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Summary: Fantastic but a few problems
Review: Overall the Palm Tungsten T3 is a great machine with a bright screen but there are a few issues that you may want to be aware of prior to purchase.Power supply - if you intend to take the T3 around the world, make sure that you have an international power supply or buy one. The one that came with the box is only 120V. I guess the cradle is fairly bulky so you might want to just get a sync cable with an international power supply. USB - I had a lot of problems syncing the Palm the first time. After looking around, it turns out that older USB ports are incompatible with the T3. I bought a USB 2.0 PCI card and it works perfectly now. I just wished Palm made it quite clear on their support pages what the problem could be. I spent so much time reloading the software on my PC. Admittedly, my machine is fairly old and probably has a 1.0 or 1.1 USB port. Kinoma - minor problem, the video player is great and I love the widescreen encoding of movies. The only problem is that if you 'stretch' your T3 while you are playing a movie, it sometimes crashes the whole machine. Stretch feature - the extendable section is great idea but it seems a little hard to operate. I wish it would extend and contract a little more easily. Just make sure your hand is well away from the extend/contract mechanism while you operate it, your palm could get caught in it sometimes especially on the edges :) The only other disappointment is that not every application allows you to display the document with the whole screen (eg Avantgo). Aside from the minor issues, it is a responsive machine that runs audio and video very smoothly. The bundled software is great and bluetooth works a treat. Great Value.
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Summary: Beware Mac users!
Review: If you were a daily AvantGo user like me forget about it now! No more news,weather or movie times in one is easy sync - Avantgo doesn't work with Macs and Palm Tungstens!!!!! Vindigo also does not support Palm os 5 for Macs. and VersaMail doesn't work either!
Also there is another very annoying design flaw mentioned in the editorial review - the voice memo button is triggered too easily.
The Tungsten T3 is great looking and worked well in every other way. But as a diehard Mac user I had no choice but to return it!
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Summary: Best Palm yet!
Review: The Tungsten T3 is the fifth Palm I've owned and is by far the best Palm ever. The larger, high-resolution screen, expanded memory, and improved applications make this the Palm to own. The only challenge I've faced is mastering Graffiti 2, the new handwriting recognition software, which is hard after so many years of using the original Graffiti.
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Summary: Not well configured for Macintosh users!
Review: I recently switched from a Windows PC to an Apple Powerbook and as a result purchased a Palm to replace my IPaq. As a previous Palm owner I appreciate the simplicity of Palm's programming and ease of use. However, I was completely unprepared for the lack of support between Mac OS X and Palm 4.0. It has taken a long time for me to even be able to configure a sync between the macintosh iCal and the palm (and am still working on a bluetooth sync which both my Palm and powerbook have). I am not able to use VersaMail (it is currenlty "unsupported" by Palm for Mac users) or Web Pro. These are two programs I would really apppreciate using! And forget about AvantGo - there is no support between the mac and Palm for this. So just be forewarned going into this purchase if you are Mac user. The Palm support team has been friendly and available but even they seem daunted by the Mac OS system and told me - post purchase - that it works much better with Windows. The design of the Tungsten is great and I have had no problems with it freezing etc so if you are currently a happy Palm user you will likely enjoy the excellent hardware features of the T3.
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Summary: Great but be careful!
Review: The T3 is a wonderful device. However, software developers have not adjusted their programs yet for the T3's screen so there are limited programs for it at this time. Also, many users have reported that the T3 destroys sd cards, notably san disk. Owners must be aware that if they buy the T3 and also purchase an sd card there is a good chance they will destroy their sd card until Palmone releases some fix for this problem.
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Summary: Excellent PDA
Review: There was a time when i felt that Palm was losing the fight against Pocket PC and even other Palm powered PDAs such as the Sony's due to their breakthrough in multimedia capabilities, however, the wait was worth it. Now, we all can enjoy magnificent PDAs such as my brand new Tungsten T3 handheld that allows me to do everything, from playing games and listening to music till serious work such as recording important business meetings. The best of it all is the compatibility with existing accessories such as the Palm Modem or the keyboard, not to mention this new and impressive high resolution screen that can be enlarged up to 320x480 pixels and to use it in sideways mode. As a software developer for Palm powered devices, i strongly recommend this PDA to everybody.. cheaper than PocketPCs yet equally (or more) powerful, fully featured and easy to use.
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Summary: Great value for a high-end PDA
Review: This is really a great PDA. I upgraded from a Palm VIIx, so it is a huge improvement all around. I kept waiting when I heard about the T2 and then the T3. I'm glad I waited since I got a lot more bang for the buck than the t2. More memory, much bigger screen, and a faster processor. The screen looks outstanding (except in bright sunlight outside), battery life is much better than I expected, and it has ample storage space and processing power. I especially like the ability to write directly on the screen so I don't need to open it up. Also, if you like to use the virtual keyboard sometimes, then you get the extra area normally where the grafiti area was. I also like seeing what my grafiti strokes look like. It seems I get better consistency on my input. It does take time to get used to grafiti2, especially when making characters like "L Space" which can frequently turn out to be interpreted as a "T". I work around this by putting the space at the bottom of the grafiti area. Seems to help me out... Anyway, I REALLY like having a virtual grafitti area instead of the previous screens. It is much more flexible and is also easy to change it to what ever you need (or you can hide it). Anyway, this is a well built PDA with all the power and more that any currently reasonable PDA user can currently expect. I'm sure I'll be laughing at this statement in 5 years though. The only downside I've faced with this PDA so far is that the display really does poorly in bright sunlight. Since I frequently work at job sites outside, this can be quite an annoyance. But the screen looks good in the shade and spectacular inside. I tend to do most work indoors except for quick contact lookups and making up lists in notepad. This PDA doesn't have a camera, but I have pushed pictures via bluetooth from my camera phone to the PDA which has a much better display. (I'm using a Sony Ericson T616). It worked very well. I've also set this up using Bluetooth to surf the web off my home PC with a bluetooth USB dongle. It took a little time to get it configured and the Windows XP system configured to use Internet Connection Sharing, but it works great too. The extra screen real estate is really useful for web browsing, especially in landscape mode. Overall, I don't think there is a better high-end PDA for the money anywhere. I don't need WiFi and personally find bluetooth more useful since it gives me quick connectivity anywhere with my cell phone. I also like the new Clie UX50, but I personally can't see paying that kind of money for a PDA and feel that this is a much better value when compared with it and especially compared with the UX40. Of course if you NEED a keyboard...
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Summary: Crashes on a whim
Review: I was thrilled when I first bought it. Not anymore! This thing crashes (soft reset) with 75% of the third party apps that I installed (20 of 25). I have tried 320x320, 320x480, even 160x160 color apps with no luck. All of the programs load and launch ok. Some crash shortly after launch while most crash instantly when you try to select the menu icon for the program. You would think that Palm would make sure that the majority of 3rd party apps would be backward compatible. Seriously, I have never had a palm unit that crashed as much as this thing.
The screen also seems to have little brightness adjustment. I started all the way to the right and didn't notice a change in brightness until I was 3/4 of the way to the left. I feel that the T3 is not ready for prime time and shouldn't have been released until they had all the bugs worked out. If any palm needed an update patch it's this one. Steer clear and if you need a palm right away go for the T2.
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Summary: Very Happy with Palm's Latest
Review: I am very happy with this new Palm. I've gone through three different Pocket PC devices and have never been happy with them. I have always been happy with Palm. And this one seems to have everything I've ever wanted from a Palm. I have had the T3 almost a week now, and have had zero problems with it. I charged it overnight when I first got it, loaded all my Palm programs on it (a high-end calculator, "City Time," a few games including "Scrabble," a dictionary, and "Splash ID"), and have used it as I typically do: I turn it on 10 - 20 times a day, do my business, and turn it off. I have not re-charged it or synced since last Friday, and I still have 20% left in my battery. I will let it completely deplete before I re-charge to help condition the battery. I do not use it for any wireless functions, though I'm sure I will when a Wi-Fi card comes out, or I get a Bluetooth adapter for my desktop PC. I keep my screen brightness just below 50%. And the new screen is absolutely stunning. I got a 256 Mb Lexar SD card, loaded about 25 Mb of photos on it, and they look great. I suggest shrinking your photos before loading them - you will not need high resolutions at all. A 75 kilobyte picture looks as good as a 1 megabyte picture, and loads instantly. I do have some trouble seeing the screen in sunlight - I have to tilt it until it is just right. This T3 is replacing a Pocket PC I got as a test device. The Pocket PC replaced a Palm 515, which I gave to my wife. (She loves my old 515.) There is a marked increase in the speed between the T3 and the 515, and accessing programs now seems virtually instantaneous. I rarely extend the device to access the Virtual Graffiti area. I love having everything I need in the non-extended layout. I am having some trouble getting used to Graffiti 2. It definitely takes practice. I still use the typewriter function for symbols and some punctuation marks (which means having to extend the device). I'm sure I'll get used to it, just as I did with the original Graffiti. All in all, I highly recommend the T3. Highest marks for Palm.
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Summary: The Same Resolution as a Clie NZ, But Fits in Your Pocket
Review: Palm has done it again! The Tungsten T3 combines a 320x480 display with the ability to actually fit comfortably in your pocket. Of course all the other specs have improved as well, a TI OMAP 1910 400 MHz processor, 64 MB of on-board RAM, and of course the standard SD slot with SDIO and MMC support. For existing Palm owners, this unit will work with most accessories (and cradles) dating back to the Palm M500/M100 series units as all use the universal serial connector. The real innovation in this, though, is the added screen resolution, without giving up the hardware buttons or the five-way button, which simply side open revealing an extra 50% of screen space that can be used as a Graffiti area or as extra display!
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