Palm confirmed that the production of the Foleo mini-laptop was canceled, the cancellation is noted by its Chief Excetive Ed Colligan. As replacement, the Palm will develop Foleo II, but why? According to Mr. Colligan, the Foleo was going to far from Palm’s other devices.

“Foleo is based on [a] second platform and a separate development environment, and we need to focus our efforts on one platform. Our own evaluation and early market feedback were telling us that we still have a number of improvements to make Foleo a world-class product, and we can not afford to make those improvements on a platform that is not central to our core focus. That would not be right for our customers or for our developer community. Jeff Hawkins and I still believe that the market category defined by Foleo has enormous potential,” Colligan added.

“When we do Foleo II it will be based on our new platform, and we think it will deliver on the promise of this new category. We’re not going to speculate now on timing for a next Foleo, we just know we need to get our core platform and smartphones done first.”

As you know this cancellation costs $10 million, wow.

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During Samsung 4G Forum 2007, Samsung Electronics presented its new WiMAX UMPC with codename SPH-P9200. The new SPH-P9200 allows you to browse the internet via WiFi. The most interesting thing of the UMPC is the folding QWERTY keyboard, it make the UMPC just like the desktop computer. In addition to the WiFi feature, this compact UMPC also allows users to VoIP phobe via Mobile WiMax. Other features include 5-inch toucschreen and 30GB of hard drive. However the pricing and the availability of SPH-P9200 is still unclear.

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Raon Digital presented its new Vega UMPC during COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2007. Their UMPC based on AMD platform, it boasts AMD Geode CPU, 256GB random access memory, and 30GB of hard disk drive. As an ultra mobile pc, the new Vega proudly boasts 4.3-inch display at 800 x 400 pixel resolutions, but if you feel this screen is too small do not hesitate to use external monitor (through VGA port), you can also use external keyboard for your comfortable (connect via US port).

Utilizing this device users able to connect to the internet via WiFi, so they will always connected as long as in the coverage area. The pricing and the availability in retail store still unconfirmed. Continued

The Sliding Amtek UMPC U560 boasts Intel A110 processor (800MHz), 512MB of memory, 40GB of hard drive, and wireless connectivity that support Bluetooth and WiFi. Featuring 4.8-inch display screen which sports 1024×600 resolution, the U560 does have built-in camera.

Something that make the shape and look of U560 so attractive is the sliding screen that you should release it to use the keyboard. It comes with Windows Vista operating system and will be available in retail store later this year. Continued

VIA NanoBook coming to the mobile world with new design. It utilizes 7-inch display plus additional display on the right side which make the device unique. The first impression make other company such Packard Bell interesting to apply its design for the next release of EasyNote XS and of course they has made an agreement as well.

The new NanoBook powered by VIA C7-M processor, up to 1GB of memory, 30GB hard drive, and of course a must have WiFi 802.11 g. Its battery last 5 hours, and other features will show off later on. Just be back here. Continued

Gigabyte proudly presented its new UMPC U60 during COMPUTEX Taipe 2007. The UMPC boasts LED-backlight screen, 1GHz processor, VIA C7-M chip, onboard 768MB memory, and 30GB HDD PATA with speed at 4200rpm. Coming with sliding model, the new U60 equipped with integrated 300K pixel camera which suitable for video chat. The screen size is 6.5-inch and sports 800×480 pixel resolutions.

The 1GHz processor it out perform the Fujitsu Lifebook U8240 which powered bu 800MHz Intel A110. We should have more detail specification, availability, as well as the pricing set in the next few days. Continued

Samsung again show off its newest Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) Q1 Ultra, now they presented during China Beijing International High-Tech Expo (CHITEC) 2007 at Beijing, China. As presented in the last CeBIT 2007 at Hanover, Germany, the UMPC boasts Intel McCaslin platform, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, as well as standard Bluetooth.

Something that the recent expo make special is the demonstration of touchscreen functionality through playing simulation game. Continued

Fujitsu released new convertible type UMPC named Lifebook U8240. The UMPC powered by Intel A110 (800MHz) CPU, up to 1024 MB ram, and 20GB HDD as the main features. Other keys feature include Wireless Lan 802.11 a/g/n ready and fingerprint reader for easy and better security control. The availability is scheduled on June for $1316. With Windows Vista option, users have some advantages of the latest Microsoft operating system.

If you feel the price tag is too pricey, Fujitsu provides another option of course with lower specs (the memory down to 512MB) and Continued