I just have one question
October 4th, 2007
Who the heck is Torturous Trevor the Technoholic, and how did he get himself a Foleo?
Okay, so that was two questions.
In other news, the ship continues to sink. Palm has confirmed earlier reports that it will be a long, long time before Palm OS II arrives.
Oh, and reader David S. points out that Culligan would like to someday, maybe, perhaps, possibly build a Foleo-type device, albeit possibly, maybe, perhaps in another form-factor. Link.
Gulp.
October 4th, 2007 at 8:46 am
I was going to track him down and break into his house, but Torturous Trevor the Technoholic didn’t seem to be in the Yellow Pages…
October 4th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Well, he got the “Torturous” part correct! Were the heck did he get the Foleo? In talking with those who obtained units under NDA as part of the developer kit, they had to send their test units back to Palm last month.
October 4th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
LETTER TO PALM
4 oct 2007-10-04
Sorry for my broken english I am a francophone.
I am a long time Palm user. I own now a Treo 680 bulky but smart. However, I rage daily about the absence of a dictaphone and WIFI access…
10 years ago I wrote a letter to the Psion CEO, and I predicted him their fall as they had not sought about including telephone and internet access and an easy and smooth communicating software to PC and Mac ( it was tortuous to make a simple transfer). The Psion was great but belonging to a typing machine mentality.. they vanished 6 months later…The Psion PDA were very smart but missing the essential : the IMMEDIACY OF COMMUNICATION. PSION closed its line for ever.
I am afraid to be the Palm Cassandra: Palm is missing the target. Contrary to your opinion the Foleo would have been a very nice idea if doted of WIFI !!!!. Being a theatre director I do not need a simple machine to consumme datas but to create and transmit them. I dearly wish and look for an IMMEDIATE ACCESS COMMUNICATING MACHINE . My smart Treo is aging rapidly and endlessly… Are you listening Palm ?
The NEW GENERATION of students, the business people, artists and designers and corporate members persons - want a FREE IMMEDIATE DEBUGGED access to the INTERNET via WIFI… with a universal access for any SIM card in the world !!! Plus a dictaphone and a smooth and elegant tool.
APPLE understood it fast and brillantly ( not sacrifying profit…)
I confess I am a Mac addicted and I try as much as possible to avoid the tortuous and freezing Window declination. Palm is still trapped with a tragic corporate attitude. Does Palm comited itself and sold itself to the greedy telephone companies to skipe WIFI from its machine… ( so not getting royalties…) like the brand new Centro ?
Poor Palm CEO you missed the boat of immediacy and free access … You are not feeling the rapid, drastic changes of the world !
By willing to make profit ( this is the only stupid reasonabale argument) Palm has not yet digested the necessity of an OPEN , SMART and FULL FURNISHED MACHINE doing ALL and WELL.
As a result, I hesitate between a Nokia E90 or a an Iphone and, to my sorrow, I said saddly : Good Bye PALM - you served me almost well but have missed the momentum… Stop looking at short term profit and question with creative people the long term perspective consummers and creators needs…
The Foleo might have been what I was looking for…
So Palm again you missed me!
SO.
October 5th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Please, Palm, don’t change the form-factor. I loved it just the way it was.
Well, maybe longer battery life…
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:09 pm
heyy dont know if anyone still reads this, but have a look at this, it could be really cool if done well
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/i_mate-shell/i+mate-creating-palm-foleo+like-umpc-with-i+mate-shell-314105.php
November 15th, 2007 at 12:11 am
Any updates?