palmOne Tungsten E Handheld

Advantages: Good price and plenty of useful features
Disadvantages: Not much memory and low battery life

...The Palm Tungsten E handheld manages to combine many of the features found in more expensive handhelds with a great price. The Tungsten E comes packed with loads of helpful applications including NotePad, Calendar, Contacts, Documents to Go (for editing and creating Word, Powerpoint and Excel documents), Memos, Photos (for storing and viewing all your photos), Expense & Handmark PDA Money (to keep a track of all your expenditures), Versa-Mail (for e-mail on your handheld)plus many more everyday applications. There are also some entertainment applications that let you use your Tungsten E as a portable media center. These applications include RealOne Player (for playing MP3 and Real Media sounds) and Kinoma player (for playing video files). You can also download many freeware and payware applications and games from the internet where... Read review

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Advantages: Size and style
Disadvantages: Handheld Calendar and Contacts search facility does not work correctly - Palm know about this!

...The handheld Contacts search facility will show only 1 page of results i.e. 8 items and keeps repeating the same ones when asked to 'Find More'. The desktop search facility shows the whole lot. In my case the desktop came up with 118 instances of my keyword search, the handheld found ony the 1st 8 in alphabetical order! Additionally the handheld Calendar search function does not work properly. The search results do not show the date the event was entered in the Calendar. Palm Support, Ireland told me it was a known bug, Palm Europe described it as 'an intentional change' ------------ So now you know. Don't buy this database product if you ever want to find anything you entered into it !... Read review

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Advantages: Metallic & stylish, loads of feauters
Disadvantages: Software compatibility, slow transfer rates

...I did not go and buy the PalmOne Tungsten E specifiaclly for it's feauters, nor was I after a palm device at all. I was after a GPS for my car. It so happened that PCWorld had a bundle offer where you got the GPS software, receiver and the tungsten device for a mere £200 (that was in July 2004). As a GPS it works fine. Plug in the receiver, attach it to your dashboard and choose your destination and off it goes. There are too many wires though, i wish I bought the bluetooth version instead. The wire sometimes comes in the way of the stereo or gear stick (not clever) But then this review is about the actual tungsten device.At about 150g or so it is very light and fits neatly into your pocker. Upon turning the device on you have to fill in your name, the date, time, timezone etc. After that you are greeted with a welcome screen... Read review

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