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I would have ordered one. If they'd included the option to download email directly over wifi – without smartphone – I would have ordered three.

If anybody knows another device that lets you edit docs comfortably, doesn't get hot on your lap, has wifi, decent battery-life and instant-on, I'm interested.

I wonder what Palm will do with the Foleo hardware already made. Dump in the desert? Or sell them for $100 on Woot?

something tells me the same hardware will be back, but with the unified software stack.

as for flash videos, people here on this forum should know why flash is a pain in the *** to play. using uktube and mplayer it plays fine even on a 770, but in the browser? forget it.

so its not like the hardware cant handle it, its that the way flash work, as a plugin within the browser, makes it unable to access the hardware effectively. but then flash have always been a ineffective design. i have seen it crawl on high powered desktop computers! the day we can all dump flash for something thats native to all browsers, is the day im doing a naked happy dance!

all in all i think they are aiming for developer mindshare here. given that they recently started talking about a linux based os developed in house with legacy app support/emulation, it would be strange to use a third party os on the foleo, like they where planing.

so im guessing that the foleo isnt as much canceled as on ice.

And only a week or two ago I received an email from Palm Developers about the exciting new development possibilities with the Foleo.. oh well. After the initial frawn I actually started to like the concept, I think it made sense. It'll be interesting to see what (if anything) comes out in the future.

My own thoughts are currently on top of http://planet.maemo.org/ :-)

Answer is here
http://unwiredben.livejournal.com/25...331109#t331109
There is almost no hardware to dump :-(

The market is constantly moving. If they try to reuse the exact same hardware next year, it will not be competitive. But of course, they have more important issues to sort out, like the UI and OS.

yep, they may scale up the cpu and ram, but i dont think they will go for say X86 or anything like that.

palm knows ARM, same as nokia (as i suspect thats why the 770 and N800 went ARM, simpler access to parts).

and if they can get apps to run on multiple devices without a recompile thats good for both user and corp. hell, one may use the foleo as a kind of dev platform for treo apps...