The Palm Foleo has a 10-inch screen and full-size keyboard, running Linux.

It's meant to be a mobile companion that connects wirelessly with your smartphone to help you do more on the go. The Foleo has up to five hours of battery life but even priced at $499 the lack of Wi-Fi is but one aspect that makes you wonder: Why?

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 5 Reasons Why Palm’s New Foleo Device Will Fail

By Alice Hill
RealTechNews

I’m a little stunned here. Jeff Hawkins is a hero of mine. He designed the Palm Pilot and made the PDA a viable product category after scores of failures. Even the Treo at one point had many corporate users under its spell. And today when we were told of a new breakthrough announcement and product demo from Jeff himself to tech heavyweights Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, it just had to be good.

Jeff, Jeff, Jeff
A lot will be written about the specs and so on, so I will just cut to the chase. Here are Five reason why Jeff and Palm have really veered into outer space with the ill-fated Foleo:

1. It’s a $499 sub-notebook that runs Linux
2003 is calling on line one. It wants its hardware back Psion on line two: it wants 1996 back.

2. It’s meant to be paired with the Treo
We want to break free of pairings. We want our smartphones smarter, not some 1990s version of hot syncing. So you drag this around to give yourself a larger screen and keyboard.

3. 5 hour battery life
My tiny Sony gets nearly 8 and runs all my office apps, has integrated wireless (cellular and WIFi) and even sports a DVD burner all at about 4 lbs. True it was not $499, but my Audrey was and I can always dust it off and get to work if I have to.

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