PalmOne, the makers of the Treo smartphones are improving their handheld computer line. There has always been one problem with handheld computers though: When compared to laptop and desktop computers, PDAs have always been limited by a number of factors which include size and memory.
This is not the case anymore. Today, PalmOne introduced what they call their LifeDrive Mobile Manager. It"s their first PDA to include a hard drive for storage. The Hard drive contains a whopping 4 Gb of storage space.
The LifeDrive boasts a nice, 320x480 high-resolution color screen which can flip from landscape to portrait mode, and a very fast 416MHz Intel XScale processor with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless networking. The matchbook-size 4 GB hard drive is a Hitachi Microdrive, and it can transfer data 30 percent faster than the previous-generation Microdrive. That means you can access your stored music, images and data much more quickly.
The LifeDrive can also do POP, IMAP and Exchange e-mail. You can also download calendar appointments from your office, retrieve documents from your desktop computer and surf the Web via a Wi-Fi internet connection. File formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat Reader are also all supported.