I don't see how handhelds are any different than MP3 players? Both require low power consumption and ruggedness. If MP3 players can do it, why not PDAs?

Flash cards are nice, but limited storage. I have one for my camera. It holds 32MB. The hard drive in the MP3 player I'm looking at holds 20GB. If they slapped a bigger screen and an operating system on it, it would make an awesome PDA.

Michelle

>Do to the nature of handhelds (low power, needed to be rugged) you won't see many hard drives. Flash cards are great. They work just like a disk drive. Plug them in and you get a new folder off of the root of the OS.
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>That said, IBM has made a microdrive for Palms
>http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/micro/index.htm