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Originally set to be announced later this afternoon at a live webcast, Palm has unveiled it’s new category of products - a mobile companion. The Foleo, a first of its new category, is a new device that interfaces with smartphones to help mobile users do more on the road. The main function of this device is to bring a bigger screen and full keyboard to your smartphone. When necessary a user will be able to whip this out and can instantly synchronize with his smartphone to do email, web browsing, document editing and even picture viewing. The unit sports a 10-inch screen, a full keyboard, bluetooth (for synchronizing with a smartphone), and WIFI to take advantage of hotspots and home or office wireless networks.
Palm has partnered with Opera to provide web browsing functionality and Dataviz (makers of Documents to Go) for office document editing.
The Foleo is set to be released this summer with a price tag of $499 after a $100 rebate.
To learn more check out Palm’s website : Palm, Inc. - Products - Foleo
Read the Press Release : Palm Advances Mobile Computing with Its First Mobile Companion Product
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June 7th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
But Verizon disabled Bluetooth as a 3G modem for laptops…so what happens to the Foleo???
June 7th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
I was wondering that myself. Maybe when the Foleo is released, the smartphone companion software will have functionality comparable to USBModem or PdaNet…