I think its major weak point was the fact it had to be tethered to a Palm phone. This should have been a cool bonus rather than a requirement.
If it was made as a stand alone laptop with office apps, schedule/calendar, browser and mail apps then it would have made an awesome portable for all the traveling business types. It would be cheap and secure, two things corporations love. Secondary market could have been all those people that don't need a full blown laptop.
Oh well I guess they still have the ability to redesign it and bring it out to market without that tethering restriction.
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xbit @ Sep 4th 2007 5:15PM
Holy crap! That's pretty late in the development cycle to cancel a product!
Good move though. Not sure if it'll save Palm, but it's still a good move.
Now how about hiring someone decent to redesign the aesthetics of Gandolf?
nih @ Sep 4th 2007 5:55PM
The Foleo had no class and the community called it. I'm glad Palm listened.
dj-kenpo @ Sep 4th 2007 6:14PM
nih, people also said the Wii was a stupid idea before trying it.... "a remote?? like a tv? that's stupidz!".
this might be "good on palm" or really bad on them for not even finding OUT if people like it. in the end you DON'T know until you try something.
Carlos @ Sep 4th 2007 9:03PM
Thats very late in development to kill the Foleo.
I think its major weak point was the fact it had to be tethered to a Palm phone. This should have been a cool bonus rather than a requirement.
If it was made as a stand alone laptop with office apps, schedule/calendar, browser and mail apps then it would have made an awesome portable for all the traveling business types. It would be cheap and secure, two things corporations love. Secondary market could have been all those people that don't need a full blown laptop.
Oh well I guess they still have the ability to redesign it and bring it out to market without that tethering restriction.