Palm has just raised the bar
By Stefan Constantinescu on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 1:46 PM PST In Ideas and rants
I hope their European competitors are watching closely.
I can’t wait to come home from work and watch the archived webcast.
Edit: I find it funny this device reflects, word for word, the usage model I proposed here, here and here.
Eh? ‘Raised the bar’? The Foleo is a dumb idea and I can’t believe Jeff H is behind it. So people are going to have to buy a smartphone AND a Foleo in order to function properly? Well, that’s $1000 spent. I’d rather have a Nokia E90……
grr…..
Steve
We should do a debate on this Steve, similar to your recent N95 vs E90 post.
Palm fanboys are already calling it the “Fooleo”.
Spec: 10″ screen, 2lb device, 1024×800 non-touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth, solid state (no hard disk), flash memory expansion.
Wow, I might as well buy myself a cheap laptop.
The Foleo has the potential to bomb very badly. It might have been something good 2 or 3 years ago but today it’s a disaster of a product – what are these clowns at Palm thinking? If the Foleo had the N800 Internet Tablet form factor it could have been a very interesting concept but without a touchscreen and at 10 inches and 2lb in weight, forget it!
See you in Chapter 11 guys…
As the owner of more than ten Palm devices, I have to disagree Stefan. Palm didn’t raise the bar. They ran, jumped and hit their forehead on the bar then fell. This is a total yawner from my perspective.
Eh? Raised the bar? How exactly? What’s so great about this device? Come on, it’s 2007, not 2000.
I can see where a device like this would be useful, however not at a $500 price point, for $199, I can honestly say that I would probably get one. Most laptops are definitely more than 2 lbs so it is certainly lighter. Something like this would be great simply because it offers pretty much all the same functions as a standard business laptop (office and internet support), while losing the large weight, low battery life, long boot times (when not in standby), and heat output. Obviously this wont be marketed to everyone, but if made cheap enough I can see this being a decent addon for business professionals who live on their smartphones.
The idea is great but the execution by Palm isn’t all that…
My 10.6″ screen laptop is only $200 more, a tad heavier, and it can be a smartphone companion as well as have total functionality by itself. (Only downside is it’s not instant on.)
The N800 form factor (with qwerty) would have been much better. I can stuff it in my purse. I’ll need a laptop bag for this Foleo thing.
But yeah, if it were $200 I would probably take it for a spin. Sometimes what looks a certain way on paper may be different in practice.
I think everyone is trying to find that sweet spot (in terms of size and price and features) between smartphones/PDAs and laptops. There may be a few (such spots), and N800 found one of them, but Foleo, imho, missed…
Dude, it’s just a Psion 7 updated. That flopped, so will this. It’s twice as expensive and half as exciting as it should be.
Didnt really make me drool either! I agree with Steve completely! N i like the Feeoleo part too!
Didnt really make me drool either! I agree with Steve completely! N i like the Fooleo part too!
thank