Shed a tear, if you would, for the PDA, which appears to have no future unless it's connected to a cell phone.
Latest evidence is Palm's decision to kill off the LifeDrive, the $400 uber-organizer released in 2005 with a 4GB hard drive, WiFi and other features that have since become trivially common.
Palm spokesman Jim Christensen said LifeDrive funtions have gradually been absorbed by Treos and other gadgets."In many ways LifeDrive functionality has been incorporated in new handheld and smartphone products," he said. "This is something we said would happen over time."