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Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Electronics Brand: Palm CPU Speed: 312 EAN: 0805931015464 Feature: Built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth+ wireless technologiesEdit and create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint+ compatible filesBuilt-in email and web browserBuilt-in MS Outlook+ and Exchange supportView photos and videos, play MP3 filesMultiMediaCard, ... Is Fragile: 0 Label: PalmOne Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers. Manufacturer: PalmOne Model: 1047ML Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Windows 2000 Publisher: PalmOne Release Date: 2005-10-12 Studio: PalmOne
Features Built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth+ wireless technologiesEdit and create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint+ compatible filesBuilt-in email and web browserBuilt-in MS Outlook+ and Exchange supportView photos and videos, play MP3 filesMultiMediaCard, ...
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: The TX should be the end of the line for Palm Comment: The TX is the fourth Palm that I have owned. The previous three have all been excellent and I have always upgraded to take advantage of greater amounts of RAM and better displays. Unfortunately the TX has proved to be a major disappointment. The supplied email software caused so many reboots that I gave up and purchased a copy of Snapper which proved to be much more reliable. The TX still reboots regularly though. After 10 months the digitiser started misbehaving at the lower left part of the screen. I sent the TX to Palm for repairs and when I got it back the loudspeaker was no longer working. I sent it off again and when I got it back everything appeared to be OK, but a few months further on and the digitiser is playing up again. I shall be looking to move over to a Pocket PC device now, even though it means buying new versions of software. I think Palm has lost the plot somewhere along the line and the quality of their products is questionable. The TX should have been a wonderful piece of kit, but it isn't! Don't buy one. Customer Rating: Summary: So far so good Comment: I spent a few weeks deciding what pda to get.In the end i got the palm TX.lots of good reviews and bad ones but the good out stripped the bad. Well I have had for about a week,and its working well.I must say when I first had it it proved a little hard to use,but with a little time and effort and following the instructions it is pretty good,and am getting more and more out of it. The only thing I would say is that it is not easy getting online,I dont need to but it would be nice to,so will keep playing around with the wifi totry and hook up.The Calender/Diary set up is great thats the main use of mine.I have not used all the functions,but in time I will re-review it and in a month or so will up date this.So far its a good little device,and it is fast replacing my big hard back paper diary. Customer Rating: Summary: Palm TX build faults Comment: Before deciding to purchase a Palm TX, you would be well advised to type "Palm TX digitizer problem" into Google. You will discover a very common build quality problem with this device. The problem is that at some time between 2 months and 10 months of use, the touchscreen will fail. Attempts to carry out a soft reset of the device results in an endless loop with the touchscreen program, which can only be exited by pressing the "home" button. A hard reset results in the same endless loop, but this time it cannot be escaped from. Several commentators on the web advise that in addition to the known digitizer problem, there are also software issues which cause this endless loop. This is a great shame, because the predecessor to this device, the Palm T5 is an excellent tool, I have used one for 3-years with no issues. I attempted to upgrade to the Palm TX to obtain the additional benefit of Wi-fi. I would advise anyone considering the Palm TX to research these issues prior to spending £170-£200 on this device. Whilst Amazon are absolutely excellent with their after sales support, do you really want the hassle of a well specified device that will certainly pack up on you? Once out of warranty, a replacement digitiser for the Palm TX costs circa £30 for a reconditioned unit, and circa £55 for a new one. For that you have to fit it yourself. Sending your device away for repair adds postage and labour costs. Palm appear to have skimped on build quality with the TX in order to keep the price down. Not much use if it doesn't work though! Please don't just take my advice, do your research first, then walk away from the TX. Customer Rating: Summary: Very disappointed Comment: I have had this product for just under a year, and it has developed two faults: 1) The power on/off button has stopped working, and 2) An area of the 'touch' screen no longer responds to touch. Palm are currently refusing to accept my Amazon invoice as proof of purchase (despite it having my credit card/payment details on it!), and with the warranty running out on 19th April I am unlikely to get these faults resolved. Palm have currently quoted me £120 JUST to fix the power on/off button! This is the second Palm TX I have had - the first one just stopped working completely soon after I purchased it, but Amazon were brilliant and replaced it on that occasion (thanks Amazon!). It's a good unit generally, but these reliability issues and hassle with the manufacturer over getting it fixed under warranty lead me to give it one star - I would NOT recommend this product! [Update 28/05/08] Palm did repair my TX under warranty in the end, but it was a very painful process. Their service department took up to 2 weeks to reply to my emails, and I was without my TX for 3 weeks while it was being fixed. Customer Rating: Summary: Palm TX touchscreen problems Comment: I bought a Palm TX in August 2006 while on holiday, and had to return it for a replacement as it suffered from repeated lock-ups and reset cycling. The replacement still had a few glitches, but removing some legacy software and updating some key programs largely sorted them. However, it is now March 2008, the machine only 18 months old, and the digital screen input had started to play up - I had to place the stylus above the desired letter on the virtual keyboard rather than right on it for the letter to display onscreen, etc. I had a look on this Amazon page to see if any other owners had had problems - and there are so many of you! I had one last go at re-calibrating the touchscreen and the whole thing siezed up permanently. Now I can only read my documents, contacts, memos via the navigator, and half the notepad area is inaccessible, as I can't remove the keyboard/input area at the bottom of the screen. Many key files I can't open, as they depend totally on the stylus. So basically I am sunk, and about to revive my old Tungsten T3 till I decide what to buy next. It has to be a Palm machine with Palm OS, as one favourite program only runs on this, is not available for Windows Mobile - and also I love the economy and stability of the Palm platform. The TX, after all the hype, and despite its obvious versatility and high spec, is now a huge disappointment. PALM, please note! Of course there is no way to email this complaint to Palm, so it'll have to be snail-mail. Buyer beware. And here is part 2 of this review!... after writing the above I started the long slog of reinstalling all my stuff to the old T3. This meant a final hotsync of the frozen TX so that I had all the necessary backups. Next, to clear my details from the useless lump I was about to throw away (where???) I did a hard reset of the TX. Imagine my surprise when the whole thing burst back to life! So, all you folks who have had these touchscreen problems like me, do the Hotsync backup and the hard reset and see if you also get your TX back. Having said this, at least one vital database failed to transfer to the Palm Desktop backup, and because I had forgotten to install Docs To Go on the PC I lost quite a lot of writing - so take care, in advance, not to share this sorry experience! However, I am back with the T3, as it is so much sweeter and more responsive despite its volatile memory, and soonish I shall buy it a nice new battery (and some screwdrivers..). The TX will be re-filled with favourite apps and docs and left in a drawer for emergencies. If it dies in there, too bad. By then I may have a Treo 680. Rev. Pam Crane More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Stay connected with Wi-Fi technology (1). Use the built-in Blazer® web browser to get driving directions, check stock quotes, or read the latest news1. With Wi-Fi technology, you're on top of it all when you're away from your desk. At work, tap into your corporate network and download an email attachment while waiting for a meeting. At home, keep up with work after hours by checking email over your own Wi-Fi network (2). At a café, access your company's web-based sales application over a nice, hot latte (1). Large screen. Rich colours. Big news. With a large, 320x480 colour screen, the Palm® TX handheld is big news. View web pages in all their glory in landscape mode. Then flip to portrait for your schedule and Word documents. The stunning display shines with support for more than 65,000 colours, bringing everything from video clips to vacation photos to life. Email on the go. (3) With the VersaMail® email client, you can check your corporate or campus email (3)?and thanks to easy preconfigured settings?personal accounts like Yahoo!, too. Download, read, and edit a Word or Excel report on the fly. Or send a photo of your son's first soccer goal. And since the Palm TX handheld works with Outlook, you can synchronise email on your device with the email on your computer (4). That goes for your contacts, calendar, tasks, and memos, too. Or, synchronise your corporate Microsoft Exchange email and calendar with built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®. Either way it's a breeze. Take your work with you. The Palm TX handheld comes with Documents To Go®, which lets you view, edit, and create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint compatible files and be more productive wherever you are (5). Download a Word document at the airport. Rehearse your big presentation in a coffee shop. Or open an Excel spreadsheet at your hotel. 128MB (6) of non-volatile, flash memory. There's more than enough room to hold your calendar, contacts, applications, an