January 24th, 2006 | by Brandon King
The Palm LifeDrive is a good first stab at the PDA-Media Manager hybrid concept, and the overall design shows great promise.
Highs: Easy navigation; integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth; lots of storage space
Lows: Slow hard drive performance; dim screen; old operating system
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The Palm LifeDrive is the first of what we hope will be many “Mobile Managers” by the once king of PDAs. The heart of the LifeDrive concept is integrating a micro hard drive into the PDA. If you ever thought it would be nice to have your essential PIM information in the same device as your pictures and music, all rolled up in a clean interface, your answer may have arrived.
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by Badri Khambaty on October 29, 2008:
“This is a good PDA. Takes too long to boot and start up. Rests frequently. Battery not replaceable. Good 4GB drive for storage,and faster speed as compared to its previous models.” More...