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Holistic Guidance - Palm TX Handheld
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List Price: $299.99
Our Price: $259.00
Your Save: $ 40.99 ( 14% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Palm
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Batteries Included: 1
Battery Description: 1 Rechargeable Battery
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Palm
Color: midnight blue
CPU Speed: 312
Display Size: 2.5
EAN: 0805931015471
Feature: Sleek, stylish handheld with 128 MB of flash memory and big 320x480 screen
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Palm
Manufacturer: Palm
Memory Slots Available: 1
Model: 1047NA
Modem Description: None
Native Resolution: 320x240
Publisher: Palm
Special Features: nv:Processor^Intel ARM Based Processor|Processor Speed^312MHz|Memory^128MB|Display Area^320 x 480 Transflective TFT|Display Colors^65K Colors|Compatible Flash Media^Secure Digital|Compatible Flash Media^Muti Media Card|Compatible Flash Media^SDIO (Input/Output)|Connection Type^Multi-Connector|AC Input Voltage^108-32 VAC/60 Hz|Type^Lithium-ion Rechargeable|Width^3.08 inches|Depth^.61 inches|Height^4.76 inches|Weight^5.25 oz.|Operating Systems^Windows 2000|Operating Systems^Windows XP
Studio: Palm
System Memory Size: 128
System Memory Type: SDRAM
Variation Description: midnight blue
Warranty: 1 year
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Features
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Sleek, stylish handheld with 128 MB of flash memory and big 320x480 screen
Built-in wireless connectivity via Wi-Fi (802.11b) and Bluetooth
Easily manage email on the road or access files on your office desktop PC
Expansion slot that supports MMC, SD, and SDIO memory cards
Palm Desktop Software for Windows and Mac
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Palm T|X handheld is the affordable handheld with total wireless connectivity that you've been waiting for. With built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies, you can check e-mail, browse the web and work wherever you want. Its large color display and sleek design are anything but business as usual.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: excellent.
Comment: excellent product. wi-fi is fantastic, and does what its supposed to do. arrived fast, and in excellent condition. bluetooth is a great tool to have for transferring pictures from a phone to the handheld. excellent tool.
Customer Rating:
Summary: First Impressions: Not Perfect, But Still Impressive
Comment: I've owned a Palm Vx since shortly after they first came out, which was probably about 7 years ago. I've used it off and on up until just recently, and even today with its grayscale screen and 8MB of memory it's still a solid little PDA that gets the job done.
Still, I knew it was time to upgrade because so much of the software I wanted to use simply wouldn't work on the Vx's minimal memory and antiquated (albeit stable) OS. So I asked for and received a Palm TX as a gift recently.
Here are my impressions after only one week of use:
PROS
- The Palm OS itself. There's nothing sweeter than turning on your Palm and instantly the screen comes on right where you left off. No booting up, no shutting down, just instant gratification the way it should be. Now if only the people at Microsoft could figure out how to do the same with Windows!
- Great graphics and screen quality. The included music video clip looks very good, although I'm sure it falls short of an iPod/iPhone.
- Navigation has a very "fluid" feel to it. Screens appear and disappear smoothly. You can tell Palm has put some thought into the interface design of the latest OS.
- Expandable memory slot. I have yet to use it, but I'm looking forward to popping in an SD card loaded with MP3s and trying out the TX as a portable MP3 player. It's also a great way to keep your data separate from the programs, assuming the program you use supports storing its data on a memory card.
- Collapsible graffiti area. Gives you full access to the screen real estate when viewing photos, videos, spreadsheets, the Internet, or other documents.
- Rotatable landscape/portrait mode. 'Nuff said.
- WiFi. I did have some trouble setting it up at first, but the problem turned out to be mine and not the Palm's. I finally sorted it out and bingo: I had the Internet in the palm of my hand!
- Bluetooth enabled (although I have yet to try it out).
- Decent collection of software to use right out of the gate. So far I've only needed to install a few of my trusty old programs to the TX. Documents To Go is especially cool, giving you the ability to open and work with MS Office Documents.
CONS
- Graffiti 2. Ugh -- I'm already looking forward to reverting my TX back to Graffiti 1, as soon as I get up the nerve to do it (apparently you can't go back to Graffiti 2 once you convert to Graffiti 1). Yes, I know Palm had no choice because of a legal settlement, but they should have at least settled out of court and bought the rights to Graffiti 1 or something.
- Tactile feel of the graffiti writing area is kind of mushy, as if you're writing on a thin film of Jello. My Vx had a hard glass surface that took a real beating, whereas the TX screen feels soft like I'm going to dent it with the stylus. I think a good screen protector film is needed here, something with some texture to it to give it a better tactile feel.
- Palm Desktop. Yes, it works, but Palm has done little to enhance this software since I bought my Vx back in 2001. That's a long time to go without a significant upgrade, if you ask me.
- The bundled encryption feature is painfully slow, too slow to make it useful on a regular basis, which sort of defeats the purpose.
- Although it's got 16x the amount of memory that my old Vx does, 128MB of onboard memory just doesn't seem adequate in these days of multi-gigabyte iPods and other MP3 players. I have an MP3 player that's at least 3 years old and barely the size of a pack of chewing gum, and even that has 1GB of flash memory.
- The sync cable has a terrible plug on the end. The engineers at Palm really botched this one. You have to push hard to get it into the TX, and each time I go to remove it I feel like I'm going to break it off. Plus it's all too easy to accidentally press the HotSync button when you're trying to remove the cable from your Palm. A major engineering faux pas, in my opinion.
I'll probably update this review as time goes on and I've got more to add, but for now if you're a Palm enthusiast you'd be doing yourself a favor to upgrade to the TX if you haven't already done so.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lost Reliability - I'm going back to an analog-life
Comment: I have been a Palm user ever since they were owned by 3Com and haven't switched to a smart phone... yet. I was a brief Pocket PC user but that platform sucks.
This product was to replace a LifeDrive that died and frankly was never more than barely alive. Although it is already more dependable than my LifeDrive I have had continual problems with syncing, resetting and just plain poor reliability. It may be due to 3rd party software I have downloaded but even still in this day and age of tech "necessity" these things should be worked out.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Palm TX
Comment: This is my 2nd TX - the first damaged by an unfortunate accident. Went back for the successor unit as I'm extremely pleased with the product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Palm TX
Comment: It took a little getting used to as I had a dell axim before. But once it was up and running I must say I prefer the Palm to the Microsoft windows platform. The only problems was that my ebooks were not compatible, that wasn't a problem for long as there is a handy ebook format conversion program free on the net..just do a search for it. The built in wifi is very handy too and you can turn it off with ease. With my old one I had to take out the wifi card or it would constantly alarm me about available networks.
I love it!
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