Palm LifeDrive Mobile Manager : 4GB on board!

Could the Palm LifeDrive Mobile Manager be PalmOne's ticket back to the top of the PDA charts? With bluetooth, WiFi, 65K colour screen and a whopping 4GB on board, it just may be! I'm surprised why none of the other PDA manufacturers haven't released higher capacity data storage for their machines. Well Palm definitely has first-mover advantage in this round.

Personally, I would have liked to see the Palm LifeDrive come with mobile phone functionality and camera built in and am quite puzzled that these have been left out. At the end of the day, I still think it will do well in today's data storage hungry market.

The PalmOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager should be hitting our fair shores later this month to early June.

Specifications of the Palm LifeDrive Mobile Manager:
wireless features
- Bluetooth 1.1 wireless
- Wi-Fi 802.11b wireless

processor
- Intel 416MHz XScale processor

memory
- 4GB hard drive (3.85GB accessible to user)
- 16MB ROM

battery
Rechargeable Lithium Ion

operating system
- Palm OS 5.4 (Garnet)

size
- 12.1cm x 7.3cm x 1.9cm

weight
- 192.8 grams

display
- 320x480 Transflective TFT colour touchscreen
- 16 bit colour / 65,000+ colours
- portrait and landscape orientation

expansion
- Supports SD, SDIO and MultiMediaCards via built-in expansion card slot
- Supports peripherals (sold separately) via the multi-connector (see #12 above)

audio
- Stereo audio headset compatible via 3.5mm stereo audio jack - headset sold separately.

Order your PalmOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager at Mr.Gadget Australia!
(arriving late May - early June 2005)