Palm TX

Product Details

Description:

Introducing the Palm TX handheld. With built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology, this is the wireless device you've been waiting for. Browse the web and check email from your office, campus, or a home Wi-Fi network and places like airports, cafes, and hotels. Carry your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files and get more done anywhere. Web pages, presentations, spreadsheets, photos, and videos come to life on a large color screen that rotates from landscape to portrait mode. Have time to unwind? The Palm TX handheld even lets you listen to MP3s and read eBooks. It's anything but business as usual.

Quick Glance

Installed Memory: 128 MB

Wireless Internet: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi

Operating System: Palm OS Garnet 5.4

Interface Connection: 1 x USB, 1 x Mini-phone Headphone, 1 x IrDA Infrared

Expansion Slot: 1 x SDIO

Summary

Product Title: Palm TX

Manufacturer: Palm

Power Score: 4.2 | 49 Reviews

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Product Reviews (16)

Good PDA - But OS is Buggy

Strengths: Screen size is big, bright, clean and crisp. Built-in WiFi and BlueTooth very useful. NVRAM saves data in the event of battery depletion.

Weakness: Battery life, BUGGY OS, no Palm support!

This is my third Palm (fifth PDA) and I purchased it to replace my Tungsten E (which I liked very much). The integrated WiFi & BlueTooth, bigger screen with landscape/portrait capabilities and larger memory were most appealing. The device looks cool and the sound is much improved with the larger speaker. It's a bit heavier too, making me much less worried about breaking it. HOWEVER, this device...
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By Jerschae - Jan 4, 2006

King of the hand helds

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....

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

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.

By spaulding1930 - Jun 10, 2007

Palm TIX - 3 month review

Strengths: Great unit size, screen rotates, wifi and bluetooth, SD card

Weakness: Build quality, battery life when using wifi, playing movie files, rare but random reboots, slightly narrow screen and inconsistant hotsync cable connection

I bought the TX after my Tungsten E2 screen broke (user error I might add!) 3 months ago. Although I am very happy with the TX my older E2 felt much nicer to use. I'm not keen on the plastic finish of the TX against the steel finish of the E2. The screen is better to look at on the TX but slightly narrower than on the E2 which makes Graffiti a little bit more difficult than before, that along...
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By gklrgibson - Oct 7, 2006

Strengths: Its Pure Palm, Simple, Effective, Usefull, great battery life as a PIM

Weakness: Battery Life not so good on WiFi

I'm an upgrader from a Palm 515, and I actually like Graffiti. But I find with the TX I use the "displayed Keyboard" mode better, and find it easy and fast. Overall menus and functions are well done. The new display is very clear, and crisp. The hotsync operations are very fast, and the Excel/Word/PDF capability is great. The Palm TX is very convenient for reviewing and making minor changes to...
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By AngularBuyer - Nov 6, 2005

Excellent Palm

Strengths: Fast, thinner than old palm

Weakness: Some bundled software doesn't work without additional $, Graffiti harder to use

This replaced my Tungsten (original model), which finally died. Once I worked out that my firewall (Norton, which is more and more problematic) was hanging up the installation, it installed great. It is a nice improvement over the previous. My only two complaints are that the graffiti is harder to use: there are some letters (k, t, i) that I just can't do with graffiti, and I was forced to use...
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By jwschouten - Feb 3, 2006

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