palmOne Introduces LifeDrive,
Its First Mobile Manager Product

New Device Features Hitachi 4GB Hard Drive, LifeDrive Smart File Management, Built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

MILPITAS, Calif., May 18, 2005 - Venturing beyond its well-known focus on the handheld and smartphone markets, palmOne, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLMO) today introduced the LifeDrive™ mobile manager, an innovative product that fuses business productivity tools and entertainment applications. Designed for people with a significant volume of digital information, the LifeDrive mobile manager offers 4GB of hard-drive storage (3.85GB user available), a large 320x480 high-resolution color screen, and wireless access through built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® wireless technologies.⁽¹⁾

With 3.85GB of usable storage, LifeDrive mobile manager users can store and access all of the following on a single device⁽²⁾:

• 1,200 office documents;
• 6,000 emails;
• 1,000 photos;
• 300 songs;
• 2.5 hours of video;
• 50 voicemails;
• 10,000 contacts; and
• 10,000 appointments.

(1) An Internet service provider account, email account and subscription may be required for Internet and email access. These services may need to be purchased separately and additional charges may apply. Wireless access via Bluetooth requires a compatible Bluetooth phone and carrier subscription, not included.

(2) Numbers are average; actual capacity depends on the user's actual stored files.

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