Pro Foleo

Ben Combee is a Palm software engineer and is quite active on the Internet. Combee recently responded to the criticism that Palm should have figured out Treo compatiblity problems by now.

"We’re not stupid; we’ve been working on lots of complicated sync issues on lots of phones for the last year, including testing with a wide range of Treo devices. The issues haven’t been 'it doesn’t sync', but more like 'after syncing large numbers of emails over a four day time period, the operation fails 25% of the time and cannot restart without resetting the device.'"

Combee certainly puts my mind at ease here. Palm is not desperately trying to get core functionality going at the last minute. They're simply trying to make sure that the Foleo's software is stable in real-world use. (I wish more companies did that.)

Speaking of Combee, you really have to check out this video from LinuxWorld, where Combee gives a hands-on introduction to the device. The Foleo looks to be very snappy in use. Looks like the software is very efficient.