Most of us recall the Engadget open letter to Palm a few weeks ago and remember that one of the points of the letter was that Palm should kill the Foleo and focus on their smartphones. Well, today Palm did just that, they’re abandoning the Foleo project. Which brings the question if this was due to Engadget’s letter.

In the course of the past several months, it has become clear that the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform design and a single focus for our platform development efforts. To that end, and after careful deliberation, I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all of our energies on delivering our next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market. We will, of course, continue to develop products in partnership with Microsoft on the Windows Mobile platform, but from our internal platform development perspective, we will focus on only one.

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