PDAs have hard drives (see link) as do MP3 players, but it is the exception.
I'll agree though that flash cards are still too expensive.

>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?
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>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.
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>Michelle
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>>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