Thread: Palm Foleo
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
O yes they had.
I've just checked and o no they hadn't. When it comes to keyboards, there's no such thing as "nearly" full-sized. The trouble is, having watched the video of Jeff Hawkins demoing the Foleo, I'm beginning to suspect that it doesn't have a full-sized keyboard either. That would be a huge disappointment, if true.

If you can't touch-type on the blasted thing, then those legions of idiots pontificating about how lame and pointless the Foleo is might not be so idiotic after all.

On the face of it, you'd have thought that a portable (i.e. light) device with, as a minimum,

(a) wireless connectivity

(b) no hard disk but adequate flash memory

(c) a modern, CSS-compliant browser, with Flash and Java support

(d) a real, solid, touch-typable, non-folding keyboard, and

(e) a good quality screen of a size appropriate to that keyboard

would be such a no brainer that at least half-a-dozen models would be readily available. I'm still looking.