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Palm Blvd > News > PDAStreet Presents LifeDrive Mobile Manager Forum PDAStreet Presents LifeDrive Mobile Manager Forum
By PDAStreet.com Staff
Do you have an opinion, question, or comment about LifeDrive? Are you one of the first people to buy one of these 'laptop' replacements? If so, we've launched a new section of our Palm platform discussion boards just for you. Click here to access the new forum.
LifeDrive LifeDrive features a 4-gigabyte (GB) Hitachi Microdrive, a high-resolution screen, and Bluetooth 1.1 personal area networking. It is also (somewhat remarkably) the first palmOne handheld in years, since the Tungsten C, to integrate Wi-Fi wireless networking. Out of LifeDrive's 4 GB of hard disk storage, about 3.85 GB is available to the user. The Hitachi Microdrive used in the handheld is supposed to be 30 percent faster than previous editions of the tiny, matchbook-size hard disk. LifeDrive's display, at 320 x 480 pixels, is the same resolution as other recent palmOne devices, such as the Tungsten T3 and Tungsten T5. PalmOne asserts Mobile Managers ability to store, effortlessly sync, and integrate a much larger number and wider type of file separates them from its other types of devices. With LifeDrive, you can entertain yourself, share and carry personalized content—photos, home movies or an entire MP3 collection, for example—and mobilize virtually all of your essential desktop computer files and folders. Unlike hard disk-based MP3 players (e.g. Apple's iPod) or portable media players from vendors like Creative and Archos that can hold ten times as much or more information as LifeDrive, palmOne's new device is capable of carrying and working with numerous file types simultaneously. So a single LifeDrive, for example, may handle:
Four applications are key to LifeDrive: Folder Sync, which automatically updates selected files when syncing; File Transfer, for dragging and dropping files from a PC onto the Mobile Manager; Drive Mode, to enable the device to behave like a USB drive for easy file transfers to any PC or Mac; and Files View, to maintain a transferred folder structure on the handheld. This last feature purports to make it simpler to locate important information. DataViz Documents To Go lets you work with native Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat Reader files. Of course, there's also the standard Palm platform personal information management applications plus the VersaMail e-mail client (for POP, IMAP and Exchange accounts) and a Web browser. With LifeDrive's high-resolution display, you can view documents in both portrait (vertical) and landscape (horizontal) modes, and play back video using the whole screen. The full 3.85 GB Microdrive holds up to 8.5 hours of video, depending on how you encode the movie. The Mobile Manager is palmOne's first device in a long time not to bundle Real Networks' RealPlayer. Instead, it comes with an application called Pocket Tunes from NormSoft. In addition to supporting several popular mobile music formats (i.e. MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and WAV files), Pocket Tunes is compatible with Real Networks' Rhapsody music streaming subscription service. Consequently, a million plus songs and three scores worth of radio channels are available to the LifeDrive user. The device comes with a free 30-day Rhapsody trial. An app called Camera Companion lets users stick their digital camera's Secure Digital (SD) card into the Mobile Manager's SD slot and easily transfer images to the device's Microdrive. For those with digital cameras that don't support SD cards, a separate peripheral will be available. You plug your camera into the add-on and then wirelessly transfer its pictures to LifeDrive.
More Specs
While the 4.76 x 2.87 x 0.74 inch LifeDrive is smaller lengthwise than the Tungsten T5, it is a bit thicker and, at 6.8 ounces, heavier. With an integrated voice recorder with activation button, LifeDrive has something other recent palmOne handhelds like the professional and business orientated Tungsten T5 did not. There's also a 1600 mAH Lithium Ion battery that isn't swappable. PalmOne prices LifeDrive at $499. Related Links:
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