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Palm TX Handheld Brings Affordable WiFi to PDAs

07:00 - Monday 17 October 2005 by Barry Gerber

1. Introduction
2. Struggling With The USB Cable

The Palm TX, street price roughly $299, is well built and has everything in place on the hardware side, including built-in WiFi networking. I had some trouble using the installation software. However, when it came time to use the TX, I loved it and almost all of the software that comes with it. The Palm TX handheld offers great value for the money.

Features

As you can see in the table below, the Palm TX is loaded with features. It's well networked with both WiFi and Bluetooth. Unlike many Pocket PCs it comes with 128MB of flash memory. If that's not enough memory for you, the handheld has a slot for an SD memory card or an SDIO card. The devices display is almost excellent. And, it comes with tons of software, some of it also near excellent.

Model	Palm TX Handheld
Dimensions	4.76" x 3.08" x 0.61"
Weight	5.25 oz
Operating System	Palm OS 5.4.x
Processor	312MHz Intel Bulverde
Memory	128MB flash non-volatile memory
Wireless LAN	802.11b
Bluetooth	v1.1
Expansion Slot	SD/MM/SDIO (top of unit)
Display	320 x 480 65,000 color transreflective TFT
Screen Orientation	portrait or landscape
Battery	internal rechargeable Lithium Ion (Palm claims 5 day life with normal PDA use)
Audio	stereo headphone jack (top of unit); no earbuds included
Software Included	Palm Desktop, DataViz Documents to Go, Palm Blazer (Internet browser), Palm Pocket Tunes, Palm Media (photos and videos), Palm VersaMail, Palm Contacts, Palm Calendar, Palm Memo (text notes), Palm Note Pad (graphical notes), Palm Task Manager, Palm Expense (expense record), Palm World Clock, Adobe Reader for Palm OS, Handmark Pocket Express (stocks, news, etc., 30 day trial), Rhapsody (music, 30 day trial), AudiblePlayer (purchase and read audio books), eReader (purchase and read electronic books)