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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
Good point. I picture the Foleo as approaching a Franklin Planner plus browser plus integration with smart phone. I think they probably found that executives were more likely to be interested in an email device than a "large PDA", so they seem to be steering away from that sort of comparison.
Personally, I see programs already to control your smart phone from a desktop computer. If smart phone applications (PalmOS or WinMobile) started to support larger screen sizes, then already the Foleo would be an amazing device. Especially as smart phones move past ARM processors to x86 architectures as early as next year. That's a direction I could get really excited about, with such a great form factor for the Foleo. No syncing, just use the smart phone apps either directly or through the Foleo. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the direction of Palm, partly because they can't control WinMobile, I suppose, and because it would be too easy to copy.
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Since the phone is the physical link to the net it would be logical to see a very good integration between the two devices. It is clever of you to expect using the phone's apps from the Foleo but will they do it? That alone would be a good justification to acquire this combo.