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.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- public demo or preview
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
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.
Existence timeline
Palm unveils the mobile companion with a planned summer release.
Working hardware appears at events and in hands-on reports.
Palm solicits third-party Linux applications for the device.
Palm ends the product before ordinary retail availability.
A small number of pre-release machines and software builds remain.
Why it ended
Palm chief executive Ed Colligan cancelled Foleo in September 2007, citing the need to concentrate on one next-generation software platform.
Last confirmed trace
Prototype units, software images, manuals, photographs and contemporary hands-on reports preserve the near-release device.
What it left behind
Foleo looked misguided beside contemporary laptops but anticipated the lightweight, instant-on companion computers that became common soon afterward.
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.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.