No More LifeDrive in the EU

From Brighthand:

Recently, Palm, Inc. announced it was no longer shipping the Treo 650 to Europe because this smartphone doesn't comply with new rules regarding hazardous substances in electronic devices.

What wasn't announced was that this also applies to the LifeDrive Mobile Manager.

Like the Treo 650, this handheld does not conform to the European Union's new Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) rules, therefore Palm stopped shipping it to Europe as of July 1.

According to a company spokesperson, it is still perfectly legal to buy a LifeDrive anywhere in the E.U., but Palm can no longer bring new models in.

Palm could have continued to ship either of these models to Europe if it had made component changes to them, but it elected to not do so.

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