Idea: Palm should push Foleo as a blogging tool!
By Dusan Belic on Saturday, August 4th, 2007 at 6:11 AM PST In Devices, Linux, Palm
Just a few days ago I wrote about 4 things I would like to see in Palm Foleo. Then an idea popped to my mind – Palm (NSDQ: PALM) should push Foleo to bloggers!
Nowadays, most of us have or can afford a laptop. However, even though I have a small laptop I would want an even smaller one without paying a hefty premium (who wouldn’t). In that sense, Palm’s “mobile companion” should fit nicely for blogging purposes only.
Basically, I think that most bloggers need some simple app for managing images (resize, crop and such things), and a browser with full AJAX support and tabbed browsing. When I write something, usually there are at least 3 tabs opened in a browser. If Palm could deliver this, I would be happy to jump on board.
The processor speed and available RAM is what matters the most. We don’t want to go back to old hardware, rather we need a dedicated blogging computer which could run on a slower processor, but is much lighter thus easier to carry around. And then… I can easily imagine Palm partnering with Six Apart, WordPress and possibly even Blogger. What a great marketing channel that would be for Palm. Damn with the corporate users — we are the ones which want more freedom! 
Could Palm actually make this happen? What do you think?
Imo, it makes more sense to simply get BT keyboard and blog from my smartphone, rather than spending 500$ on the foleo.
And if you’re in the mood to rake out $$, 600$ will get you a nice dell with 1gb ram and a core2duo processor. Why would you waste money on a foleo?
The foleo is a joke and will bomb just as magnificently as the “lifedrive” did for palm. What’s sad is someone at Palm thinks this is a good idea…. it should have never left the drawing board.
Stick another nail in their coffin….
It’s good for touch-typing intellectuals, along the line of the alphasmart dana — which unfortuneatly has bad internet access. I do blog a lot (it gives me more motivation to write when I think someone may be listening — even though noone really is) — and this is pretty much why I’m getting the foleo. The only thing I do on my laptop these days, is type and look at porn. I do wish that the foleo would have higher porn capabilities, but maybe that’s a good thing.
Palm has already announced that they are working with SixApart on blogging tools for the Foleo: http://investor.palm.com/pressdetail.cfm?ReleaseID=255945
The comparison of the Foleo to $600 Dell laptops is so tiresome to me. It’s a huge value that the Foleo weighs 2.5 lbs instead of 6 lbs, that it is instant-on like a PDA, that it is totally solid state (no delicate hard drive), and that despite it’s light weight it delivers 5 hours of continuous operation while connected to the network. You can get *some* of those advantages by buying a $2-$3,000 ultra-light laptop today, but certainly not for $500-600. The trade-offs will be just right for a LOT of mobile users (myself included).