Palm LifeDrive Premature.

I bought a Palm Lifedrive. A very nice machine. Elegant, simple, pretty.

And it doesn't work. Every time I tried to turn on wifi, I got a crash at some line number of some c program. (sigh).

So I wrapped it up and took it back.

I don't have time to mess around with software products that haven't been tested adequately.

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I took the unit back to the store. They tried it out, and it worked perfectly. I had done a factory reset just before packing it up, so I surmised that it was the hotsync with my PC that had screwed it up. So I figured I'd give it another shot. I tried all kinds of wifi activities, and it worked great until I hotsynced it again. Then the symptom reasserted itself.

While I was playing with it, I found that there are some features that I realy like, like the SMS manager. I can send text messages through the bluetooth connection with my phone. Cool.

Next I suppose I should reinstall from the CD. Bleah.

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Phooey! I reinstalled from the CD, and got the same symptom. Something on the Palm-One CD is corrupting the wifi driver on the lifedrive. Bah! I've spent too many hours on this. Back to the store it goes for the last and final time.

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