Wednesday, May 18, 2005
It's official! LifeDrive is here!
The cat's finally out of the bag. LifeDrive is now here. This is confirmed by PalmOne itself by putting up a page for it. It will cost $499.
PalmInfoCenter and Dave's PDA Place gives you product previews while those of Mobile Tech review, BargainPDA and CNet Asia offer reviews of the LifeDrive.
The LifeDrive boasts of a 4GB MicroDrive made by Hitachi of which 3.85GB are available to the user. It still has 64MB of RAM of which isn't non-volatile as those of the Tungsten T5, Tungsten E2, and Treo 650.
Worth mentionings is that PalmOne has finaly integrated Wifi into their latest PDA. Not since Tungsten C has there been a PalmOne PDA with wifi. Bluetooth is also included.
The battery isn't replacable but seems impressive enough. As noted in Mobile Tech Review:
PalmInfoCenter and Dave's PDA Place gives you product previews while those of Mobile Tech review, BargainPDA and CNet Asia offer reviews of the LifeDrive.
The LifeDrive boasts of a 4GB MicroDrive made by Hitachi of which 3.85GB are available to the user. It still has 64MB of RAM of which isn't non-volatile as those of the Tungsten T5, Tungsten E2, and Treo 650.
Worth mentionings is that PalmOne has finaly integrated Wifi into their latest PDA. Not since Tungsten C has there been a PalmOne PDA with wifi. Bluetooth is also included.
The battery isn't replacable but seems impressive enough. As noted in Mobile Tech Review:
As a test, I surfed the web for 1.5 hours, watched videos for 40 minutes, viewed 50 images from an SD card, played games (Billiards, Bejeweled 2 and Trivial Pursuit) for 1 hour total, wrote an MS Word document in Documents To Go (25 minutes) and listened to 40 minutes worth of MP3s with the screen on during playback and had 38% battery remaining. Not bad for a device with an internal hard drive. We got 6 hours of continuous MP3 playback with the screen turned off and watching a two hour video with brightness set to 66% used 50% of the battery's charge (we used headphones with both tests).
