Palm today decided to show us the future of mobile computing by giving us... <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/05/palms_adds_the.html">a $500 laptop-sized Treo smartphone add-on that isn't even a real laptop</a>. While I am sure some of you are excited by the Foleo and its Linux OS, I for one am under whelmed. Why would I pay $500 for a glorified smartphone accessory when I could get an entire laptop for just a little bit more?

Stephen Wellman, Contributor

May 30, 2007

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Palm today decided to show us the future of mobile computing by giving us... a $500 laptop-sized Treo smartphone add-on that isn't even a real laptop. While I am sure some of you are excited by the Foleo and its Linux OS, I for one am under whelmed. Why would I pay $500 for a glorified smartphone accessory when I could get an entire laptop for just a little bit more?In fact, I can think of five reasons why the Foleo is a bad idea.

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