PalmOne Unveils 4GB LifeDrive Design

Venturing beyond its well-known focus on the handheld and smartphone markets, palmOne Canada today introduced the LifeDrive mobile manager, an innovative product that fuses business productivity tools and entertainment applications.

Designed for people with a significant volume of digital information, the LifeDrive mobile manager offers 4GB of hard-drive storage, a large 320x480 high-resolution colour screen, and wireless access through built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless technologies.

Consumers today demand more from their mobile devices as their digital information continues to increase in size and scope.

Many people want easy access to all of their essential documents, email and wireless web access.

They want the ability to entertain themselves in a free moment, and to share personalized content, such as photos, home movies or their entire MP3 collection.

The ability to do these things in an all-in-one device has become a reality with mobile managers.

"LifeDrive mobile manager comes at an inflection point in the market, when people are ready for more advanced devices that meet their growing mobile-computing needs," said Michael Moskowitz, president of palmOne Canada.

"LifeDrive is versatile. For the business executive, it's a personal mobile briefcase; for the photo enthusiast, it's a camera companion.