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It’s no secret that PalmOne has been readying a new model, and that leaks have been coming like rain in Seattle. But now, the hat is off, the non-disclosure agreement has lifted and we can present you with an in-depth review of PalmOne’s newest flagship handheld, the. Design and Construction Left, PalmOne LifeDrive.

The outer casing of the device is partly a flat aluminum, mixed in with areas made of plastic. Though the device itself is rectangular, the back side is curved enough to make holding it more comfortable than would be immediately apparent. Its design is very contrary to the smooth, rounded look of recent PalmOne devices, taking a harder and more squared off styling. The application buttons are broad, flat, and utterly rectangular. They take up most of the bottom front of the device, curving around the directional pad in the center. Their size makes them easy to press despite being pressed up against each other and the directional pad.

The only catch about the front buttons is that you can sometimes trigger one of them if you try to tap an object on the system bar with a bare finger, particularly with the thumb. It seems impossible to do, but it can happen, because there’s no border between the screen and the top of the buttons. Or perhaps I just have large fingertips. The directional pad is well built, and has a good response in all directions.

Unlike the impression of it given in some pre-release images, the depression in the center isn’t all that deep, just a gentle curve to tell your fingers where they are on the pad. PalmOne has, miraculously, finally listened to their users and installed a status LED in the Lifedrive. The LED, sitting dead center along the top front of the device, serves several functions: it flashes green for WiFi activity, amber for hard drive access, solid amber for charging, and solid green for a full battery charge. It will also flash for alarms if the device is set to silent mode. Looking down from the top, we see the stylus, SDIO slot, and power switch. Also present is the infrared port, lurking in the unmarked space over to the left of the power switch. The stylus is a bit unusual.

Unlike a typical stylus, where you would pull it out of the silo, the LD stylus requires you to press down on it first. This triggers a spring-mechanism in the stylus, popping up the end to allow for removal. Yes, it’s the return of the spring-loaded clickable stylus. While it has the moderate benefit of being snazzy looking, I’m not sure I like wondering whether my stylus will wear out with extended use.

Otherwise, the stylus is a well-built stainless steel barrel, and has a catch residing in the silo to keep it snapped in place when not in use. Curiously, the SDIO slot on the Lifedrive looks far wider than is normal.

An SD card fits in perfectly, but it still seems abnormally long. I believe that it’s an optical effect caused by the two small indented bars on either end of the slot, which would seem at first glance to be continuations of the slot. The power slider is fairly straightforward. Slid towards the center of the device, it powers the Lifedrive on and off. Slid outward, it snaps and holds into the ‘locked’ position. Unlike the Sony version of a three-way power switch, the ‘locked’ position doesn’t put the Lifedrive into a screen-off hold mode.

Instead, it functions more like the Axim X50’s hold switch, stopping all input from the and buttons. The Lifedrive will then carry on as it was, cheerfully oblivious to any tappings or clickings. You do have to be careful sliding the switch out of the locked position, to avoid powering off the unit.

Pray tell, PalmOne, what was wrong with the traditional power button? It just seems that of late, not a single PalmOne model has had a nice, classic power button along the lines of the m500 series. First it was top-mounted micro-mush buttons, now three-way sliders. I just have to ask: what’s wrong with something that’s comfortable to press and makes a pleasant clicking sound?

The Lifedrive’s headphone jack has been moved to the bottom, across the docking connector from the reset button. Normally this would present a problem if you were to put the LD in a cradle but still wanted access to the headphone jack. However, the PalmOne cradle that’s compatible with the Lifedrive has an audio-out jack built right into the base. The docking connector is the new PalmOne ‘Athena’ multiconnector, the same as on all their other recent models. On the left side are two additional buttons.

The upper button is for the voice recording feature, placed right below the tiny microphone holes. Midway down the case, the second button now performs the portrait/landscape screen rotation, whose control was removed from the system bar and replaced by WiFi. I found the side buttons to be rather mushy and not suited to comfortable use. They tend to melt into the case when you press on them, and you have to exert a considerable measure of force to activate them. The orientation button doesn’t matter as much, because it’s not a function that would see such regular use, but the voice recorder button would matter much more. One thing that you won’t find on the unit is a vibrating alarm, because there isn’t one.

Presumably, even if PalmOne wanted to include the feature, the safety of the microdrive was incompatible with a vibrating alarm. For some reason, in using the LD, I ended up with something of a deja vu sensation.

Upon reflection, I eventually realized what the Lifedrive reminded me of. It’s similar in size to the, and the light metal casing and styling enhance the resemblence. It even has a similar type of 3-way power switch, and a collapsible stylus, similar to the stylus on the Sony.

There’s actually been some speculation online that the Lifedrive is really a co-opted Sony design, but I tend to doubt this. The button and directional design doesn’t seem remotely Sony, and I would think that the amount of retooling a Sony design would have to go through to become the Lifedrive would be impractical. More than likely, it’s simply the surface similarity, causing that deja vu reaction. Overall, the Lifedrive’s design and construction is not bad.

I’ve seen better and more inspired designs, but the basic concept of the Lifedrive forces it into something of a cubioid shape. The casing feels good, and despite a few questionable points it’s well built.

Hello, I am new here, so if I am at the wrong spot, please correct me! I have a Palm Tungsten T3 (also with 15 years data.), Palm Desktop 6.2, Hot Sync manager 7 and Windows 8.64. On startup of the PC I get a message: 'HotSync Manager serial connection failed to initiate (The selected port, Com 4, is not available at this time.

HotSync manager will open this port when it becomes available)' I downloaded and installed the Aceeca driver. Installed Bluetooth and there is communication between the PC and the Palm. When Hotsyncing, there comes a message on the Palm: 'unable to initiate HotSync operation because the port is in use by another application.' But, after hotsync, the files Address, Datebook, Memopad and ToDo of the Palm have been sent to the PC, and can be seen in 'Documents-PalmOSDesktop-A', with file extensions '.mdb'.

Nothing shows in the Desktop, however. I have been struggling with this already for almost a week, have tried all your good advice, but to no avail. Would be very happy for the magic hint! Best Regards. Hello Gabbawabba, Thank you so much for your advice. You made my day (week)! Works like a charm.

On other sites they said that USB did not work for Palm anymore and that BT was the way to go. Well, now I finally have this cute little BT stick, maybe can use it for something else.

The procedure to load Outlook with my Palmdata will have to wait a little bit. First I have to catch up with family life; they have been missing me for so many days. When I have tried the Outlook thing I will come back to you with the results. For now many thanks from a happy PalmT3. Good Day WyreNut: I have been directed to your post, here, as a possible solution to my challenge. My LifeDrive will not 'HOTSYNC' on my new WINDOWS 8 computer.

It never did anything but work flawlessly with my old WINDOWS XP machine (it crashed and died). In reading this post it is directed at VISTA and WINDOWS 7, nothing about WINDOWS 8. To when you visit the Aceeca website there is caution directed to 'use it but at your own risk.' To an older person, as me, that causes me to be anxious. Please offer any suggestion.

As I mentioned, when I got this new computer, I loaded the LifeDrive program and it would not 'hotsync,' too there was a popup window that menitoned something about not being able to download something or connect to the Internet. After several tries, I took the machine over to the local computer class and asked to be helped in UNINSTALLING the LifeDrive program.

And that is where I am at, at this pointt in time. Thank you for you post and I look forward to any direction and advise. Bruce, the third post of the thread is from someone who has successfully used the drivers with Win 8! Others in the thread report success also. Sometimes it's best to read an entire thread to gain more knowledge before asking for help. I believe the 'LifeDrive program' will not work on newer OS's. My suggestion is to follow the directions, and install the driver.

It's 100% sure HotSync will not work without them on any 64bit system! Since you've made an attempt at installing a program not supported by Win8, I'd suggest trying a 'clean uninstall' and starting over again. These instructions are not Win8 specific.

Since I don't own a Win8 computer, I can't offer first-hand advice.:( These instructions are for Vista but should work for Win7. You should first make a copy of your data to have just in case something happens. You can find your data files by going to Start - Documents - Palm OS Desktop. Highlight your Palm Desktop username and right click and copy. Then go to your PC desktop right click on a blank spot and select paste.

If this is the first time you are installing Palm desktop and encountering a problem, skip the previous step. If you are not concerned about your data at this point, skip the next step. Now you want to uninstall Palm Desktop and remove everything that has to do with Palm Desktop from your computer. Go to the following locations on the PC and delete the folders listed below. C: Program Files Palm or Palm One C: Users Vista Login Name appdata local virtualstore Program Files Palm or PalmOne C: Users Vista Login Name appdata.Note you may need to view hidden folders to get to appdata.

To do that go into your control panel and open folder options. Go to view tab and uncheck hide hidden files. When using Palm desktop 6.2, look in my documents or documents and delete the PalmOS desktop folder.

This is the location of the PD 6.2 data files. Once this is done you will need to delete some registry keys from your PC Operating System. Word of warning, going here and deleting the wrong thing can cause your PC from starting up, crashing and deletion of programs and data. If you feel you are unsure of yourself, see if you have a friend that can help you or a PC technician that you can pay to help you.

This procedure will show them everything they need to delete. To make sure we have a good copy of the current registry, we need to do a backup of the Registry. Go to start on the PC, in the search field type 'regedit.exe' without quotes. Highlight COMPUTER, go to File - Export. Should pop up with a Save As box.

Current location is fine, should be in My Documents or save to a location you will remember. In the file name on the bottom type 'backuptodaysdate' i.e. Next, the hard part. The easiest way to make sure your working with the correct key, highlight the key i.e.

Palm quick install, and press delete on your keyboard. It will ask you, are you sure. Do the same thing for all keys below. If you make a mistake, stop what you are doing.

And call a PC technician. BUT do not turn off your computer. The reg keys are as follows (Note: some of theses reg keys will not be here but if they are delete them). HKEYCURRENTUSER Software U.S. Robotics Palm Quick Install. HKEYCURRENTUSER Software U.S. Robotics PalmOne File Transfer.

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HKEYCURRENTUSER Software U.S. Robotics Pilot Desktop. HKEYCURRENTUSER Software Palm.

HKEYCURRENTUSER Software Palm, Inc. HKEYCURRENTUSER Software PalmDesktopAutorun.

HKEYCURRENTUSER Software palmOne. HKEYCURRENTUSER Software PalmSource. HKEYLOCALMACHINE Software PalmSource or anything else that says palm Next reboot your computer. Then reinstall your Palm desktop from the CD and do a hotsync. If it asks you for a username, enter the name that is on your device in the upper right corner of the hotsync screen. Whew, WyreNut that is a lot to digest.

The 3rd post you refrence, is that the one from patticlark? Your constructive direction regarding reading the entire thread did not go unheard.

You mention to do an UNINSTALL, I think I did that. Then you suggest 'starting over,' does that mean to reinstall the LifeDrive disc and then do the Aceeca thing? Or leave out the LifeDrive attempt at install and go to the Aceeca pdf instruction and go from there? Also, regarding any data. When my old compter died it took with it my data. I have not been able to locate anyone that can retreive any data from that machine.

All the data that is in this LifeDrive is sitting right inside of the unit. Speaking of that, do you happen to know of a unit I could consider upgrading to once I get the data out of this one? This LifeDrive and that computer have a lot of my life in them. So it is important to me to try what ever I can to recover, at least this data. Since there Palm is no longer around I should try and look for something to upgrade to, eh? When the LifeDrive program was on this machine, I think I remember seeing that it was version 4.1.something. In your reply you mention a version 6.2.But when I click different screens on the LifeDrive I come up with one screen that has INFO; Palm OS Garnet v.5.4.8.

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And another that has APPLICATIONS v.4.5.2P. Are we on the same page? By the way, I thank you very much for being so patient with me. Being 72 y/o and scared of computers isn't helping me. You and your knowledge are, for that I am very appreciative. I contacted the Activity Center, they have computer classes there. The instructor isn't up on WINDOWS 8 but has invited me up to go through everything that you have offered.

Good Day WyreNut: I was able to HotSync the LifeDrive with this new computer. I love it when your instructions say to 'unpack them.' Me, I double clicked the file and thought that was 'unpacked.' Then when I kept reading through the thread, as you told me. I found a remark that mentioned that another file would appear.

That hadn't happened to me. Until I right clicked the file and found EXTRACT ALL! Then things started to go according to instructions. Dummy me, I didn't know what 'unpack meant.' And a lot of other lil things that finally fell into place. Hey, again, thank you so very much. And thank you everyone for being patient with me.

I was just very anxious, very scared, and basically didn't know with to do. Thank you all. It seems like I have been at this challenge for ever. Anyone have any good suggestions to replace this LifeDrive with? There are not any places that service them any more. No parts to replace anything with.

My screen is old. And I don't ever care to go through this again. So, I guess I need something current. I sure liked and will miss the Palm unit.

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Expecially the contact part. God, you could put anything and everything in a contact listing. Be well, Bruce Brookings, OR. You're an amazing person, very knowledgeable. I was very fortunate to have crossed your path.

Like I said, you were helping me, I don't know diddly about computers - let alone a slang word. To me, when I saw EXTRACT ALL, I said, 'let's try it!' Badda Bang, Badda Bing things started happening. I'm sure the average person that knows computers will understand 'unpack.' There is nothing you need to address. The most amazing and wonderful fact is your are here and so willing to share your knowledge and help. Be well, Bruce Brookings, OR.