Top Five Reasons The Palm Foleo Makes No SenseTop Five Reasons The Palm Foleo Makes No Sense

Palm today decided to show us the future of mobile computing by giving us... <a href="http://www.information.com/blog/main/archives/2007/05/palms_adds_the.html">a $500 laptop-sized Treo smartphone add-on that isn't even a real laptop</a>. While I am sure some of you are excited by the Foleo and its Linux OS, I for one am under whelmed. Why would I pay $500 for a glorified smartphone accessory when I could get an entire laptop for just a little bit more?

Stephen Wellman, Contributor

May 30, 2007

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Palm today decided to show us the future of mobile computing by giving us... a $500 laptop-sized Treo smartphone add-on that isn't even a real laptop. While I am sure some of you are excited by the Foleo and its Linux OS, I for one am under whelmed. Why would I pay $500 for a glorified smartphone accessory when I could get an entire laptop for just a little bit more?In fact, I can think of five reasons why the Foleo is a bad idea.

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