Comments on: Palm Foleo specs revealed

By: Mathias

Mathias — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:53:08 +0000

I also wanted to have an Foleo, but I can’t imagine that it is what I wanted seeing the specs . I’m waiting for the Asus Eee PC: It has mail client, Skype, kopete and Firefox running and a VGA out (for presentations) … see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC

By: joelee

joelee — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:33:59 +0000

Tab browsing would require A LOT of ram to keep other pages in their respective tabs! You would not keep too many tabs open tho probably 4-5. This is doable for sure, they better have it.

By: dusanb

dusanb — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:35:49 +0000

I agree – Opera on desktops has tabbed browsing. But there were not a word about tabbed browsing in Foleo’s announcement. Also, Nokia N800 also comes with Opera and lacks tabbed browsing.

By: Michlt

Michlt — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:20:52 +0000

I’m confused by your comment about tabbed browsing. Palm has announced that the loaded browser will be Opera. Opera was the first browser to come out with tabbed browsing – before Firefox, IE, or Safari. So why do you think there will be no tabs on the Foleo? The linux version of Opera has had tabs for many years now.

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:33:23 +0000

I haven’t anticipated something since my love affair with the HP-48g and later the TI-89. ‘Comparisons’ of various devices reveal a weakness of the intellect, when you think about it, every computer represents — what? — 200 million man-hours of engineering and an enormous history. And here we are giving ‘ratings’ to these devices, which are all far too technologically powerful and complicated for us to grasp, rather than thinking through their possibilities. How you treat technology is up to you — you can either live in the ignorance of obsessing over the color of the case, or you can allow certain things to get under your skin — how this sophisticated and readily retreivable memory system, always available, readily restructurable, moleskine on steroids, can change the way one behaves. Me, I plan on using the terminal and maybe emacs or something

By: Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:36:55 +0000

They actually aren’t similar at all. The Nokia N800 has the same processor as the N95, the TI OMAP 2420; 333 MHz.

By: Mark Murphy

Mark Murphy — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:44:10 +0000

Note that those specs are similar to the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, except the Foleo has the keyboard and USB host port (for mouse, external drive, etc.). It still seems a bit pricey, though.