LifeDrive
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| Manufacturer | Palm |
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| Type | PDA |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, IrDA |
| Retail Availability | 2005 |
| Operating System | Palm OS Garnet at 5.4.8 |
| Camera | N/A |
| Media | 4GB Hitachi Microdrive (3.85 GB accessible to user) with 16 MB Flash ROM, 32 MB RAM for running programs |
| Input | Active Input with Graffiti 2 |
| Power | 1660 mA·h 3.7 V rechargeable lithium ion Non-Removeable Battery |
| CPU | Intel PXA270 at 416MHz with Intel XScale Technology |
| Display | 320x480 Rotatable Transflective TFT color touchscreen with 16-Bit (65K) Color and "One-Button Flip" Portrait-to-Landscape-and-Back feature |
| Touchpad | Touchscreen with Stylus |
The LifeDrive is a handheld device produced by Palm, Inc. (then PalmOne). This device is the first device released by palmOne to fall under its new device category of "Mobile Manager".
It features a 4 GB hard drive (most PDAs use Flash memory or RAM), with a data partition accessible and usable in the sense of a portable disk drive. It also includes Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless connectivity, and is the first handheld produced by palmOne to include both. It also includes eReader, Documents To Go, and WiFile in its software package. Although the LifeDrive uses a hard disk which was selected for fast spinup speed, some have noticed delays in application launching which were greater than those in previous non-hard disk based handhelds. Reports from users often conflict in regards to the length of the delay, and it is believed that many early reports of the delay from reviewers are due to a slower pre-production hard-drive.
A user applicable ROM update was subsequently released by PalmOne in Dec 2005 which addresses the majority of the key complaints it had from some of its users.
As of 2007-01-31, the LifeDrive has been discontinued. [1]
| Built-In Wireless | Bluetooth 1.1 Compliance Wi-Fi 802.11b Certification |
| Size | 4.76h x 2.87w x 0.74d in 121h x 73w x 19d mm |
| Weight | 6.8 oz (190 grams) |
| Expansion | SD, SDIO and Multi Media Card support via built-in expansion card slot. Supports available, separately-sold peripherals via the "Athena" Multi-Connector |
| Audio | Stereo audio headset via 3.5 mm stereo audio jack. Speaker and microphone on device. |
