Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Palm Tungsten T3 Reviews
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 10:00 AM
http://www.brighthand.com/article/Hands_On_The_Palm_Tungsten_T3
For those of you interested in the latest from the competition, Brighthand has reviewed the newest family member of the Palm Tungsten T line, the T3. There are a few things of interest.
• It has a 320X480 screen, capable of portrait and landscape. Very nice.
• 5.1 (open)/4.3 (closed) in. tall, 3.0 in. wide and .66 in. thick, 5.5 ounces. This comes in slightly larger than the 2215 in almost all dimensions which is 4.54 x 3.00 x 0.61 in, 5.1oz. Very pocketable.
• Palm (not PalmSource) redid the PIM apps to work better with Outlook and now has a Pocket PC-like Today screen. Contacts supports multiple addresses as well. It wasn't mentioned in the review, but I would think this is going to be a problem for fans of the Palm Desktop product, especially if you have multiple devices. I'm sure Palm will now tout these new features heavily though. "You don't need it until we have it."
• Native support for .XLS and .DOC files. And yes, now that native support exists on the device, it too strips out much information, just like the Pocket Excel and Pocket Word we've all come to know and love.
• This quote was odd. "I've found that I get about three hours of use out of each charge. That's enough for one day's use for me, but I have to remember to recharge it every night." In this article from 2001 the battery life of the original iPAQ 3600 is criticized, which on a bad day had 6 hours of life. Other articles and threads contain similar criticisms of the battery lives of various Pocket PCs over the years compared to Palm counterparts. Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think the diminutive Audiovox Maestro had under 4 hours of battery life. I guess bad battery life is in the eye of the beholder, and then it depends on which device they 'beholding. :wink:
• It is $400, which pits it directly against the 2215. On the face of it, the 2215 has much better battery life, a CF slot (great for that WiFi card without giving up your SD storage) and is slightly smaller. The T3 though has a much larger screen with landscape support. Pocket PC OEMs had better get on the ball on this screen issue.
For those of you interested in the latest from the competition, Brighthand has reviewed the newest family member of the Palm Tungsten T line, the T3. There are a few things of interest.
• It has a 320X480 screen, capable of portrait and landscape. Very nice.
• 5.1 (open)/4.3 (closed) in. tall, 3.0 in. wide and .66 in. thick, 5.5 ounces. This comes in slightly larger than the 2215 in almost all dimensions which is 4.54 x 3.00 x 0.61 in, 5.1oz. Very pocketable.
• Palm (not PalmSource) redid the PIM apps to work better with Outlook and now has a Pocket PC-like Today screen. Contacts supports multiple addresses as well. It wasn't mentioned in the review, but I would think this is going to be a problem for fans of the Palm Desktop product, especially if you have multiple devices. I'm sure Palm will now tout these new features heavily though. "You don't need it until we have it."
• Native support for .XLS and .DOC files. And yes, now that native support exists on the device, it too strips out much information, just like the Pocket Excel and Pocket Word we've all come to know and love.
• This quote was odd. "I've found that I get about three hours of use out of each charge. That's enough for one day's use for me, but I have to remember to recharge it every night." In this article from 2001 the battery life of the original iPAQ 3600 is criticized, which on a bad day had 6 hours of life. Other articles and threads contain similar criticisms of the battery lives of various Pocket PCs over the years compared to Palm counterparts. Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think the diminutive Audiovox Maestro had under 4 hours of battery life. I guess bad battery life is in the eye of the beholder, and then it depends on which device they 'beholding. :wink:
• It is $400, which pits it directly against the 2215. On the face of it, the 2215 has much better battery life, a CF slot (great for that WiFi card without giving up your SD storage) and is slightly smaller. The T3 though has a much larger screen with landscape support. Pocket PC OEMs had better get on the ball on this screen issue.
