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I’m aghast at Palm
Foleo arrghhhhhhhh. I can’t help but be curmudgeonly when this sort of craziness is what’s making the news.
- Looks too big to be pocketable.
- Overlaps with laptop usage scenarios.
NO CONNECTIVITY - what are they thinking? Requires a phone = mostly expensive, slow connections.WiFi/Bluetooth/Cellpairing - that’s better.- Another layer of synchronization: Desktop syncs to smartphone. Smartphone syncs to Foleo. Does Foleo also sync to desktop? This cannot play out nicely.
- Overlaps with UMPC but with 1/100th the functionality.
- EXPENSIVE: $500 for an adjunct screen and keyboard for your smartphone.
- Overlap with web email and document editing tools.
- A nice big screen that can’t play movies. AWESOME.
BOTTOM LINE: There’s a vanishingly small niche of people that would find this compelling and affordable. Lame, lame, lame.
PROGNOSTICATION: Palm to struggle, cheap acquisition bait for also-lame Motorola.
BLOGOSPHERE GESTALT: Gizmodo, Business2, Webware, and others agree: this is disappointing and ill-conceived.
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I’m in agreement with you regarding their newest contraption. Useless and impractical. I carry my PDA so I can have everyhthing in my jacket pocket and not need to carry anything else. Palm: Why not just travel with my ultra-thin laptop? Yes, slightly bigger, but a lot more power.
It seems that Palm, like the other PDA developers are sitting by idly while Apple roles out the iPhone. Hurah for innovation in the world of those that have already seen the future but decide to ignore it.
Aagha - Agreed. Even HTC and their ilk are just doing minor iterations to established and often tired designs, while Apple, as usual, is leapfrogging the industry.