12 Facts About Palm Tungsten

Palm Tungsten series was introduced in October 2002, created as a "prosumer" line priced at $199 to $300 to compete with the popular Sony Clie and Windows Mobile PDAs.

Palm Tungsten models used a five-way navigator pad, in the shape of a rounded rectangle, circle, or oval and had four buttons for built-in applications.

Palm's Tungsten E was the cheapest of the Tungsten series, and as such, has been one of the most successful.

When open, the Palm Tungsten T looked like a normal slate-shaped PDA, but the bottom portion, with the five-way controller and four buttons, could slide shut, covering up the Graffiti writing area.

Palm Tungsten T2, introduced in July 2003 for US$399, was simply a minor update to the Palm Tungsten T, and had exactly the same form factor.

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Palm Tungsten T2 was discontinued in April 2004, having been succeeded by the Palm Tungsten T3.

Palm Tungsten T3 was the third T-Class Palm Tungsten device, released in October 2003.

Early criticisms of the Tungsten T3 include it electronically damaging SD cards and its relatively low battery life .

Palm Tungsten addressed the Secure Digital Card problem by releasing a Firmware Update.

Since then, no other Palm Tungsten handhelds included a vibrating alarm, a slider to make the device smaller, or the Palm Tungsten Universal Connector.

At the time of its release, the Palm Tungsten T5 was plagued with memory inefficiency problems, third-party application issues, and device driver crashes, due to the new Non-Volatile File System.

In some countries, including Australia, the Tungsten T5 was withdrawn early since the Palm TX offered more advanced, built-in WiFi support, instead of requiring the optional Palm Wi-Fi Card in its one and only SD slot as many other non-Palm PDAs on the market at the time came standard with built-in WiFi.