.
I was one of the folks that thought Palm should never have invested the time and money to produce it, and thought that killing it was the right thing to do.
Palm wore Treo blinders, and designed and positioned the Foleo as a companion product to the Treo, only really useful if you had a Treo.
Silly of them. Folks who have Treos who could use something like this probably have a laptop. If they have a laptop, why would they buy a Foleo? It can't replace a laptop, and they sure as hell won't carry
both when they travel.
They needed a device that could be useful if you
didn't have a Treo.
If Palm had produced a device in the Foleo form factor, with Linux under the hood ala the ASUS eee, and which oh, by the way, integrated seamlessly with a Treo if you had one, I'd have bought one in a heartbeat. I like the ASUS eee, but I'd like a device like that with a larger screen and keyboard even more.
Palm had made noises about possibly revisiting the Foleo once they get their Linux based upgrade to Palm OS done, and could run the same OS on both platforms. A device like the Foleo running the same OS as the Palm handhelds has a lot of potential. We'll see if they are bright enough to do it.
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Dennis