Palm dumps LifeDrive PDA

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Palm will no longer make the LifeDrive PDA it launched less than two years ago, a move that highlights two trends in the increasingly shrinking market for PDAs.

The addition of cellular communications to PDA-like devices and the advent of increasingly inexpensive flash memory led Palm to drop its LifeDrive PDA, according to company officials. The company instead has focused its recent efforts on expanding its Treo line of smartphones that combine cellular communications, e-mail and Web browsing.