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Here's a link to Palm's new product:

http://www.palm.com/us/products/mobi...o_announcement

It's a 10 inch laptop.

Bob

It's an underpowered 10" laptop that needs a bluetooth equipped "smart" phone to sync your email with. Microsoft already tried, and failed with this form factor.

Well, the Foleo should, when WiFi is in range, work without the use of a smartphone.

I hope it's successful. That's not a bad price.

Anyone find more techinical specs for it?

From the webcast...

10" size, 2lb weight/
1024x800 screen, no touchscreen.
WiFi, Bluetooth, solid state (no hard disk), flash memory expansion.

Someone asked what memory could be used to extend memory and the Palm rep with Hawkins (Kelly Kirkpatrick) replied that this information would be announced closer to the launch date - I'd have thought he could have said "SD, CF, MMC etc." but maybe that's still up in the air? Leaving it late...

Not impressed by Hawkins in the video... he seems like someone desperately trying to flog something and make it sound exciting which would have been possible 2 years ago but is now today nothing special and in fact a little embarassing.

Oh dear, if I wanted something this physically large I'd get myself a laptop. This has the potential to bomb quite badly.

Scanning the Palm forums where all the Palm fanboys are watching the same presentation I see the Folio has already been dubbed the "Fooleo" so even they're not digging this. Shame.

Congratulations, you invented the laptop. Color me disappointed. Have fun in bankruptcy court.

Question: "What will video be like, can I watch youtube?"
A (Hawkins): "The processor is a little underpowered, YouTube videos will be a little jerky, we're a bit disappointed about that but we found out about it quite late"

Not. A. Good. Admission.

This is tough... I was ready to order a nokia n800 but waited until this announcement... I have a very capable smartphone currently but decided that I wanted a larger display and more capable browser...

The deciding factor for me was going to be the CPU, what memory cards it supported and the display quality... on first glance the foleo looked exactly like what I wanted but after hearing Hawkins admit to the machine being underpowered for flash video playback I can only assume the processor is not much better than the nokia n800. Also debating if I would prefer a touchscreen and more portability.... so despite being initially drawn in by the foleo I am slowly coming back to the realization that the n800 may be the best device for me.

The biggest draw is the maturity of the internet tablet development community... looking on palm's site I see there are no developer tools available until they are closer to release.

I guess my ideal device would fall somewhere between the two... I wish nokia would release a nokia 880 which would have a more powerful CPU, and a 5" display