Oh Foleo, Foleo. Wherefore art thou Foleo?

He's dead. Dead I tell you! Dead!

Now, its been a good 10 years since Will Shakespeare and I hung out...but if memory serves me correctly.... Romeo croaked! And I'm of the humble opinion that the Foleo will undoubtedly follow suit in a much much shorter time.

The concept is really so off base, that you gotta wonder?!? Come on, who the hell is going to drop $5 bills on this thing? You can get a good laptop for five hundy. I'll tell you - There is no way I'm getting on the road for more than a 1 day trip without my beloved Mac. I tether the Mac with my BlackBerry all the time when I cant find a HotSpot but its really not fast enough for downloading emails and browsing.

The Foleo needs a 3G radio and an independant data plan from Cingular or Verizon for it to be even remotely worth it. It has to have more than just the ability to tether to a phone that then connects to the net. It's like how many things do they think we are going to whip out and how many batteries are we going to monitor when we are going to fire off some emails and check stuff out.

Now, I like the idea of an ultra ultra portable laptop/notebook/tablet thing/ but its gotta have a rock solid OS, simple word processor, browser, multi media viewer, camera, PIMs and killer email - pretty much everything that comes on my oh so slick BlackBerry Curve 8300. The Curve is so nice - I gotta say, that our neighbors to the north really know what they are doing. Now. I've only had it a short time - but its beautifully simple, feels great and does all the things that a BlackBerry does well. Plus the keypad is the best I've used EVER!

I'd like to go on record here and call the Blackberry Curve 8300 the Wii of the year when it comes to mobile phones - now lets not hope the iPhone ends up being the PS3.

I bet I can make my own "comparable" Foleo with a used Sony laptop from '02 and a USB Bluetooth dongle. OK - Good idea - I'll keep you posted and let you know how it works out.