Foleo delayed until October?
August 23rd, 2007
The buzz in the blogosphere is that the Foleo will be delayed until late September or possibly early October. Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg dropped a note to Barron's Tech Trader Daily saying that his contacts tell him that the Foleo will be delayed a little longer due to software problems that need to be worked out.
"In a round of checks yesterday we learned that the Palm Foleo will be delayed. The product was supposed to hit Palm stores this week, but was delayed when software bugs were detected. These apparently included an inability to synchronize the Foleo with most models of the Treo, in particular the nominally high-volume Treo 680. Our contacts indicate Palm now expects the device will ship in late September/early October."
Disappointing news for those hoping to get their hands on a Foleo as soon as possible, but a late product with working software is better than an on-time delivery with massive glitches.
You do have to wonder what's up over at Palm, though. Given the whole "smartphone companion" angle, shouldn't Treo compatibility have been figured out a long time ago?
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:02 am
I can understand software problems with some new 3rd party app, but Treo synch should have worked much earlier. Has Palm confirmed this as the reason for the delay?
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:12 am
It’s only the 680 that has the problem, and it’s a minor bug at that. Should be fixed pretty quickly.
But yeah, they should’ve found it a long time ago.
August 23rd, 2007 at 5:25 am
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