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Palm LifeDrive Review

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  1. Joma •  January 25, 2006
    Rating: 4/5

    Don’t believe the specs page…this PDA is not 6.5in deep! It’s only 0.75in deep.
    As a PDA it’s great. All the usual PIM apps encased in the beautifully simple PalmOS. All the connectivity you can think of (WiFi, Bluetooth, IR, USB, SD/SDIO card reader/writer) plus a 4Gb microdrive. This expand the practicality of the PDA into almost laptop areas….I use mine as a simple laptop…file storage, music player, photo and movie player, email / web, office docs…sounds like a laptop to me! Coupled with a foldaway keyboard, this thing is superb during business meetings or in conferences for note taking in Word, then go fo a coffee in Starbucks and listen to streaming radio while emailing your docs to the office using WiFi. Sweet.

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  2. Rick Lee •  January 31, 2006
    Rating: 3.5/5

    I owned one for about 45 days. I had to send it back due to hard drive failure. This is not an uncommon issue. The Palm OS was not ready for this kind of Mobile Manager with a microdrive. The os initially was very buggy which lead to alot of resets hence the hardrive failures.

    I believe that Palm has released a bios update to solve some of the problems.

    The unit is a good all-in-one compromise. It had an excellent screen, large storage, good interface and a solid looking design.

    I believe that for a few extra dollars they could have made this unit one to remember. Palm installed a miniscule 32mb ram to operate programs from and swapped everything to the microdrive. with 64 or 128mb the swapping would have been reduced or eliminated. the battery consuption for more RAM would have been less than constaly swapping to the microdrive.

    all in all it was a good shot. however once the cards are on the table its hard to pull an ace to win the hand.

    Rating: 7 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  3. Robinson •  December 15, 2006
    Rating: 2.5/5

    Why LifeDrive don´t format the SD Card 4 Gbt? Why palm don´t release a patch to turn it on?

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  4. NIMISH •  October 8, 2008
    Rating: 1/5

    I BOUGHT THE LIFEDRIVE LESS THAN A YEAR AND IT FAILED TO OPERATE. I SEE FOLLOWING BUGS.

    1) THE HOTSYNC DO NOT FUNCTION WELL WITH LAPTOP

    2) IT HALTS IN BETWEEN AND NEED RESET ALL TIME

    I USED TO RESET 15-20 TIMES IN 1 HOUR.

    3) THE PALM OS IS NOT CAPABLE TO RUN THIS MUCH PROGRAMS,

    I THINK NOKIA IS THE BEST. E71 IN PARTICUALR.

    DO NOT BUY LIFE DRIVE. IT’S WASTE OF MONEY.

    Rating: 2 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  5. Badri Khambaty •  October 29, 2008
    Rating: 2/5

    This is a good PDA. Takes too long to boot and start up. Rests frequently. Battery not replaceable.

    Good 4GB drive for storage,and faster speed as compared to its previous models.

    Rating: 4 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  6. Pugly •  September 6, 2009
    Rating: 4/5

    Well finally i got mine. Just bought it on Sunday August 30,2009. Well i have to charged first cause only have very low power on the battery when i bought it.

    After completely charge the next day i tried it is nice and i used my sd card from my previous pda palm tungsten it work and after testing my sd card with program or games.

    Finally browser throught out the lifedrive menu and how to and what functions…..

    Well i tested a game and played it for awhile for about 45 minutes and the battery bar didn’t take out any yet…….

    Also testing the sample music it comes with the speaker seem loud but but the player volume when it reach the middle seem so low going below that can’t hear anything.

    Also view the pic that comes with the graphic looks good every one of them……

    The sample video is good to view is fast and sound good …

    Well so i am a beginner for this one and i’m still going to explore more stuff on this lifedrive made by palm…

    Well my first palm is palm zire 72 but the battery didn’t last for long when watching video clips maybe last for an hour but playing game lasted a bit long……the sound on this is not that loud……

    Well my second one is palm tungsten which good doesn’t run out battery than palm zire 72 does when i played games it lasted a bit longer more than an hour…..but the sound on this is good loud and clear…….

    Well before i bought palm life drive i used palm zire for this one is good for home only since the battery doesn’t last that long have to plug in most when watchin clips…….

    Also for palm tungsten is good for home used..

    For lifedrive is good for travel and home used cause the battery last long……

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

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