I was sure I read / heard 2 days in an Engadget news piece but now they are saying 5 hours too. There goes another reason to have a Foleo. They've really got this thing wrong.
Now, I'm totally confused. When I wrote that last post, I could only find the 2 days bit.
But, saying that you can use it for a weekend doesn't mean that it will run for an entire weekend.
Call me a fanboy, but Foleo is a visionary product much the same way Palm Pilots were back in the day. No one understood it, everyone thought it was stupid, but years later, you see people having one using one and loving it.
Foleo has the same things that Palm Pilots had going in the beginning... simplicity of design, simplicity of use, and third party support... Foleo's main strength is its being linux... dont be surprised to see that 10 years from now, you'll see as much apps for Foleo as you see for Palms today.
Foleo is more of a potentially important product... Hawkins vision is a smartphone centric world, where you do everything with the smartphone... but limited by its small keyboard and/or screen... thus he makes this extender for the smartphone (yes he sees it supporting th iPhone as well) which can also serve as a standalone Linux laptop just enough for your everyday mobile computing needs...
To quote Hawkins: "The further out you are, the more people have trouble understanding. It's hard to go back in time, but when we did the Pilot, there were a lot of people that thought that was a stupid idea. I mean a lot."
Call me a fanboy, but Foleo is a visionary product much the same way Palm Pilots were back in the day. No one understood it, everyone thought it was stupid, but years later, you see people having one using one and loving it.
Foleo has the same things that Palm Pilots had going in the beginning... simplicity of design, simplicity of use, and third party support... Foleo's main strength is its being linux... dont be surprised to see that 10 years from now, you'll see as much apps for Foleo as you see for Palms today.
Foleo is more of a potentially important product... Hawkins vision is a smartphone centric world, where you do everything with the smartphone... but limited by its small keyboard and/or screen... thus he makes this extender for the smartphone (yes he sees it supporting th iPhone as well) which can also serve as a standalone Linux laptop just enough for your everyday mobile computing needs...
To quote Hawkins: "The further out you are, the more people have trouble understanding. It's hard to go back in time, but when we did the Pilot, there were a lot of people that thought that was a stupid idea. I mean a lot."
Call me a fanboy, but Foleo is a visionary product much the same way Palm Pilots were back in the day. No one understood it, everyone thought it was stupid, but years later, you see people having one using one and loving it.
But nobody uses Palm Pilots anymore, they use smartphones, and this isn't a visionary product, it's a poor copy of the Psion NetBook.
With the forthcoming iPhone, the Foleo gives a bigger display without the ability to make phonecalls or stream video. If people are complaining about the price of the iPhone, what are they going to say about the Foleo? Seems to me that the Foleo's target group would be better off buying the iPhone and spending $5.00 at the local Walgreens for a pair of magnifying eyeglasses and $30.00 on a bluetooth keyboard.
Hawkins was a visionary 20 years ago when he took a block of wood and copied the concept of the Newton to create a PDA market. Unfortunately, the PDA market is completely dead and now he is grasping at straws to figure out how to cash out his shares http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070530/palm_...ions.html?.v=1
Even Palm fanatics have christened this product the Fool-eo.
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I was sure I read / heard 2 days in an Engadget news piece but now they are saying 5 hours too. There goes another reason to have a Foleo. They've really got this thing wrong.
Now, I'm totally confused. When I wrote that last post, I could only find the 2 days bit.
But, saying that you can use it for a weekend doesn't mean that it will run for an entire weekend.
So, it can do limited web browsing and send/receive e-mails.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32261/128/
Foleo has the same things that Palm Pilots had going in the beginning... simplicity of design, simplicity of use, and third party support... Foleo's main strength is its being linux... dont be surprised to see that 10 years from now, you'll see as much apps for Foleo as you see for Palms today.
Foleo is more of a potentially important product... Hawkins vision is a smartphone centric world, where you do everything with the smartphone... but limited by its small keyboard and/or screen... thus he makes this extender for the smartphone (yes he sees it supporting th iPhone as well) which can also serve as a standalone Linux laptop just enough for your everyday mobile computing needs...
To quote Hawkins: "The further out you are, the more people have trouble understanding. It's hard to go back in time, but when we did the Pilot, there were a lot of people that thought that was a stupid idea. I mean a lot."
Call me a fanboy, but Foleo is a visionary product much the same way Palm Pilots were back in the day. No one understood it, everyone thought it was stupid, but years later, you see people having one using one and loving it.
Foleo has the same things that Palm Pilots had going in the beginning... simplicity of design, simplicity of use, and third party support... Foleo's main strength is its being linux... dont be surprised to see that 10 years from now, you'll see as much apps for Foleo as you see for Palms today.
Foleo is more of a potentially important product... Hawkins vision is a smartphone centric world, where you do everything with the smartphone... but limited by its small keyboard and/or screen... thus he makes this extender for the smartphone (yes he sees it supporting th iPhone as well) which can also serve as a standalone Linux laptop just enough for your everyday mobile computing needs...
To quote Hawkins: "The further out you are, the more people have trouble understanding. It's hard to go back in time, but when we did the Pilot, there were a lot of people that thought that was a stupid idea. I mean a lot."
Fanboi!
Call me a fanboy, but Foleo is a visionary product much the same way Palm Pilots were back in the day. No one understood it, everyone thought it was stupid, but years later, you see people having one using one and loving it.
But nobody uses Palm Pilots anymore, they use smartphones, and this isn't a visionary product, it's a poor copy of the Psion NetBook.
Hawkins was a visionary 20 years ago when he took a block of wood and copied the concept of the Newton to create a PDA market. Unfortunately, the PDA market is completely dead and now he is grasping at straws to figure out how to cash out his shares http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070530/palm_...ions.html?.v=1
Even Palm fanatics have christened this product the Fool-eo.
I still say that Jobs will offer a more entry level version of the MacBook, and put this thing out of its misery.