A niche for the Palm Foleo is discovered!

A jkOnTheRun reader who will remain anonymous as I don’t have permission to disclose his/her name sent me the following email with an interesting question:

I came upon your blog looking up Batman oddly enough, (yes I would probably get along great with your friend Marc).  For some time I’ve been looking for a low frills portable word processing device with little luck.  With your vast knowledge and experience in the world of so many on the go devices of the likes I’ve never seen, I was hoping you’ve come across something.
I am an avid note jotter and unambitious writer who constantly loses pocket size notebooks before I can type the important stuff into my pc.  Not only is writing in the tiny things a pain but it’s even worse to have to retype it all later.  A thing I put off so long it’s likelier I loose the notes or they get too worn in my back pocket to read.  My demands for such a device aren’t non specific but if you can point me in the right direction I’m sure I can pick something suitable.  I’m hoping there is a device in existence I haven’t found with my meager consumer research skills that has a large enough qwerty keyboard not to hit 3 letters a time and requires no OS boot time with enough battery life to be useful.  I don’t think it’s likely to find a word processor specific gadget in our multi tasked device world but that would be it’s primary use for me.  While video, mp3s, web surfing and various palm style apps would be nice I believe that would only add to the need for an OS, less batt life and more $$.  I hope I haven’t missed such a thing in your blog posts but if so please send me a link as I wouldn’t even know what to type into the ctr f to find it.  If you get time to answer this, thanks a lot!  Keep up the good work.

This is an interesting question and it’s good to get reminded that for some simpler is better if that fits their needs.  The first solution that came to mind is the Palm Foleo, which I think would make the perfect word processor.  Those who do a lot of writing could make good use of the Foleo.  Instant on, good battery life and it’s cheap.  If this reader needs to connect to the web or get email that can be done by connecting to a phone.  We may have discovered an actual niche for the Foleo.

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