Palm drops Folio

September 7th, 2007

Looks like Palm has been dealt a side swipe due to the emergence of cheap light weight laptops heralded by the Asus eeepc.

In a statement on his blog, Ed Colligan has announced that they will not be delivering its ultra-lightweight laptopesque Folio device. A wise move in my opinion, a $600 device has no real market when there is a possibility to buy a fully featured lightweight laptop for half the price.

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Paradigm Shift / Critical Mass etc. etc.

July 31st, 2007

　　Heard today about the launch of the Asus eee range of notebooks. I can hear you all yawn collectively, what could be so exciting about yet another notebook launch?? Well this one is quite a bit different. Its offered in sub-notebook sizes ranging from 7″ to 10″ screens. It uses solid sta [ ... ]

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Open Source Phone now for sale

July 9th, 2007

　　Just splurged on an impulse buy. Heard through the wires that openmoko launched its completely open source mobile phone on the market. Without thinlong I went on and bought the dev kit and phone for the princley sum of $567 (including shipping). Its that damn exchange rate!! Dollars are so cheap now [ ... ]

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