Palm Mobile Manager(Brushed silver)

I had this device for 2 days now. My first palm is Palm 3X many years ago. Then I got iPaq, Zire, and another Zire, Blackberry and finally the lifedrive. I bought it through eBay and while waiting for it to arrive, I read a lot of review on the Internet...

I got worried because many people got upset about how this device crash often. I have used it for over 1 day now and couldn't understand how it would crash. Maybe I'm a lucky person? So far it only crash once when I was running many things at

I like how Palm Synch with Outlook so all the contacts, appointments, and todo have a backup and ways to view and edit on the go.

Especially with Palm system the ability to view and edit with a touch screen. It out perform the Blackberry system or Windows Mobile system. I can talk on the phone and write down appointment with one hand with a Palm system. With blackberry, you need two hand in order to put down appointments, phone number and name. However, on a blackberry device, you can type faster than palm.

I do regullarly back up all my documents on desktop to a small USB Flash Drive. So I was hoping I can have a device that can synch all my documents and have a mobile back up as well as view and edit them.

LifeDrive finally is the perfect solution. I now have it synch with all my business documents. So anywhere I go, I have my complete documents for my business as well as view them, edit them and sync them. It is very POWERFUL!

It also come with Wifi connecion, so I can get it to go on Internet surf the web and sending and recieve messages with attatchments, PDF, Word file and etc. Something Blackberry have some trouble. Blackberry if you buy software can read and edit office files and pdf files, but because it doesn't have a touch screen it's a major limitation. Also the screen can not go sideway. Blackberry can do other thing but really limit to messaging. And best at messsaging.

Lifedrive also have the ability to access my network sharing file through Wifi. That make it even more powerful. All my collecion of photos, music, documents, are all in there I can download any time I want anywhere in my house.

I also use it to load photos from my digital camera and the picture on it look wonderful with very sharp display and able to view it horizonatally. Very good way to show pictures to friends and clients cause really on a digital camera, the LCD is just too small.

That was one major problem with iPaq where I couldn't view the screen sideway. Viewing documents and picture sideway, make it a lot better.

I was a bit disappointed that this device couldn't read native PDF file. You need to convert and read it in a special program. So I was looking on the net. And guess what it cost money. But lucky, I found an alternative. After you install this program, you can read any PDF file just like on a desktop. Just click on it. It's call PalmPDF. It's a free program and can be found on the Handago website.

Major disapointment with this device is the battery life time and how to charge this thing. You can not charge it through USB cable like Zire do. You need to use the special adaptor in order to charge this thing. Also it use a special cable, you can't just plug any usb cable. I read the manual, it actually recommend people to charge it every day. I really hope the battery life can be much longer like something you don't need to charge for over 10 days at least.

In conclusion, considering its ability to wifi, view, edit sync . I give it 4 *