http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/ Engadget Comments for Palm creating palmtop computer with detachable, dockable cellphone? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/I don't care what it looks like. I'm just glad palm is still alive and kicking. This seems a bit odd, though. I dont like the idea of having to buy a phone AND a palmtop to get maximum functionality.]]>Aug 12th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Too many companies trying to do too much with their offerings. Narrow the scope/purpose of your device, and execute well on those functions.]]>Aug 12th 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/for the record, i wasn't calling the OP stupid :-)]]>Aug 12th 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/I would have to say I think that is simple.

Its simple, I have a netbook and a smartphone... how do they work together? Email!!!

See also ancient history (Hotsync) where the computer and smartphone worked together.

If I can use my smartphone for a dataplan on my netbook (like Palm is already doing at no upcharge on verizon) AND have all of my data and programs on a netbook/smartbook device along with a SIMPLE "phone" device... I think that would Simply make sense for on the go business people.

Simple is not iOS, no keyboard, no multitasking (until OS 4 came out), no bells and lots of whistles. Simple doesn't mean dumbed down it means it simply works for people and takes a lot of the "manual labor" out of using technology today. Simple is things like Palm Synergy, yeah it has some kinks in it, but it makes things simple. My Exchange, Gmail and Facebook contacts are all one and merged with automation. That's simple.

If I could simply move from smartphone to deskop/laptop that WOULD be simply the future]]>Aug 12th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/
This has Foleo written all over it......but perhaps Oelof to try make people think different about it.]]>Aug 12th 2010 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/
@MrKal_El]]>Aug 12th 2010 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/
Srsly, I wanted to adore the Pre Plus, but its keyboard is terrible. And then the Pixi's keyboard is amazing, but the thing is so god-awful slow and the screen is just barely too small and low-res to be usable.]]>Aug 12th 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/
about as good as colonel Klink's spoken german accent.]]>Aug 12th 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/
YeeOuch!]]>Aug 12th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/
Think of this as a netbook with a USB wireless modem stick but somebody grafted a cheap nokia phone to the the modem. I'd buy that.]]>Aug 12th 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/
Indeed... How is this not a 7" 3G tablet with a bluetooth headset? How is it better? I can think of how it's worse.]]>Aug 12th 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/among all the rubbish i wrote on my blog, there's one line is said in 2007 when talking about a small laptop: "what if in the future it will have a detachable part, which is going to be your mobile and spare battery for the laptop. For the price of a mobile, you’ll get a mobile and a small stylish laptop perhaps subsidised by the operator…"
http://www.reda-ek.com/2007/11/16/unbelievably-cheap-asus-eee-pc-4g-701
]]>Aug 12th 2010 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Important requirement: both phone and tablet need to be top of the line otherwise one will drag down the other. ]]>Aug 12th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/
or a multi-touch trackpad.]]>Aug 20th 2010 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Why detachable? why not just sold separately? why not just use a third party one? why not just buy a smaller phone? ]]>Aug 12th 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/
that would be reasonable, and who wants that?]]>Aug 12th 2010 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Q:Why detachable?
A: Because wearing bluetooth headset all the time is stupid, and tiring. And because I'd like to have fewer pieces in my pockets.

Q:why not just sold separately?
A: I'm ok if it's sold separately, as long as it "merges" into the device

Q: why not just use a third party one?
A: I'm ok if it's sold separately by 3rd party, as long as it "merges" into the device

Q: why not just buy a smaller phone?
A: Because I personally use phone infrequently (3-5 times a month), would use browsing/gps map/games way more frequently, therefore screen size matters.

Any more questions?]]>Aug 12th 2010 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 12th 2010 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/palm-creating-palmtop-computer-with-detachable-dockable-cellpho/Aug 13th 2010 9:30PM