In a totally unexpected move, Palm CEO Ed Colligan has announced that they are shelving the Palm Foleo Mobile Companion! Colligan says that “the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform design and a single focus for our platform development efforts.”

Palm will instead focus on the next generation platform (the Unix-based OS) and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market. The Foleo was announced with great fanfare by Palm just a few months ago, and the new device was widely panned by almost all parties. Yes, we tried to like it because of Palm, but honestly the Foleo is just not innovative enough.

Wow, that’s a brave move by Palm. After all, the Foleo was the big “third line of business” introduced by Jeff Hawkins. They swallowed their pride and are moving on. Hopefully this means that we will see new smartphones very soon.

Colligan says that eventually they’ll release a different version of the Foleo, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Give us awesome smartphones, Palm — that’s all we ask for.

,

Filed under: Foleo

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!