The RoHS has just shown its ugly head another time. This time, the affected handheld is the – much hated – Palm LifeDrive. We covered how Palm stopped shipping Treo 650’s a few weeks ago, and now, information starts to get through that the Palm LifeDrive is affected, too.
Palm has not yet mande an announcement on a successor through. Personally, I am not sure if Palm already gave up on mobile managers like the Palm LifeDrive, as they essentially are a good idea. The current one IMHO was cripled due to the use of a hard disk as RAM, but otherwise, had good potential. In fact, I almost bought a Palm LifeDrive once instead of a notebook!
What speaks for Palm having discontinued its LifeDrive series is that the big marketing blah which was made at the beginning has almost completely stopped – this is a bad sign; we already saw it happening with Palm.net.
However, on the other side, the incredible amount of marketing blah makes it hard to beleive that Palm already gave up on this innovative idea!
What do you think?
via BrightHand.
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Since the entire PDA-line is dead, there will be no LifeDrive2
What makes you sday the entire PDA line is dead?
People have been saying this for the past 10 years. I suppose that some day it will become true, but why today?
Mp3 players existed long before the iPod. But the iPod increased the market greatly because it intorduced seemingly-endless storage capacity to the category. Now the iPod leads the market into new features, such as video playback etc.
What PDAs need are this kind of “killer feature” that helps them break into the general consumer market, not just the geek and eorporate markets.
(I personally think that “killer feature” could be VNC over some ubiquitous wireless protocol, like a cellular protocol. The general public would understand and love a way to access their home or office PC from anywhere using a tiny pocket device. No more finding poor “mobile” versions of your apps to run copies of your files — instead run your “full” apps on your original files anytime, anywhere!)
No, there will be PDAs, but no more PDAs made by Palm. They focus on the smartphone-market.
There is not one proof that Palm is not making PDAs in the future. It’s officially known that they prefer Smartphones at present, but no one knows for sure about PDAs. Who knows… they might come up with one soon.
Ok, you have your sources, I have mine.