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Palm Tungsten E2
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User Score (575)7.2
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Expert Score (9)7.1
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Value for money (20)4.0
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Ease of use (39)3.8
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Palm Tungsten E2
The Tungsten E2 is said to be the replacement for the popular Tungsten E from Palm itself. It has the same form factor, design and a few features have been enhanced and updated in the E2. Measures at 4.5 by 3.1 by 0.6 inches and weights at 4.7 ounces. The outer look has a dark-silver finish It sports a 3.7-inch-diagonal TFT color screen with 320x320-pixel resolution and it can display 65,536 colors. Just below the screen is a virtual input area with one-touch access to the Home page, with Menu on the left side, while Favorites and a search function sit on the right. Four standard customizable shortcut keys (Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notepad, by default) and a five-way navigation toggle are featured. On top of the device, there’s an SDIO/MMC expansion slot, a power button, a 3.5mm headphone jack that accepts Walkman-style headphones, and an infrared port. There’s a stylus holder on the right.
Features
In this device, there’s the built-in Bluetooth® wireless technology. A Bluetooth phone can be used with this handheld and the VersaMail® email client to send email and text messages or surf the Web2 with the Blazer® web browser. Office documents like Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint® files can be accessed on this device as well as the viewing of Acrobat PDFs. There’s the touch and in sync whereby you can sync your calendar, contacts, tasks, notes and email from Outlook® to your handheld. The Tungsten™ E2 handheld can be taken as a portable MP3 player as it has an expansion card4 and by using the built-in speaker, or a set of stereo headphones. Photos as well as movie clips can be viewed and watched on this device. It supports JPEG, TIFF, BMP files up to 5 mega pixels in resolution if sufficient memory is available on the handheld. SD card from digital camera can be inserted in this handheld to view the shots taken. The Tungsten requires a compatible Bluetooth enabled computer. It requires compatible GSM mobile phone with Bluetooth wireless technology, data service from a mobile service provider and an ISP, sold separately. Accessories, expansion cards, and applications sold separately. Headphones are required for stereo sound (not included). It includes Palm OS 5.4 and Documents To Go 7.0. It has the specifications of OS provided: Palm OS Garnet 5.4; Installed RAM: 32 MB; Processor: Intel 200 MHzXScale.
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PalmOne Tungsten E2
Reviewer: Computeractive18 August 2005- Overall 6
An excellent handheld PC but some aspects are dated when compared with others Read more
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Reviewer: Maximum PC Network UK16 January 2004
This PDA has been stripped of all the technological frills, which does at least make it good value Read more
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Reviewer: BIOS14 October 2003
Palm's Tungsten E is a low-cost PDA with high-end features, offering great tools for business users and consumers in robustly-designed hardware. There's no Bluetooth or WiFi built-in, but the Tungsten E is a great device for those who ... Read more
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OK for now
Reviewer: jeffmri, PriceGrabber.com19 July 2008- Overall 6
I'm stuck on palm OS, this is my 15th palm PDA. I now expect units to fail within 1 year, usually last about 8 months (I'm a heavy user.) Until I migrate to smartphone or Windows OS I'll just keep buying these. Read more
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In you Palm
Reviewer: donf18, Ciao07 June 2008- Overall 8
- Value for money 10
- Ease of use 8
My Palm cost me £99.90 from Amazon and I think it was a very good purchase, but then I am a gadget man a would probably say that anyway. I also purchased the aluminium case for £18 which protects my little gem. I'm not going to kid you it isn't the best handheld on the market, but the rest are all away in the £200 bracket so for value for money it is a pretty good buy. Read more
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Palm Tungsten E2: Does the job - reasonably priced. Had a major issue.
Reviewer: apjordan, Dooyoo30 October 2007- Overall 8
- Ease of use 8
I can't comment about it too much because it's the wifes - but one issue she had was the screen needed recalibration to the stylus...which proved unsucessful. The PDA wasn't picking up the right coordinate of where the stylus was and therefore, given the small screen, it would take you into a different application which had it's icon just below where you clicked/tapped. Replaced this weekend by Argos - let's see if this proves ok. I've also heard about an issue with t... Read more
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tungsten E2
Reviewer: Anonymous, Kelkoo01 April 2007- Overall 10
- Value for money 10
- Ease of use 10
ordered 2pm 28/12 arrived 9am 29/12 excellent service from eatay the palm is ideal for my needs and is very easy to use Read more
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palmOne Tungsten E2
Reviewer: Bonnie Cha, CNET01 July 2006- Overall 8
"Very happy with this device" Read more
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