PalmOne has finally acknowledged the LifeDrive, calling it the first in a series of ‘Mobile Manager’ devices that will sit alongside the Zire, Tungsten, and Treo units. The Register quotes a PalmOne spokesperson describing the Mobile Manager series as something “designed for customers who are eager to take full advantage of the trend toward ‘digital everything’ – from documents and email to music, images and video, as standalone files or in organised folders.” That sounds perfectly pedestrian.
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/pdas/palm/index.php#palmone-lifedrive-pops-up-on-amazon-102444
Hard drives in PDAs are a good thing, and we applaud PalmOne for being the first major vendor to do so (Sharp’s Japan-only Zaurus SL-C3000 beat them to the punch by a few months), but like other hardware vendors out there looking for a problem for which to sell a solution—we’re looking at you, Nokia—the ‘manage your lifestyle’ crap just sounds like the same thing we’ve been hearing for the last few years. That said, we’ll give them a chance—maybe they’ve got some fancy, streamlined interface that’s going to change the way we manage our multimedia.
https://gizmodo.com/sharp-zaurus-sl-c3000-23468
PalmOne hails the ‘Mobile Manager’ [TheRegister]
