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Archive for May, 2007

Thoughts on the Foleo

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Palm Foleo Mobile Companion

A few years ago, I bought a second hand Psion Series 7. I loved the Psion Series 7. It was a notebook replacement, small and light. It had an excellent keyboard, a large touchscreen, good battery life, and good expansion capability (CF card and a PCMCIA card). Of course, since this was a few years ago, it lacked some of the technologies we take for granted now, such as Bluetooth, WiFi and USB. The Series 7 functioned exactly like a Foleo: (more…)

Introducing the Palm Foleo

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Is it a smartphone? Is it a PDA? Well, as it turns out, it’s neither. The details are not out yet, but here’s some information derived from the Palm blog RSS feed. The new product from Palm will be called Palm Foleo. It’s a UMPC-like device and the device category is a “smartphone companion”.

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Palm to announce new mobile device today!

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Hot off the press — Palm will announce a new product at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California today (May 30th 2007). Palm founder (creator of the Palm Pilot PDA and Treo Smartphone) Jeff Hawkins is set to host a live video webcast today (Wednesday May 30) to describe the new category of mobile device.

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Happy Birthday, PalmAddicts!

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

If you’re interested in everything Palm, then Palm Addicts is the place to visit.  Sammual McLoughlin and his gang of Palm fans have been updating the website several times a day, for 8 years now.  Happy Birthday, Palm Addicts — may there be many more years to come.