- Re: Foleo

- Palm Foleo and $399

- Re: Palm Foleo

- RE: Ebook Reader

- Palm Foleo,

Date: 6 Jun 2007 13:42:35 +0700
From: Terry Gordon <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Foleo

Striking that the Foleo blog trashes it and wonders who would want a stripped down, light laptop and why one would travel without all the best M$ software.  Some parts of the blog beat up on all ultraportable devices as just extra weight to carry around.  Suggests that our 2 worlds (ultraportable Psion aficiandos (sp?) and regular laptop folks) will never come together.  The Foleo looks great to me, but I'm waiting for Apple to come out with an ultralite.  Otherwise, I'll probably get a super lite PC (the more like a Netbook the
better) with Core Duo and follow the directions for hacking Mac's OSX onto it.

TG

Date: 6 Jun 2007 16:30:22 +0700
From: Thomas F. van der Zijden <address truncated>
Subject: Palm Foleo and $399

Dear all,

In answer to Mike: it will be very interesting how much the Palm Foleo will be in Europe. The combination of "Europe" and "taxes and excises" can do very nasty things with prices. I am not too keen on grey import either.

Also, I am a bit worried: while the Foleo seems to run under Linux, this is not necessarily a guarantee that normal Linux software can be developed for it, is it ?
The Ericsson R380 ran EPOC, but it was "redesigned" in such a way that no additional normal EPOC programme could run.

Yours truly,

Thomas van der Zijden

Date: 6 Jun 2007 21:51:39 +0700
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Palm Foleo

Chris Handley said:

<<Even ignoring WinCE (yuck), a big problem with the Netbook Pro as I
understand it is that it is NOT aimed at general consumers. >

<<BTW, I don't know how stable the version of WinCE is on the Netbook Pro, but WinCE always *tends* to be unstable & need daily soft resets if you do
anything demanding.  Linux shouldn't be so bad...>

<<Any Netbook Pro owners please feel free to correct me, and/or update me.>

Looks like a great topic developing.

My experience with office suite has been only on the Dana and the Tungsten C. 
The hardware and operating problems make it hard to evaluate.  When it was working it filled the bill.

Would like comments from a WinCE Netbook user.  The comment that Palm is providing it with "locked" Linux.  Is this possible?  I thought Linux by
design is an open system

Almost tempted to buy an early unit to play with but having bought yet one more sailboat (a 1969 Coronado 25) my funds seemed to have petered out.

jim - port Townsend, wa, usa

Date: 6 Jun 2007 21:51:42 +0700
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: RE: Ebook Reader

Dear  Ed

<<I'm still using Mobipocket as my preferred reader. Hope this helps,>

Helps a bunch.  I downloaded it and can now access many more free (out of copyright) books.  Matches my dead Palm.

It won't read the ,TCR library I downloaded from CompuServe's ebook library but Vreader5 handles that part just fine.

Thanks,

jim - port townsend, wa, use

Date: 7 Jun 2007 22:45:56 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Palm Foleo,

Att.: Chris Handley

Re.: Palm Foleo - I think Mr. Potter is bashing his head against a bigger wall than you ... <G>. I think it looks great and it could work great as well. My question is whether or not one can do Remote Access on it to a remote computer. If that is possible, it could be the perfect machine for me. It also has to connect easily enough with both wireless wifi as well as with a cable for in hotels etc. Any opinions on these points ?
Noting the remarks about it still being  PDA, would all the usual Palm programs work on it as well or not ?  If not, what Linux software base is there for such a machine ?

Best regards,

Itamar