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Palm LifeDrive - 4GB PDA - Showtime Bundle

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Technical Details

  • Memory: NEW 4GB hard drive (3.85GB available to the user)
  • File Management: NEW LifeDrive" smart file management
  • Wi-Fi (802.11b): Stay connected in 80,000 public Wi-Fi hotspots in popular hotels, cafes and airports.
  • Bluetooth® Wireless Technology: Built-in Bluetooth technology for connecting to compatible wireless devices, such as mobile phones, laptops, and printers
  • Screen: 320x480 Transflective TFT color display with touchscreen supports more than 65,000 colors
  • Size and Weight: 4.76 x 2.87 x .74, 6.8 oz.
  • Updated Document Support: Create and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint compatible file. Open Adobe Acrobat files.
  • Sync Fast: Update your Outlook3 information, synchronize, and transfer files with USB 2.0
  • Expansion Slot: Supports SD, SDIO and MultiMediaCard" expansion cards (sold separately) to add extra memory, features or content
  • Processor: Intel® 416MHz XScale" processor
  • Operating System :Palm OS® Garnet (v5.4)
  • Battery: Rechargeable Lithium-Ion
  • 5-way Navigator: Access information with just one hand
  • Special edition LifeDrive: includes Philips SBC HS520 Headphones, Pocket DVD Studio Lite and MMPlayer Lite
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Product details

  • Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 7.3 x 12.1 cm ; 196 g
  • Boxed-product Weight: 1.4 Kg
  • Delivery Destinations: Visit the Delivery Destinations Help page to see where this item can be delivered.
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  • Item model number: LifedriveST
  • ASIN: B000BY4CHM
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 2 Nov 2005
  • Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 92,888 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

The eagerly anticipated LifeDrive™ mobile manager is here. With its 4 GB¹ hard drive, extra large display, built-in Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi®, and advanced productivity and multimedia features, it is a ground-breaking new concept which gives users instant-on access to the ingredients of their busy lives, including work documents, media files and email² .

With a 4GB1 hard drive and built-in Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® wireless support, the LifeDrive™ mobile manager from palmOne lets you easily carry all the essentials of your busy life. Files and folders from your desktop computer, 300 songs, 2.5 hours of video, 1000 vacation photos, and more are right there with you. Even files you may have left behind are within easy reach with WiFile software, 2 whether you're in the airport lounge or a hallway between meetings.

With support for POP, IMAP and built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync,® 3 you can stay on top of email at your Wi-Fi enabled office, home or any the thousands of hotspots. 4 You can even download important web pages and view them later offline.

Other Features:
This special edition LifeDrive includes Philips SBC HS520 headphones, Pocket DVD Studio™ Lite and MMPlayer Lite for converting video files and DVDs and playing them on the Palm® LifeDrive™ mobile manager and offers full-screen viewing in portrait or landscape mode.

LifeDrive™ smart file management
Quickly drag and drop thousands of files from your PC onto your LifeDrive™ mobile manager. Your folder structure remains intact so you can easily locate important information when you need it. Plus, select the files you want to keep in sync, and they’ll be automatically updated whenever you sync with your computer.

Bluetooth wireless technology
Browse the web. Or, use Bluetooth to connect to compatible devices nearby—sync with your Bluetooth laptop or dial a Bluetooth phone. 5

More room for MP3 files, photos and video clips
Whether you’re viewing spreadsheets from business associates, listening to songs, or both, the LifeDrive mobile manager gives you room for virtually everything you might take with you. Plus the software you need is preinstalled. View photos and videos with the palmOne Media application. And enjoy all the songs in your personal music collection with on-board support for MP3 files.

Support for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Acrobat
Rehearse your PowerPoint presentation discreetly in an airport. Keep all of your important Word documents a your fingertips. Check the numbers in an Excel spreadsheet. Download and view an Acrobat file. 6 The LifeDrive mobile manager comes with support for native Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

1 3.85GB is user accessible.
2 Within wireless service coverage area only. Bluetooth wireless functionality requires compatible Bluetooth GSM mobile phone, data service from a mobile service provider and an ISP, sold separately. Some Wi-Fi hotspots require fee for usage. Requires a connection to the same network that the networked computers are on. VPN may be required.
3 For corporate email and calendar synchronization with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
4 Some Wi-Fi hotspots require fee for usage. Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or VPN may be required.
5 Requires compatible Bluetooth GSM mobile phone.
6 Acrobat files require conversion step.

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52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Still good after nearly 3 years!, 18 Jun 2006
By L.Moore (Isle of Man) - See all my reviews
Added note: over 2 years later (December 2008) and this little handheld is still going strong. I still use it nearly every day, mostly for reading e-books but also for listening to music, editing Word documents, and looking at the occasional anime whilst on a long train journey etc. I also use it as backup storage for the documents on my laptop, and for wireless internet access when travelling. It has not, so far, ever gone wrong. If, therefore, you're thinking of getting a second hand Lifedrive, I could still recommend it - for such a small and fiddly piece of hardware it has proven surprisingly robust.

June 2006 review:

This review covers the extra bits you get if you splash out on the "Showtime Limited Edition", as well as the Lifedrive itself. I bought this in January 2006, so have had a good few months with it. No-one else has reviewed this particular version, but I notice that it's on sale as much if not more often than the Lifedrive on its own, so I guess some others might find the following helpful:

Firstly, the Livedrive
This is quite wonderful: very attractive with a nice well-built feel to it, spacious, quite capable of a huge range of tasks, and with a good screen. The only actual physical design flaw seems to be that some people have a problem with the on/off slider. I don't, but then I have been quite careful with it. And there's the key: this is not a rough n' ready flash memory device, it's a tiny wee laptop, and its warmth, heaviness, and need to "think" for a while before doing anything do not compare favourably with a high-end flash PDA. If that's what you're used to, you won't like this, and are likely to underestimate its fragility. This is the first, really, of this type of mainstream mini hard-drive PDA, and the latest MP3 players have already outstripped it in terms of HD capacity, smallness, and robustness. Treat it carefully, though, and I've found it works very reliably. I've never had to hard-reset it, and soft resets only occurred when I was playing quite demanding games, at least one of which is known to have a love/hate relationship with Palms. An automatic soft reset is slow and annoying but, as far as I have found, trouble-free, with settings reinstating themselves and a polite message explaining the cause of re-set.

I invested in a Proporta Alu-leather case, which was extravagant but I think has contributed to my good experience (or good luck?) with the Lifedrive. It fits well, turning the Lifedrive into a chunky little book, and offering safe pockets for SD cards etc.

What else do you get for your extra Showtime bucks?

Headphones
Well, Palmone boast that good headphones are provided. This is a matter of opinion! They're a supposedly sporty Philips HS520 set, and yes, they're marginally better than "freebie" quality, but only just, and I really wouldn't recommend them. I reviewed them separately on Amazon, and gave them two stars. These were down to the nice single cord and relatively comfortable shape.. but then, if that's all you're after in a pair of headphones, you might as well get a scarf instead. The sound sucks like a Dyson Mini-turbine - average bass, odd, whispery overtones, and mushy treble. They retail on Amazon for about £7.99, but I don't think they're the best for this price.

Software
This is rather good, although novices to the dark realm of video codecs etc. will find the set-up slightly more daunting than the usual "keep clicking OK" install process. Run the Showtime extra CD, and you can then install first Pocket DVD Studio for Palm, then MMPlayer Lite. It goes like this:
Run the CD, and click the first Install button on the start menu to install PDVD Studio onto your computer. Halfway through the install, it will ask you if you want to install codecs/decoder software. Click OK and you get spirited off to the PQDVD.com download page and given a choice of either XVid or DivX. Choose the XVid download link, and you'll get a helpful but actually rather offputting warning about back-compatibility (which won't apply in most cases anyway), then click OK and a separate program, XVid, will install. Finish that, and you get back to the original Showtime CD start menu.
At this point, you realised that you needn't have cold-sweated and guessed your way through the above process, because it's all explained in the Readme link just to the left of the Install button.

Encouraged, you then click the Readme link FIRST before attempting to install the next Showtime treat, MMPlayer Lite. This will tell you not to bother reading it until you've installed the player and given it a suitably encoded movie to look at. so you click on Install, and the small MMPlayer Lite file is soon poised to load onto the Lifedrive at the next sync.

Watching a video
Having synced and installed MMPlayer Lite onto the actual Lifedrive, you're ready to covert a DVD into a suitable format to view on it. Shove a DVD in the slot, and cancel any programs that normally autostart on the computer (mine uses PowerDVD). Then go to PocketDVD Studio and open the program. It has nice, simple instructions for converting a DVD to .avi format, avoiding spending too much time on the opening menu sequence and credits. The video and sound quality is reasonable. You end up with a large .avi file somewhere on your computer which you can put on the Lifedrive when you next sync. For the record, The Curse of the Were Rabbit (normally 1hr 20-odd minutes) took 1hr10mins to encode at the highest sound and video setting, and ended up at 234Mb. It looks pretty good on the Lifedrive, although 15 fps is a little bit jerky-looking during action sequences.

Phew. It's a bit of a marathon both setting all this up and going to the effort of converting things to .avi format. Of course you can download some .avi files, in which case you won't need Pocket DVD Studio in order to watch them on the Lifedrive with MMPlayer Lite.

The Lifedrive's screen is just about OK for watching a DVD-length video, and manages action as well as cartoons. The Matrix stretched the 15 frames per second deal to its limits, but the Simpsons acquitted themselves quite well. Oddly enough, it does really well with pop videos, which is more than can be said with teeny tiny MP3 player screens.

Verdict:
*Get a Lifedrive if you like a bit of video with your music, and can't be bothered to carry an MP3 player as well as a PDA. Also get one if you want something that will hold a lot of pictures etc. and play games like Mazera or Legacy.
*Don't get it just for the storage space and work-related office-type programs. That's what speedy flash-drive PDAs with 2Gb SD expansion cards are for.
Don't bother with paying extra for Showtime. There are lots of programmes which convert video files of one sort or another to .avi format, and lots of possible ways to view these and other video files on Palm devices. Some of these are free.
If you're going to get a Lifedrive, get one on its own, add some suitable software, and get a separate set of decent headphones from Messrs Koss or Sennheiser.



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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Mine also died and will not reset, 28 Jan 2008
By Dr. W. Nicholson - See all my reviews
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My Lifedrive died after a year and will not reset. I've tried the soft reset, hard reset and hard reset with the Lifedrive charging in its cradle. Palm support is non-existent. They gave a lame suggestion (the hard reset in the cradle) when I first contacted them and now they have not responded to my follow up message. In addition the form on their website to request support has stopped working. I have to say the address book was really handy and it was useful to be able to read e-books on the PDA. However, I can't possibly recommend getting a Lifedrive because of the poor support and the danger of losing important data which cannot readily be transferred to a non-Palm PDA even if you have been doing regular synchronizations with a desktop computer.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Nothing great, 2 Sep 2007
I bought this PDA almost a year and a half ago, and have found it frustrating to use from day one. The operating system is slow and unresponsive. It is impossible to view reasonable sized videos on this. It can play music relatively well although quality is lacking and the battery drains quickly. It crashes atleast twice a day and is a nightmare when using the internet, although the Wi-Fi connection is usually fine the device cannot handle the amount of data it recieves.

It is not worth the money. With only 32mb of inbuilt RAM it is not suitable for entertainment purposes, and is chunky compared to its cheaper rivals which are even cheaper.

Verdict: Stay away.
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