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Handheld pionieer Palm just announced a smart phone companion called Foleo during the prestigious “D” conference hosted by Wall Street Journal reporters Walt Mosberg and Kara Swisher in Southern California.
The Silicon Valley company is pitching the Foleo as a “smart phone companion product”; meaning users would carry both devices in their pockets, synchronizing data between the platforms, just as PDA users swap data with their Computers. So far, so good, but who the heck needs another device? I doubt that even hardcore gear heads on the go really need to carry another “companion” device around. Isn’t a cell phone, digital camera, iPod, camcorder and laptop enough?
Plus: According to Insiders, the product is flying against Palm’s own strategy of migrating away from PDAs built around data entry to smart phones centered on voice operation. On the other hand, Hardware vendors can earn larger profits selling the more expensive smart phones, such as Palm’s Treo, which have grown in popularity thanks to features like mobile e-mail.