Palm T|X

Advantages: Modernized for communications
Disadvantages: Steps backward for user-friendliness

A step backward from the Tungsten T, my previous palm. The T/X has not moved forward, design-wise. And cut some useful features. No charge-indicator LED. Screen less responsive. It seems like its forever resetting itself, losing a number of settings along the way. Bottom of screen permanent virtual buttons are not user-configurable! BAD! This is not a happy camper! And this: now extra $ for cradle, which is badly designed, with insufficient place ...
...full-time glow. T/X has no "back" button, like on Sony palms, that was a brilliant function for navigation. Tungsten spring-loaded stylus was lightning fast to deploy, even in hardshell case. Latter case also allowed headphones. Now T/X has done away with both possibilities. Awkward to use. And apparently a slower processor than in its immediate predecessor. Seems like they are slowly closing down their business. Perhaps because of Treo phones? Too ... Read review

Advantages: handheld pc, smaller than laptop
Disadvantages: no camera or would have 5 stars

...converts it digitally. Palm dock allows you to synch with your PC and charge your palm which last upto 2 weeks for me as it turns itself off when not in use. Its quite slimline with a big screen, and navigation controls are very neat it even finds hotspots automatically. ... Read review

Advantages: It has loads of applications for every day business
Disadvantages: Software quite User-unfriendly

I received the PALM T/X as a present and at the time the only data bank / portable personal data tool I had was an old Casio personal agenda. The PALM T/X is a very good device to store personal data, like Calendar, Phone book, etc. Also, I soon bought a 2Gb memory card, which allowed to greatly upgrade the device standard memory. One issue I found is the memory slot: in fact, there is no protection for the meory card, which may be accidentally ...
...example when transporting the Palm in the pocket. Other not-good characteristic is the software interface, which is quite User-unfriendly and old-looking and when accessing some applications it does not allow to close them. Time to time I observed crashes, however, it is easy to recover from them. Other than that, this is a very useful and good device, which, despite its drawbacks, I recommend. ... Read review

Advantages: Large viewing area, Large memory, Wi-Fi. Fast
Disadvantages: No microphone.

Having had a Palm Tungsten T, for about 3 years I decided to update, and went for the Palm T|X, and what a piece of kit! it blows anything else I have used out of the water! I use it for work and pleasure and would be totally lost with out it (It also can be used as a Sat Nav system as well) With its large viewing area it's great to surf the web via the built in Wi-Fi or through your GPRS phone via bluetooth. The screen can be rotated to landscape ...
...a film. Or just listen to some music with the built in MP3 player software. The only thing that it does not do is record memos like the Palm Tungsten T can. But with all the other benfits I can live with out that. Would recommend to anyone! ... Read review

Advantages: Great Interface, Palm; Easy-To-Use-Buttons.
Disadvantages: Not Windows. Palm has Hotsync, but it is not very good or fast.

...to you in the easy-to-use palm interface. Right from the old school palms, with black and white screens, Palm has used their icon-based operating system to sell their well designed product to us! Handspring combined the power of a phone to some palm-handspring PDAs and that worked well, but Palms focus was changing. They wanted to make easy-to-use products that people would buy because they look great and perform fast and because they were Palm! ... Read review

Advantages: Powerful, large memory
Disadvantages: Still cant get Bluetooth sync working

...As someone who constantly forgets meeting addresses phones numbers I decided maybe it was about time I bought something the might be able to help me organise my life. I chose Palm over Pocket pc because as an Apple Mac user Palm offered Mac Syncronisation oug of the box (more on this later). The Palm I decided on was the Tungsten T5 Product Description PalmOne Tungsten T5 Dimensions (WxDxH) 7.8 cm x 1.5 cm x 12 cm Weight 145 g Processor Intel XScale 416 MHz Product Type Handheld Audio Output Speaker(s) Display TFT active matrix - transflective - 16-bit (64k colours) Input Device Touch-screen, 5-way navigation button, stylus Operating System Palm OS 5.4 ROM 256 MB System Requirements for PC Connection Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP, Apple MacOS X 10.2 - 10.3 Wireless Connectivity IrDA, Bluetooth User... Read review

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Advantages: Small, cheap, quality.
Disadvantages: None.

...OK, so first the obvious - The 'U' in N650U means 'USB', so unless you know you have a USB port on your computer, don't go here. I have a family member who would like to steal my new scanner, but he can't :-) I read Ciao, and I read DooYoo looking for advice on a good scanner, and both sites pointed me at the Canon N650U. Not because it is the absolute best, but because it is: a) Sensibly priced. It can be had for between £50 and £70 depending on where its bought, and what discount vouchers you have in your sweaty palm this week. b) Better than a home user is ever likely to need. 1200x600 doesn't sound like much these days, but it is all you are ever likely to need unless you plan on doing photo-editing at a professional level. c) Pretty quick. With my old parallel scanner, I could go and make a cuppa while I waited... Read review

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Advantages: Small, 8Mb memory hard to fill
Disadvantages: Need to travel with a recharger

...Think about it. What do you really want from a palmtop ? On a screen that will fit into your pocket, do you really want colour ? I made my palmtop decision a couple of years ago now, before colour screens came into the mainstream as an option - and today I am still perfectly happy with the mono screen on my Palm V(x). Perhaps my usage of a palmtop is significantly different from others, perhaps not. I don't need a palmtop that will provide pixel perfect, colour images of a webpage as my desktop machine might. I appreciate being able to run a browser on my palmtop but, as I am usually using it coupled with a mobile phone and am therefore limited to a mere 9600 baud (or 28k8 if I'm using an HSCSD equipped handset), I'm pretty happy to be downloading 'minimalist' web pages. So, what do *I* need/use my Palm for ? o It is *great... Read review

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