Oh Palm, Palm, Palm… After all the hype and the hope that you were about to dazzle us with something spectacular, instead you give us the Foleo. Billed as a ’smartphone companion’, the 1.15Kg Foleo is basically a $500 (£250) keyboard and 10″ screen that automatically synchs with your Palm Treo over Bluetooth. You can read and edit emails and attachments on the Foleo with changes simultaneously made on the Palm, and also browse the web either via the phone’s data connection or wi-fi. The Foleo also has ‘instant on/ off’, which triggers the moment you open or shut the lid.
We’ve seen this kind of thing before in the shape of Psion’s cult Series 7 and great machine though that was… You were left wishing you had a laptop instead. When you think that a base MacBook (2Ghz Core2Duo, 13″ screen, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD and able to run both XP and Mac OS) is $1099 (£550) in the States, the Foleo’s pointlessness is thrown into really sharp relief.
For more on the Foleo head over to Palm’s site by clicking here.
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