This could be quite big. I think the extra capacity will be put to good use and start infringing on the iPod monopoly.
PalmOne took the wraps off a new model with the cleverest enhancement yet: a hard drive.
This device, called the LifeDrive, is the first hard-drive palmtop ever released outside of Japan; in retrospect, the idea seems obvious. After all, hard drives are already small enough to spin away inside iPods and camcorders. And Palm organizers can already open and edit Microsoft Office documents, show pictures and videos, and play music. Palmtops could be the new laptops, if it weren't for their limited storage capacity.
Spinning away inside the LifeDrive is a silent, one-inch, four-gigabyte hard drive. You can hook it up to a Mac or PC and fill it with files that you want to take on the road. (You're not limited to files that the LifeDrive can actually open, like Office and multimedia files; you can also use the LifeDrive as a data bucket that simply shuttles big files around from computer to computer.)
The device also features Bluetooth, as well as more importantly WiFi support. Check out the following reviews:
PC Mag
Small Biz Pipeline
Yahoo
The Gadgeteer
