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This is a discussion on Will you buy a Palm Foleo? within the Other Mobile Devices forums; I agree with Chris...with a Mac Powerbook and my Treo...I got it. My Treo syncs flawlessly with my Mac...ok...maybe a ...
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Old 06-11-2007, 08:46 PM   #31 (permalink)
 
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I agree with Chris...with a Mac Powerbook and my Treo...I got it. My Treo syncs flawlessly with my Mac...ok...maybe a few glitches but nothing major, especially with Missing Sync....I got the one two punch that Foleo wants a piece of.

I won't buy a Foleo. Palm should look at improving the Treo line....like maybe follow Apple's direction with iPhone...and improve the Bluetooth capabilities.

Foleo is an idea that would have been welcomed 5 years ago but today it looks a little lame.
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Seems that most of you with negative comments on the "purpose" of the Foleo already own a laptop of some sort.
Personally I think this would be a nice bridge between a desktop computer and the Treo when you are away from home for extended periods for whatever reason. I think there is a niche to be filled, but I don't think it will be huge. And I agree with everybody that it needs to be considerably cheaper ($250.00 ??)
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I was going to buy one but the price is so high my husband & I decided a cheap laptop was the better choice. Thanks anyway Foleo...
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Question Buy or not buying Foleo

If Linux will be able to compete with MAC OS as well as the Latest Symbian OS, I'll be tempted to buy a Foleo for my Life Drive, Tx, and cell phone.
I've used Open Office as a fair to good substitute for MS Office 2003.

More Hands on reviews will be important and that may be why the Foleo Poll is reticent to give a big thumbs up.
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This response is posted quite a while after the start date of this thread. Though, I dare to place my opinion. I've just seen around these ads about a product very similar to the Foleo but WM-oriented. I just can't remember the name of it right now. So, as I notice, the commercial viability of a product just like the Foleo is real. I followed the Foleo news and was disappointed to listen about its demise. In many of my academic and professional activities, the use of a PDA has frequently surpassed the use of a full-size computer (Windows, Mac, Linux). Of course, the latter didn't happen on a processor-based superiority, but rather in a practical solving sense. Very often, the problem to be solved was to get an address right out, or jot down something as someone else speaks out. Very seldom, the problem to solve was to play a full-featured show in front of a customer, or play a movie as part of the job.

In my school years, I did better with a PDA (Palm OS) + folding keyboard + notepad (plain paper notebook) + digital camera (which happened to be embedded in a cellphone). This very same combination served me well in several jobs. Of course, my laptop also served me well in quite a great many ways, but not as a daily tool in the field. My portable combination, by the way, is intended to be backed up by a full-size computer (my laptop).

I am sure that if the Foleo would have made it to the stores, right now I would be using it. Because I'm very used to the Palm OS and I'd have made it through the adaptation process of the Foleo. I understand its limitations and I believe that the main opinion of its detractors travels around a weird fact: the Foleo was the first machine in which complexity in a peripheral surpasses the complexity of the base machine.

Anyway, I still believe it's a viable product, and can't wait to see it around.
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