Although palmOne is adamant about not calling this a PDA (it’s a Mobile Manager, for God’s sake ;-)), it’s only logical to use their previous high-end PDAs—the Tungsten|T3 and T5—as the starting point for looking at the LifeDrive’s specs.

Before proceeding to describe what’s new, let’s list down what’s not new. The processor is the same as the one on the T5: a 416-megahertz Intel Xscale processor. The screen is the same as that of the T3 and the T5, as far as I can tell. Good, but nothing great. The stock apps are all there, with the addition of a new music player (Pocket Tunes), a Wi-Fi connection manager, and the new Camera Companion app for transferring photos from an SD card to the LifeDrive. The memory, at 64MB, is the same non-volatile kind found in the T5 and Treo 650.

The hard drive—an IBM MicroDrive—is the biggest thing about the LifeDrive, of course. The drive has a capacity of 4 gigabytes, but “only