Thursday, May 31, 2007

Its a laptop, its a palmtop, its....Foleo

Are you a business person on the go which deals a lot with Emails, or just a gadget freak person like me who likes to try new things. Well this new product will shock you as much as it shocks me. Take a look at the picture, your first guess must be a laptop. Well, guess again..if you look carefully there is a small letter word on the top lid of that device. Yes...you are reading it correctly...it is palm. I am sure you are familiar with Treo and other great stuff from palm. But a laptop-look a like device made by palm?is palm changing its direction to be a laptop maker. Well it took me by surprise also.
Anyway, introducing a new set of product categories, your mobile companion...foleo. I think the product range will be in between the existing portable laptop computer and the portable mobile palmtop or some might called it PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). Foleo has the form of a laptop but the function of a palmtop. Curios???what will this product do? Well...they said it will be like transforming your palm to a bigger size and a convenient way to view and edit your Email, presentation, pictures and web browser. But the great thing about this is the instant on and off, where on means on and off means off. So you don't have to spend time on booting your computer and worry that it does not turned off properly, and you can also save your battery life with this feature.
It's basically a basic computing device with a focus of mobility. It's features includes; 5-hours of battery capacity, built in wifi and bluetooth, usb port, vga port, sd card reader..and it runs on linux based OS. And for the feature and size, it comes with a much cheaper price compare to the same business portable laptop. Its a great way for palm to put its product to a market without a bloody war, or you may called it a blue-ocean strategy.

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