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Shortly after Palm's Treo 650 fell victim to the European Union's new Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) pollution law, the company's LifeDrive followed suit. Today, it appears the Mobile Manager may be on its last legs. Period.

Palm's Web site now lists LifeDrive—the company's last handheld with the palmOne logo—as "no longer available," another step towards the PDA graveyard from the "out of stock" listing that had previously been there.

When Palm introduced the LifeDrive back in May of 2005, it was supposed to the first a serious of new products under the Mobile Manager banner. It didn't set the stagnant PDA market on fire as Palm had hoped. So since then no additional devices in the series have appeared.

Not only that, it has been about a year and half since Palm released its last non cellular-wireless handheld, as it continues to focus on the smartphone market. By comparison, in that time, the company released five Treos: the Treo 700w, Treo 700p, Treo 700wx, Treo 680 and Treo 750.

Although the LifeDrive has apparently been discontinued, you can still pick it up in some places.

LifeDrive features a 4-gigabyte (GB) Hitachi Microdrive, a high-resolution 320 x 480 pixel display, and Bluetooth 1.1 personal area networking. With the handheld's high-resolution display, you can view documents in both portrait (vertical) and landscape (horizontal) modes, and play back video using the whole screen. It has a Secure Digital slot for extra memory.

Additional LifeDrive specifications include:

 416 MHz XScale processor

 65.2 MB of RAM for running the applications stored on the hard drive

 USB 2.0 for fast file transfers

 Virtual Graffiti 2 character-entry area

 Five-way navigation control

 Rectangular group of software activation buttons

It measures 4.76 x 2.87 x 0.74 inches and weighs 6.8 ounces. There's also a 1600 mAH Lithium Ion battery that isn't swappable.