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The Palm Foleo was a planned subnotebook computer that was announced by mobile device manufacturer Palm Inc. on May 30, 2007,〔(Palm - Company - Investor Relations )〕 and canceled three months later. It intended to serve as a companion for smartphones including Palm's own Treo line. The device ran on the Linux operating system and featured 256 MB of flash memory and an immediate boot-up feature.〔Implied by comments by Jeff Hawkins at (D5 ). See (video )〕 The Foleo featured wireless access via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Integrated software included an e-mail client which was to be capable of syncing with the Treo E-Mail client, the Opera web browser and the Documents To Go office suite.〔(Image: foleo-live-13-L.jpg - PalmInfocenter )〕 The client did not send and retrieve mail over the Wi-Fi connection, instead transmitting via synchronization with the companion smartphone.〔(Correction (with additional information) to my post on Palm’s Foleo | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com )〕 The device was slated to launch in the U.S. in the third quarter of 2007 for a price expected by Palm to be $499 after an introductory $100 rebate.〔 Palm canceled Foleo development on September 4, 2007, with Palm CEO Ed Colligan announcing that the company would return its focus to its core product of smartphones and handheld computers.〔(The Official Palm Blog: A Message to Palm Customers, Partners and Developers )〕 Soon after the device was canceled, a branch of subnotebooks called netbooks, similar to the Foleo in size and functionality, reached the market. Had it been released, the Foleo would have been the founding device in the category. At the time, Palm was performing poorly in face of heavy competition in the smartphone market. The company's sales did not recover, and it was purchased by information technology giant Hewlett-Packard in April 2010. ==Software== The Foleo was initially reported to run a modified Linux kernel. The kernel was reported as being version 2.6.14-rmk1-pxa1-intc2 ("rmk1" indicates this is the ARM architectural version, "pxa1" indicates it is of the PXA family of Intel/Marvell Technology Group XScale processors, "intc2" is possibly an IRQ handler).〔(Palm Foleo runs Linux OS version 2.6.14 )〕 On August 7, 2007, Palm announced〔(Palm Making Behind-the-Scene Changes to the Foleo )〕 that it had chosen Wind River Systems to help it customize the standard Linux kernel to make it more suitable for this device. The device used a custom-built widget framework called HxUI, which is based on the LiTE toolbox over the DirectFB graphics subsystem. HxUI uses XML to describe its interfaces.〔Palm Developer Network, ''Palm Developer Guide, Foleo Beta''.〕 Bundled Applications〔(Palm Sets Its Sights On Your Laptop - News and Analysis by PC Magazine )〕 included the Opera web browser (Supports Flash and Ajax, but not Flash video), an E-mail application, a PDF viewer, and DocumentsToGo to handle Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. A number of companies had announced plans to release applications for this product. For example, LogMeIn planned to provide remote PC access capabilities to the Foleo,〔http://socialnews.palm.com/release.aspx?hid=16〕 Avenuu planned to provide remote file access,〔http://socialnews.palm.com/release.aspx?hid=13〕 Bluefire planned to provide VPN software.〔 On July 26, 2007, Normsoft was the first company to announce〔(First MP3 Player for the Palm Foleo Announced )〕 an MP3 player for Foleo. Some executives at Palm had suggested that the fan-less CPU would probably not be able to play back video, while others had disagreed. Other companies had announced plans for games, a photo editor, and blogging tools. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Palm Foleo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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