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Palm’s Foleo: The Closer It Gets, the Better It Looks?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 10, 2007

“Palm’s announcement of the Foleo at the end of May quickly
became a ridicule-fest. The name was an acronym for ‘Fat Obsolete
Lacking Expensive Ordinary’ according to one Engadget commenter.
But Palm is showing it off this week at LinuxWorld in San
Francisco, and the better you understand it, the harder it is to
make fun of it.

“A post yesterday on LinuxDevices.com includes photos and specs
that make the device sound downright interesting…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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