Tungsten Handheld 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.
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19 Facts About Tungsten Handheld
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The first device in the line was the Tungsten Handheld T, making it the first Palm PDA to be labeled with a letter rather than a number and to run Palm OS 5.
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Tungsten Handheld 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.
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Palm's Tungsten Handheld E was the cheapest of the Tungsten Handheld series, and as such, has been one of the most successful.
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Tungsten Handheld E, released in October 2003, was intended to replace the aging Palm m515, one of the last holdouts from Palm's old product line.
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Tungsten Handheld E2 had the ability to use WiFi, but only as an add-on SDIO card made by PalmOne .
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The Tungsten Handheld T was designed by Palm engineers based in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
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When open, the Tungsten Handheld 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.
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The Tungsten Handheld T was the last Palm PDA to use the original Graffiti Version 1 handwriting recognition software.
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Tungsten Handheld T2, introduced in July 2003 for US$399, was simply a minor update to the Tungsten Handheld T, and had exactly the same form factor.
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Tungsten Handheld T2 was discontinued in April 2004, having been succeeded by the Tungsten Handheld T3.
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Tungsten Handheld T3 was the third T-Class Tungsten Handheld device, released in October 2003.
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Early criticisms of the Tungsten T3 include it electronically damaging SD cards and its relatively low battery life .
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Tungsten Handheld T5 was the first Palm PDA to have a 320x480 pixel screen without a slider mechanism as used in the Tungsten Handheld T3, T2, and T, though other brands have had sliderless HVGA displays for years.
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At the time of its release, the Tungsten Handheld T5 was plagued with memory inefficiency problems, third-party application issues, and device driver crashes, due to the new Non-Volatile File System.
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In some countries, including Australia, the Tungsten Handheld 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.
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Tungsten Handheld W focused more on its PDA half than its cellular telephony half, much like it's predecessors, the Palm i705 and Palm VII.
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Tungsten Handheld W was succeeded by the Treo 600 after Palm purchased Handspring and became palmOne.
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Tungsten Handheld C was superseded by the LifeDrive Mobile Manager, the Palm TX, and the Treo series.
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