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User Submitted Palm LifeDrive Mobile Manager Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-02-07 piece of junk The Lifedrive is an absolute ripe off. It's no wonder it cannot be purchased on the Palmone web site. It's like having a regular pda with 64MB of storage attached to an uncooperative 4GB SD card. Most third party software doesn't recognize this space, therefore it's difficult to download directly the this extra storage and the device space limits what you can transfer there. The moblie manager allows you to drag and drop files directly into the Lifedrive area, but then you can't find them. It crashes often, gets hot during use, and you have to buy the sync cradle separately. It come with a "sync cord" that causes the unit to fall or get knocked off the work station. The "hard case" is a piece of thin,flimsy. tin with rubber on the back. The unit is slow, and difficult to work with. It's like having dial up in your palm. I don't know when I've been more disappointed in a product. I'm sending my lifedrive and that worthless tin case back for a refund. Date: 2007-02-06 Perfect, Don't add a phone The Palm Life Driver is so easy, versatile (stores files, Music,photos,memos, addresses, etc, etc, etc) and lots of memory. Don't mess it up by adding a phone. You'll want this way longer than your next phone server. Date: 2007-01-17 Palm Lifedrive Great product, but unless you need this much storage, you may want to look at Treo... Wish it was a bit lighter, but for all that it does, I can't complain. Date: 2007-01-16 Great Product What More Can I say, It's a Palm and it Drives My Life. Easy to use and very compatible. If it could only zip my wifes lip and mow the lawn it would be a super Palm. Date: 2007-01-14 Exceptional start to a new concept for Palm After much consideration of the many reviews online about the Life Drive I took the plunge. My choice came down to the TX and the Life Drive. I chose the Life Drive for it's integrated 4GB (3.85 usable) hard drive. That translates into little less then 40x the usable storage space of the TX. It's been widely reported that the Life Drive is much slower, bulkier, and prone to inconvenient crashes and unreliability. However, as with any new product there are bugs and then there are fixes. Palm as released significant fixes to address these problems. All I have to say is, I am glad I waited. I got mine online for less then $240 plus shipping. For that price it was a terrific deal. I don't think I would feel that way had I paid the full $499 or even the new price of $399. For what its worth, the Life Drive is slower then the previous Palms but that's to be expected with a 4 Gig hard drive that has to spin up. I've owned the Handsprings Visor in the past so I am familiar with Palm Handhelds.I've experienced application launch lags from a fraction of a second to up to 2 seconds at most. It's still much faster then any PC. This thing is my do everything on the go device. I LOVE IT! Both it's WiFi and Bluetooth are incredibly fast on my wireless network. I have to say that the Life Drive not only does everything, it does it very well. I note that some third party applications occasionally cause soft resets. Data has never been lost, and none of the applications that came with Palm have ever rest the unit, only the apps I've added. The touch screen is colorful, bright and beautiful to behold. The batteries last about 5-6 hours with the screen set to its dimmest (Still ample backlighting).I give it 4 stars only because every new concept has room for improvement, the Life Drive is a very good start. I'd like to see a 8GB or more, Compact Flash in place of the Micro Hard Disk for speed and integrated TOMTOM GPS! Lets upgrade the battery to 2300mAh instead of 1600mAh and make it user replacable. Then we would have perfection! Then it would be worth paying $499 or more.
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