PCWorld has published a review of the Foleo from this week’s LinuxWorld conference.

“The Foleo is the first Linux-based item from Palm, and touts an easy one-button e-mail sync over Bluetooth with Treo smarthones (both Palm OS and Windows Mobile versions). It has a 416Mhz processor, 256MB of flash memory and 128MB of ram, but no hard drive. The 10.2 inch screen has a 1024×600 resolution, and it has 802.11b and Bluetooth 1.2 wireless capabilities.

There’s a single USB port, along with slots that can accept SD or compact flash memory cards (Palm says they’ve tested cards up to 4GB). And you can connect the Foleo to an external display, which will use a 1024×768 resolution.

As the Palm guys at the conference put it, the Foleo is meant to be “what happens when a PDA grows up,” rather than a shrunk-down laptop. The applications are similar in look and feel to what you’d use on a smartphone, but are of course easier to use with the larger screen and full-size keyboard.”

Read the full PCWorld article…

As part of yesterday’s 1SRC podcast, I talked about Brighthand’s Editor-in-Chief Ed Hardy’s article, Palm Releases New Information on the Foleo. In the article, Ed talks about some of the Foleo product specifications that have come to light during this week’s LinuxWorld conference. Since the Foleo still isn’t shipping yet, some of the details are still not available.

Here is what we know.

Processor: 416MHz Intel PXA27x

RAM: 256MB of non-volatile memory, about 128MB will be available for data and applications

Graphics Processor: Marathon 2700G graphics accelerator

Storage:
Compact Flash (CF) maxing out at 2GB;
Secure Digital (SD) maxing out at 2GB;
Support for FAT16 and FAT32 formatted USB Flash drives

Networking: 802.11b Wi-Fi and Bluetooth v1.2

I will post more Foleo product specs as they become available.

Read the full Brighthand article…

Palm and Foleo software partner LogMeIn have announced a client for Palm’s upcoming Foleo Mobile Companion.

LogMeIn is a free service that securely connects a remote client with a personal or corporate computer across the Internet. Attendees of this week’s LinuxWorld conference can see a demo of the LogMeIn client running on the Foleo at Palm’s booth, number 925.

“This alliance with Palm is a perfect fit for us. The Foleo is designed for people on the go and – by using LogMeIn – they will be able to access their files, documents, photos and music as if they were at their office or home PC,” said Richard Redding, vice president, business development, LogMeIn. “We are excited to work with Palm and extend LogMeIn’s offerings to improve the experience of Foleo users.”

“The Foleo is the perfect device for mobile professionals who want to travel lighter and carry only what they absolutely need,” said Mark Bercow, senior vice president of business development for Palm, Inc. “By adding LogMeIn to the Foleo, users can travel with the essentials, but still have access to files and documents left behind.”

Read the full Palm press release…

Last week (while I was on vacation) Palm and their Foleo solution partners announced a handful of new software titles for the upcoming Foleo Mobile Companion.

Six Apart Blogging Solutions for Palm’s Foleo

To start things off Palm and San Francisco-based Six Apart Ltd announced that Six Apart’s blogging services, which includes the popular TypePad service, will be compatible with Palm’s Foleo Mobile Companion.

“It’s vitally important for our business and individual customers to have access to their blogs and journals,” said Aaron Emigh, executive vice president and general manager of core technology for Six Apart. “Our work with Palm allows our customers to keep their content fresh and current with the latest in mobile technology.”

“Today’s customers are doing much more with their mobile devices, including staying in touch with online communities,” said Mark Bercow, senior vice president of business development for Palm, Inc. “Six Apart’s blogging applications take advantage of Foleo’s large screen and easy-to-use interface, making it simple for customers to take photos with their Treo(TM) smartphone, upload them to their blogs, then use the Foleo to edit and add text.”

You can read more about Six Apart’s solutions on their website. You can read the full Palm press release on the Palm website.

TealPoint To Bring Applications to Palm Foleo

Palm and San Rafael-based TealPoint Software have announced that TealPoint will be bringing some of their popular Palm OS software to the new Foleo Mobile Companion.

“With quality software support, the Foleo has the capability of revolutionizing the world of mobile computing,” said Holly Egan, director of business operations for TealPoint Software. “As a leading developer of mobile applications, we can leverage our experience to best take advantage of the Foleo’s open platform. Combining Palm’s easy-to-use tools and our own unique proprietary software technology, we’ve been able to bring five full applications to the Foleo in only a few weeks. Moving forward, we plan to bring more applications to the Foleo — new original titles as well as enhanced versions of our existing award-winning 28 applications for Palm OS(R).”

“TealPoint Software has a longstanding relationship with the Palm OS community and has brought dozens of applications to market for Palm devices,” said Mark Bercow, senior vice president of business development for Palm, Inc. “They’re now taking that success and bringing it over to the Foleo to give customers a rich experience, whether editing a picture, solving a puzzle or keeping organized.”

TealPoint will initially bring the following software titles to the Foleo:

• TealSafe
• TealPaint
• TealDiet
• SudokuAddict
• ShortCircuit

More details about TealPoint’s applications for the Foleo can be found on the TealPoint website. You can read the full Palm press release on the Palm website.

NormSoft Pocket Tunes Foleo Preview

At next week’s LinuxWorld conference and expo (August 6-9), NormSoft will be demonstrating Pocket Tunes (pTunes) running on Palm’s new Foleo. You can read the NormSoft’s preview announcement on the NormSoft blog. Continue to check the Foleo Fanatics website for more details about pTunes for the Foleo as they become available.

In Conclusion

In conclusion, Palm has been doing a good job of fostering support for their new Foleo platform by bringing a number well know developers to the table. According to Palm, a publicly available software development kit (SDK) will also be available for download the same day the Foleo launches.

[Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to reflect the correct dates for LinuxWorld.]