Palm is indirectly denying the latest rumor report that the Foleo’s release date has been delayed. A Palm spokesperson has told PalmInfocenter that the company is still standing by its original timeframe originally announced back in May, saying “U.S. availability for the Palm Foleo mobile companion will begin this summer.”

If indeed correct, this would technically give Palm until September 23rd to make the device available. It will debut for $499, after a $100 mail-in rebate. As noted in our previous post, select developers have already received working Foleo models in retail packaging under NDA.

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A new video about the Foleo taken at LinuxWorld has been posted to Vnunet. In the video, Palm’s Ben Combee, discusses Palm’s new Foleo Mobile Companion and gives an interesting hands-on demonstration. Most of the information given in the video is already known and has made the rounds online but Ben does delve into some tasty details about the bundled applications and app menu, the Foleo’s remote desktop capabilities and the Foleo’s Intel/Marvell Xscale CPU choice.

Mr. Combee still refers to the device’s release date as “later this summer”. The full-length video can be found here and is 5:16 in length.

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Wind River Systems and Palm today announced that Palm has selected Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition as its open standard Linux platform for future Palm Foleo software releases. Palm selected Wind River Linux for its standard development and deployment environment that will help speed applications to market, while still meeting the requirements for a stable and robust open mobile platform. Along with the platform, Wind River is providing its Wind River Workbench development suite, professional services and customer support to help Palm and its development community.

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After a few quiet weeks, Palm’s corporate blog has been updated with two embedded YouTube videos. The short videos (approx. 4 minutes total runtime) contain footage of Jeff Hawkins going into additional detail about the inspiration behind the Foleo and why the Foleo’s instantaneous response will lead to a more pleasing user experience.

The blog post, dated July 11th, concludes with a few links to notable Foleo stories from around the web, including Brighthand’s hands-on article and a ZDNet interview with the Foleo product manager giving another hands-on tour of the product.

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Palm has announced two additional third party Foleo applications today. Both companies have previously made their applications available for the Palm OS and Windows Mobile platforms and are now bringing their tools to the Palm Foleo.

Avvenu has created a Access ‘n Share service for the Foleo, which enables Foleo users to remotely access digital content and files stores on a work or home PC. luefire will also be bringing its mobile VPN software to the Foleo. Palm and Bluefire are working together on a VPN software client security solution. Read on for the full details.

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Palm today announced three new third party applications for the Palm Foleo when it ships later this summer. MotionApps has announced its mDayscape Personal Information Manager, which will provide a sync-able calendar, tasks and contacts application.

Astraware has also announced the first two games for Palm’s new Foleo mobile companion — Astraware Sudoku and Solitaire and promised that additional titles will follow.

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Gartner’s PDA/Smartphone sector analyst Todd Kort has posted a dismal assessment of the Palm Foleo. Kort says the Foleo fails to adequately address mobile user needs, and believes it offers too little functionality to justify the burden of carrying around another device.

In an era in which increasing functionality is converging into ever-smaller devices, Palm has decided to buck the trend. The Foleo is too large for many smartphone users to consider carrying around as a limited-function accessory that requires a separate carrying case. Gartner believes that this unwieldiness will severely limit Foleo adoption by smartphone users, who place a premium on “pocketability” and attractive design.

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I got some hands on time with the Palm Foleo yesterday at the D Conference and have put together this detailed photo gallery. I also got some more details about the Foleo and was able to sit down with Jeff Hawkins for a brief conversation between sessions at the WSJ D Conference.

Read on for the full article and Foleo photo gallery.

Palm just wrapped up the webcast for the Foleo product introduction. Jeff Hawkins formerly introduced the device, talked about it’s development and intended use and revealed some more specs and details about the upcoming Foleo mobile companion.

Read on for some of our notes and more details from the presentation.

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