I'd like to see the Clio come back. That's a really cool design, that just screams play with me.
You are soooooo right! I called Vadem and emailed about this a million times. The Clio was essentially sold and seems dead. Bummer because an updated Clio would be the best device (and much better than the Fooleo). Imagine it with bluetooth, wifi and running Windows Mobile (sorry but we need real business applications like word, excel, real email with push, pim, and citrix).
You are soooooo right! I called Vadem and emailed about this a million times. The Clio was essentially sold and seems dead. Bummer because an updated Clio would be the best device (and much better than the Fooleo). Imagine it with bluetooth, wifi and running Windows Mobile (sorry but we need real business applications like word, excel, real email with push, pim, and citrix).
It's now called the Clio NXT. The web site has it as coming soon, for the last 5 years.... On the other hand you can pick up one on ebay for $99. Problem is, they were kinda under powered then.
For writing on the go, until now I haven't found any tool I like better than a Dana Alphasmart. It's instant-on and instant-off, it has a grown up keyboard, and it doesn't get hot on my lap. For me, that weighs up against the small dark monochrome screen and having to convert texts to the .pdb-format (I like working in Wordsmith).
This Foleo could be the improved writing tool Alphasmart hasn't made yet. Maybe I'll have to pick one up fast before they flop.
For writing on the go, until now I haven't found any tool I like better than a Dana Alphasmart. It's instant-on and instant-off, it has a grown up keyboard, and it doesn't get hot on my lap. For me, that weighs up against the small dark monochrome screen and having to convert texts to the .pdb-format (I like working in Wordsmith).
This Foleo could be the improved writing tool Alphasmart hasn't made yet. Maybe I'll have to pick one up fast before they flop.
I take you are a writer?!?
That looks like a monster to me only a writer would love something like that
JJ
I've just checked and o no they hadn't. When it comes to keyboards, there's no such thing as "nearly" full-sized. The trouble is, having watched the video of Jeff Hawkins demoing the Foleo, I'm beginning to suspect that it doesn't have a full-sized keyboard either. That would be a huge disappointment, if true.
If you can't touch-type on the blasted thing, then those legions of idiots pontificating about how lame and pointless the Foleo is might not be so idiotic after all.
On the face of it, you'd have thought that a portable (i.e. light) device with, as a minimum,
(a) wireless connectivity
(b) no hard disk but adequate flash memory
(c) a modern, CSS-compliant browser, with Flash and Java support
(d) a real, solid, touch-typable, non-folding keyboard, and
(e) a good quality screen of a size appropriate to that keyboard
would be such a no brainer that at least half-a-dozen models would be readily available. I'm still looking.
I'd never touch a Palm device running Palm OS again (after the disastrously unstable and no-good-for-Internet Clio I had), however if this is even remotely as hackable as an N800 then this could be a perfect device for me.
Small, light, instant-on, good connectivity (including "proper" USB) and VGA out. It's a small ARM laptop, a proper Psion netBook running Linux, without the matching price tag (always Psion's largest problem).
I've never really found a Bluetooth keyboard to be that satisfactory (not least because of the blanking issue) and so something with a larger, higher pixel count screen than the N800, running Linux with a built-in keyboard could be right up my street.
Here's hoping they do a Nokia-style developer's programme. Or they fail abysmally and I can pick one up cheaply a few months after launch ;-)
