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Summary: My first handheld
Review: The Palm Tungsten T3 is my first handheld. I've had it for a couple of weeks now and am TOTALLY SATIFIED! To date it has lived up to ALL of my expectations. I have already downloaded many files for my new Palm. Some I have tried and immediately deleted. Others, I have fallen in love with and don't see how I previously managed life without a handheld. For work or play, Palm has a winner here!
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Summary: Palm Finally Does It
Review: The T3 is one nifty little unit, this is where Palm should have been a couple of years ago. Better late than never. The only real problem this unit had at the outset was an SD card problem. And though it took Palm way to much time to fix it with a patch, it definitley made it a PDA that could finally compete with Pocket PC. I'm quite impressed with my T3 and recommend it to anyone in the market for a PDA.
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Summary: hard to update from IIIxe, phone support poor
Review: I am returning a T3 given to me as a christmas present. I was unable to get it to hot-sync with my computer. I talked to service three time and corresponded twice via e-mail. They were unable to get the system to work. Two main problems with Palm
1. the installation instructions have no warning about removing existing palm software from pc before the new install. All service reps I talked to said this is a problem. Why not have this in the documentation? Better yet, why doesn't the install program take care of this. 2. Support has probably been put 'off shore'. The people are very hard to understand. And each time you call in, you start with a new person. I'm going to shop for a ipaq or something. I've spent two days trying to get this to work. It shouldn't be this hard.
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Summary: Mac OS 10.3 + T3 = Excellent!
Review: I must live in a dream world because in all of the years that I've owned a Palm, starting with the first color version(Palm C I think), I have never had but a few, and then only minorly annoying, problems with getting a Mac and a Palm to play nice. My experience with the T3 and Apple's new OS, 10.3 Panther (NOT Jaguar as mentioned by someone before me) has been a dream. First, any Mac 10.3 user who is not using iSync and Bluetooth is missing out. But how does one get these two devices talking nicey nicey to each other? To read some of the reviews, you'd think these two are about as perfect for each other as Jalapenos with syrup. Yuck! But it really isn't that bad; at least it hasn't been for me. So, here we go: First, install the Palm Desktop software that comes with the T3, get the latest update for the iSync Palm Conduit from Apple's iSync site, turn on Bluetooth on your Mac, pair the T3 and your Mac, make a HotSync connection with that pairing, activate iSync Conduit in Palm Desktop's Conduit settings, tell iSync how you want to T3 sync'd and you're on your way. Once you do that, you are in heaven. I can't tell why others have had so many problems. I sync up twice or more a day and have never had any trouble...unless I'm doing it after 3 Margaritas after eating at Maudi's here in Austin. But for my part, the T3 and 10.3 work like magic and keep on doing that every time. So, you're sync'd with your Mac. Then what? Well, in you Palm folder in the Applications area, there's a nice little app, "Send to Handheld". And it works nicely to make transfering applications and other things a snap on the T3. But what, other than applications would one load on a Palm. Well, how about photos? And many other new things supported by Palm's new Palm OS 5. The only criticism I have of the T3 is that the handwritting recognition, Grafitti 2, still lags behind Apple's own Newton MessagePad 2100. I still have one and compare it regularly with Palms. It's surprising that Palm hasn't yet reached the level of sophistication in handwriting recognition today that Apple reached in the mid-90's, even when the new Palm CPU is more powerful that the StrongARM that was used in the MessagePad 2100. I guess that shows that Apple really is a leader. But at the rate that Palm is making progress, I'm sure we'll be there soon enough.
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Summary: Utterly fantastic!
Review: I love this little fella! The pictures are sharp, the input in graffiti is very easy and the overall organization is a delight.
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Summary: Probs w/ the Mac (OS X.3-Jaguar)
Review: I loved the look and feel, as well as text entry capabilities of the T3, that is, until I went and tried to load the software onto my Macintosh Powerbook. It turns out (after spending 6 hours in vein on the phone w/ Apple and Palm) that OS X.3 Jaguar is NOT supported and Palm refuses to release a timeline as to when it will be available. Wait a while because right now I have a cool device that can't hotsync... Poor customer service on Palm's end, in my opinion. This fact was not listed in the Macintosh-related FAQ on the Palm site and was no where to be seen on the requirements page (ie., that it was flat out incompatible w/ Panther, and that new software is currently under development)
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Summary: Tungsten T3 Pros and Cons!!!!!!!
Review: Pros: Super screen, portrait/landscape mode, full-screen writing, 64MB RAM, fast processor, lots of included software, the specs on paper, overall design, software extras, Crisp, bright color screen, Fast processor, ample internal memory, Screen can be rotated to landscape view, and Access to corporate e-mail and Bluetooth wireless connectivity Con: Voice Memo button gets in the way of turning on and off, T3's actual speed, little expensive, SD card issue, battery life short, Older software may not work, Rubbish casing, Awkward Voice Button, lack of 480x320 from 3rd party software
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Summary: almost perfect
Review: After owning this Palm for a month, I have found that it's almost perfect. The screen, when stretched, is huge. The display is clear, and the high resolution is fantastic for viewing graphics-heavy documents or photographs. Its size and weight are perfect for carrying around. Most of my problems with it are with third-party support. For example, as a Lotus Notes user, I want to sync it with my calendar in Notes. At this time, EasySync 4.2 and 3.x do not work with Palm Desktop 4.2. The current work-around is to use v4.1.2 of the Palm desktop software. This isn't a major issue, but you do lose the photo capability in the newer Palm Desktop. I am disappointed that the Adobe Acrobat Reader for Palm doesn't take advantage of the high-res screen on this Palm. Again, this isn't a major issue, but Being a long-time Palm user, I still prefer using the original Graffiti. I alternate between using a workaround to go back to the original and trying to force myself to use the new one. Finding this workaround is easy, just do a good online search using your favourite search engine. I wish that this had built-in WiFi instead of Bluetooth. Bluetooth is cool, but it's not as useful to me as WiFi would be. There's an expansion card available if I ever really care enough to do something about it. The stretch feature (where you slide open the case to expose the whole screen) doesn't work on all applications. This isn't an issue with the Palm, but with the software for Palms. I'm sure that more applications will take advantage of this in the future. I realise that I have listed several issues with the Palm, but have given it four stars. I view all of the problems as minor quibbles, and most of them will probably be fixed in time. I am quite happy that I bought this immediately when it came out, and these are the only problems that I've encountered.
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Summary: The Best Ever!
Review: The best Palm I have ever encountered! I am thrilled with the speed and ease of use whether the T3 is open, closed, doing nothing or running multiple apps. The screen is much sharper than the original Tungsten T, and the extra screen space allows easier viewing of photos, lists, and spreadsheets. It works just fine with the ultra-thin keyboard, and only had problems with software because I installed them improperly. Palm wins again!
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Summary: Oh man!! I WANTED to like this baby!
Review: First things first. The T3 is beautiful to behold. The display is beautiful. The Palm OS is fantastic: intuitive, easy to navigate and tailored specifically to the needs of a PMA user. BUT . . . . Well, I've had innumerable problems with the darn thing. First of all I got inconsistent synching with the palm ultimately stripping my Outlook of ALL its information!! Fortunately I'd recently performed a backup and didn't loose anything, but whew was I worried. I finally got the thing to synch without stripping all of my data from Outlook (after email communication with a very helpful and responsive support team) only to discover that none of my birthdays were synching! The support team could not come up with any satisfactory solution asking me to delete the Palm Desktop and adjust the registry - none of this worked. After posting a question on the palminfocenter.com web site (an excellent resource BTW) one of the forum members posted a solution that worked like a charm however inelegant it may be. I kid you not: I simply eliminated the "'s" from "Name's Birthday" by changing it to "Name Birthday" and voilà! All of the birthday's synched! The problem has to do with the Palm synch software confusing birthday's somehow and not synching them. I didn't believe the solution would work, but work it did. Finally, I just cannot stand the new G2 (Graffiti 2) which was developed in response to a suit from Xerox. I did discover a solution at[ ] which worked like a charm giving me back my old trusty G1. Now that I've finally got the thing operating the way I'd like I'm sort of dreading another shoe dropping! BUT, I purchased the T3 within the X-mas holiday time frame giving me till 30 days after Christmas to return it if another glitch shows up. One other observation. The MS Pocket PC is the most inelegant and cumbersome OS imaginable after dealing with the Palm OS. I actually purchased a Hewlett Packard PMA only to return it. I doubt if anyone accustomed to Palm would be satisfied with the Pocket PC which I understand is FAR more buggy than Palm. In all likelihood I will keep this beautiful machine unless an insurrmountable problem crops up. It was aggravating having to deal with these issues and frankly I'm surprised Palm hadn't resolved them before releasing this stuff. They are in a battle with MS for their lives. They cannot afford the luxury of any missteps. Right now the elegance, simplicity, and flexibility of the Palm OS beats the MS Pocket PC solution hands down. Not even close. The energy and memory hogging Pocket PC may intrinsically be incapable of the simple refinement that Palm provides.
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