{"id":2510,"date":"2007-09-05T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/palm-buries-foleo\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:46:54","slug":"palm-buries-foleo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/palm-buries-foleo\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm buries Foleo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Palm Foleo\" id=\"image2511\" title=\"Palm Foleo\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/09\/foleo-blog-img-1.png\" \/>On his <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.palm.com\/palm\/2007\/09\/a-message-to-pa.html\">blog<\/a>, Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, announced today that they would cancel the Foleo project&#8230;for now. In what seems to be a strategic shift, Palm will instead &#8221; focus all of (their) energies on delivering (their) next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market.&#8221; Ed Colligan further admitted that they still need quite &#8220;a number of improvements to make Foleo a world-class product&#8221; which they obviously wouldn&#8217;t be able to tend to with Foleo not being their priority at the moment. Palm will not completely kill off the project and, as their CEO wrote, a Foleo II willl hopefully be released at a later date, once the new platform is up and working properly.<\/p>\n<p>Tom had already <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/palm-releases-foleo-mixed-emotions-ensue\/\">covered<\/a> the announcement of the Foleo back in May, and had pointed out the mixed feelings among Palm users. The Foleo, a Linux-based &#8216;subnotebook&#8217;, was seen as the ideal companion to smartphones and the perfect device for professionals on the go. Lighter, smaller, cheaper and with better battery life than a traditional laptop, the Foleo would have been able to connect to the Internet via WiFi or a smartphone if the latter was not available. Still, many had pointed out how a subnotebook never really has managed to succeed, and that, at a projected price of $500, users can easily purchase a laptop of superior quality.<\/p>\n<p>A slight disappointment then, but if it means that Palm will come up with a better Foleo in the future then giving it up for now is probably worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his blog, Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, announced today that they would cancel the Foleo project&#8230;for now. In what seems to be a strategic shift, Palm will instead &#8221; focus all of (their) energies on delivering (their) next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market.&#8221; Ed Colligan further &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/palm-buries-foleo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Palm buries Foleo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337145,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/337145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}