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Palm Foleo

Palm announced a Linux laptop companion, demonstrated working hardware and set a price, then cancelled it weeks before release to focus on a future mobile platform.

HOW CLOSE TO REALITY85/100
CATEGORYInternet & Tech
LIFECYCLE2007
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Quick facts

Existence state
Never Born
Peak stage
public demo or preview
Research confidence
high
Last verified
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What it was

A compact Linux-based mobile companion intended to pair with Palm smartphones for email and document work.

Foleo reached working public demonstrations, press review units, a named software ecosystem and an announced US price. Ordinary customers never received a completed retail launch.

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Existence timeline

Foleo announced

Palm unveils the mobile companion with a planned summer release.

Public demonstrations

Working hardware appears at events and in hands-on reports.

Developer ecosystem

Palm solicits third-party Linux applications for the device.

Cancellation

Palm ends the product before ordinary retail availability.

Prototypes survive

A small number of pre-release machines and software builds remain.

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Why it ended

Palm chief executive Ed Colligan cancelled Foleo in September 2007, citing the need to concentrate on one next-generation software platform.

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Last confirmed trace

Prototype units, software images, manuals, photographs and contemporary hands-on reports preserve the near-release device.
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What it left behind

Foleo looked misguided beside contemporary laptops but anticipated the lightweight, instant-on companion computers that became common soon afterward.

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How we classified it

The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.

The strongest verified milestone maps to public_demo_or_preview under Arrival Score V1.

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Sources & verification

Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.

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