Quick Post: Palm Foleo Axed

I am traveling this week and hence my posts will be short and sweet.

Palm finally announced that they will no longer be shipping the ~~foolio~~ Foleo. The hideous looking device, which was supposed to be a PDA companion was announced at the D5 conference earlier this year.

This announcement never quite made sense to me as the Foleo looked very close to a thin laptop but with reduced functionality. So if one wants to carry a device of such form factor, they might as well carry their laptops. I can speak from experience as I am some what of a road warrior.

The interesting part in all of this is that this device never shipped. Quite rarely it happens that a device is announced publicly but gets canceled before shipping. Anyways I am glad Palm decided to focus solely on the smartphone platform. Although the CEO Ed Colligan does mention something about Foleo II, which they will continue to explore.

Here is a video of Jeff Hawkins announcing the Foleo at D5.

GigaOm has a detailed analysis, check it out.

September 5th, 2007 in Mobile