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Palm TX Handheld PDA

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Palm TX Handheld PDA

  • Reviewed by: TJ from South Texas

    06-22-08

    Duration of ownership: 2 Years

    Strengths: Small, lightweight, excellent display, good battery life, does what I need it to do.

    Weaknesses:Does not function as a voice recorder. Battery is not user replaceable.

    Overall Evaluation: After years of lugging a planner, I converted to the Palm TX Handheld. I've never looked back. The convenience of having all of my contacts and my calender with me at all times has made the conversion worthwhile. The ability to synchronize with Outlook has made both applications more useful. I'm a stickler for back-ups. Having my contacts and my calander on both devices and the ability to synchornize gives me a sense of security.

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    06-13-08

    Duration of ownership: 19 Days

    Strengths: nice big screen, wifi nice, liked the applications that came with it

    Weaknesses:customer support from Palm and freezing up

    Overall Evaluation: multiple hard resets, constantly freezing up, poor support from Palm, solution for everything was "hard reset, remove all added programs" - even if they came from Palm, 23 hard resets within the first

  • Reviewed by: msandover

    01-31-08

    Duration of ownership: 4 Months

    Strengths: Overall competencies

    Weaknesses:Fragile plastic body, digitizer drift

    Overall Evaluation: Waited for price to come near $200 to where I felt comfortable scrapping my T3. Fine screen - need to shade it of course when out in sunlight. Very much agree with the reviewer who noted that having it all on a phone is dangerous. The phone is for calls. I use the TX for MP3s, calendar, tasking, address book, alarms, etc. Don't want it all to "go away" should the phone with everything fail.Cons: the digitizer is a pain. Drifts constantly throughout the day. Noted that the digitizer on the TX I bought for my girlfriend at Christmas is much better. I think this is a quality control issue. Who knows. Perhaps what I got for a low price was actually a refurb. It didn't appear that way but you never know.Pros:Seems to have good battery life. Just for grins I run both bluetooth and WiFi at the same time to grab streaming WiFi in my home and pair it via bluetooth to a stereo bluetooth headset. The MP3s are encoded at 320K and the fidelity's great. Battery lasts about 2 hours. Under regular usage it's much much longer - even with just WiFi running.This PDA was not worth buying at $300. It is a very good buy, though, at near $200. It remains to be seen if it holds up over time. I use it with some care (stay away from the power button; just let it go off itself...)

  • Reviewed by: KyleDP123

    09-19-07

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: wi-fi and bluetooth, sharp screen, expanded touch region, mp3 player, excellent calendar and software, generally easy to use, compact, wireless keyboard compatible, documents to go capability, battery

    Weaknesses:versamail is hard to get used to, wi-fi reception is fickle, hard to configure for bluetooth hotsync, lots of white noise on headphone jack, browser and Docs2go are both less than capable

    Overall Evaluation: Bought it about 2 years ago when it just came out and I still use it frequently. Lots of capabilities on paper, although some fall short of expectations. Overall a good mobile device. I carry it instead of my laptop some places.

  • Reviewed by: spaulding1930

    06-10-07

    Duration of ownership: 2 Days

    Strengths: Bluetooth, screen size, battery life, movies, mp3, built in speaker, wireless internet, non volatile memory, fits in my pocket, makes my bed, cooks my food....

    Weaknesses:wireless is only B, plastic body, cannot read it in the sunlight. SD card limited to 2 Gig.

    Overall Evaluation: So your looking for a hand held that does everything? You want a phone, MP3, wireless, ect? Stop reading and go buy one of those new fangled phones. But when the battery on that phone goes dead so you cannot call anyone because you were playing games or listening to MP3s, don't come crying to me. If your going to have a phone get a phone. If you want everything else, along with that phone, get a T/X. If you have ever owned a palm pilot before, you know that when your battery goes dead that you loose everything on your machine. Not with the T/X. Its 128 meg of memory is like the flash memory cards it will stay in even after you lose power. My old Zire 71 got wiped every time I forgot to charge it. Battery life. Palm cut back on the processor speed to help extend the battery life. The Zire 72 and some of the tungsten class have a faster processor but a shorter battery life. I really haven't noticed the difference in speed. Screen size. The T/X has a virtural grafitti area which means that when you dont need to write anything you can remove it and have this great big beautiful screen. The screen can be turned 90 degrees for an even bigger view of what ever your looking at. The only complaint I have is its still hard to see the screen on bright sunny days. I have the same problem with my V3 Phone. Multimedia. Speaking of my V3 phone, it does have a nice camera on it. With the built in bluetooth on it and my T/X I can move the pictures I take on my dinky screen phone and put them on the big screen of the T/X. Boy do they look nice. Get a free program called the Core Media Player and you can watch movies, see pictures, listen to MP3s on the T/X's built in speaker. Try that on you IPod when you've lost your head phones. The T/X has a built in SD slot so you can store movies, pictures MP3s, and programs on the memory cards. Even though the current limit on the cards is 2 gigabites, I'm sure that the palm community will write something to allow access to larger 4 gig and larger cards in the future. Wireless. The T/X can access wireless networks any where. Coffee house, library, around town, your neighbors as long as the network is not security locked. Down load your email sync your Avant Go cruse the internet. The problem I have is that you do it at B speed, G would be faster but I'm sure that Palm did it to save on the battery. To sum up I've never written a review before. I am compelled to endorse this product because of the positive experience I have had with the T/X for the last year and a half. During that time I have carried My T/X every day and would be lost with out it. It is the pinnacle of the Palm handhelds.

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