Representing a year ago, the revolutionary Tungsten T (TT), the company began to gather pace Palm and it looks like not going to stop. In the spring line has been expanded "messenger» Tungsten C (TC) with the keyboard module and Wi-Fi, in early summer, we saw the Tungsten T2 - Updated TT with an improved screen, increased memory and bug fix, well, now enter the market for two staff Brand Tungsten. Meet the Tungsten E (TE) and Tungsten T3 (three)! Let's start with the younger ...
Palm Tungsten E
The hull shape of the new TE brings to mind the classic series Palm Vx and its successors - m500/505/515. The length of the new PDA about an inch longer, but the typical "skinny" - a small thickness, will not go away. The layout is also a classic: no moving parts, square screen and handwriting graffiti area underneath. The control system has not changed, however, four-way navigation key at this time rectangular. This decision may be called controversial. Judging by the new form of a joystick, pressing the "left" and "right" to be more comfortable. However, more in demand, of course, the "up" and "down".
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Naturally, there is applied a bright and clear screen, which flaunt the Palm Zire 71 and Tungsten C - resolution 320x320 and 65 thousand colors, technology Transreflective TFT. The characteristics of the display - a great stock of brightness, good visibility in the sun, the perfect legibility, even at extreme angles. In general, a dream! Technical specifications of the new Palm nobody will be shocked, but still happy: TI OMAP 311 processor clocked at 126 MHz, 32 MB RAM (accessible to the user only 28 MB) audio subsystem with a microphone, speaker and headphone output. Apparently, no problem with headphones is not there - use a standard phone jack to 3.5 mm, which connect any headphones. Not forgotten slot SDIO, but the wireless Bluetooth module is removed (thank God, though the IR port left). PDAs, by all appearances, conceived as a budget, and the following facts only confirm this. Home bad news - the refusal of the Palm Universal connector. Toward a new non-standard connector instead of the usual cradle connects inexpensive synchronization cable. Hotsync program itself in the default settings run by pressing the icon with an asterisk. Closes the topic Cold-Iron description protective cover and battery. The first is a rigid structure of artificial leather, such staffing enhancements series m500. She otkidyaaetsya sideways, in the closed position takes up little space, and in the open brings a minimum of inconvenience. Nonremovable, rechargeable battery, lithium-polymer. His life there is no evidence, but expect to record hardly worth it. 6.7 hours of normal operation - it is a limit, because for capacious battery is full.
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Software content is impressive, especially given the expected retail price of $ 199 for Russia (without VAT and sales tax). Operating System version 5.2.1 is filled with small improvements that will make life easier for the user. Thus, standard applications, in particular, address book and calendar-diary supplemented by new fields such as to make data storage more convenient and improves sovmestitmost organizer with MS Outlook. In addition, the display mode, finally, are enriched with color-coded information to facilitate orientation in a saturated labor schedule. The settings can be noted minor but useful improvements - lock hardware keys, the lack of which had previously been the cause of many spontaneous inclusions PDA with subsequent unproductive Battery.
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Furthermore palmovskoy classics in ROM is well-established office suite Documents To Go (professional edition), email client VersaMail, programs to control the cell phone (SMS, dialer, etc.), and a full suite of multimedia software: Palm slideshow Photos, RealOne audio player and video player Kinoma. On the installation CD (this time it fits on a CD) you can find the "desktop" version of all these programs is extremely easy and fast data exchange between large and small computers, as well as some additional programs, such as the popular solitaire Magic Dogs, A powerful calculator PowerOne and reader electronic books Palm Reader. The conclusion from all of the above is obvious: in front of us beautifully balanced workhorse. Excellent PDA for a student or an accountant, freight forwarder or an engineer. No toys for tehnomanyakov, but great implementation of necessary capabilities. Especially it is necessary to note a great screen (probably the best at this price!) A large set of business and multimedia software. All this - in a stylish package and only two hundred dollars. New pricing will take an empty niche between the ordinary and Zire 71st. We turn to the more interesting parts of the program, the mystical third Tungsten'u T, rumors of which go a long time.
Palm Tungsten T3
Frankly, after seeing the first pictures, I thought it was a "duck" - a bit too unusual was the decision to cover the original sliding bar (slider) is not the domain of graffiti, as the TT and TT2, and part of the screen. Nevertheless, it is reality. In response to numerous requests, PalmSource introduced in PalmOS support non-square screens and rotate the image, while Palm has released a PDA that uses the technology. The main highlight of TT3, certainly - the screen with a resolution of 320x480, which until now could boast of only machines from Sony. The trouble is that Sony has such a large and welcome screen are a number of disadvantages - they are pretty overall and crammed with nonstandard proprietary technologies, such as cards MemoryStick or undocumented audio subsystem.
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Now we have a machine, devoid of these shortcomings. Screen is big, but thanks to firm "tangstenovskomu" Slider, the case remains compact. All technologies are open and standardized, so soon will the mass of programs that take advantage of the big screen and features 90-degree rotation (in landscape orientation of the image). But the machine can fly from the first day of sales, as the most important programs - Office, in particular, has "trained" to work with this screen. However, about this a little lower.
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Apart from bright and clear TFT-display high-resolution, TT3 boasts a 400-MHz processor, Intel Xscale, 64 MB of memory, of which, however, is available 56 MB, full audio system that includes a microphone, speaker and stereo headphone jack, slot, SDIO, standard connector Palm Universal Connector, and most importantly - the transmitter Bluetooth. All this luxury is packaged in a standard for Tangstenov T-Series enclosure, with the important difference that the panel hard buttons substantially revised.Navigation ring turned into navigation, uh, "oval", which, as in the previous new product, simply click the "left" and "right" than "up" and "down". Additionally, four classic hardware buttons this time gathered in a circle around the arrow keys, that, firstly, unusual and knocks motor reflexes, and, secondly, can do a disservice to the games. Recall that despite a year that has elapsed since entering the sale of the TT, many games are still focused on classical devices, joystick, which has only 2 directions, so as the "left" and "right" are often used buttons «ToDo» and «Address Book »(incidentally, these applications are renamed to Tasks, and Contacts). And the final touch. Dimensions when folded is 10,8 x7, 6x1, 6 cm, weight - 153 g, which is 7 mm longer than TT2, but 5 grams lighter. Miracles, and only! The inescapable conclusion - the battery is installed the same (Li-Ion at 900mAh), which means that in larger screen area, should not expect a record-long battery life. However, a detailed test of the living TT3, which will take place very soon, we will judge.
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Software palm in the past six months closer to the wealth of standard equipment for PocketPC, which is not surprising. Finally, there was a standardized and, moreover, powerful hardware. Here and in the memory TT3 can find lots of interesting things. New version of Documents To Go 6.0 has brought such pleasant surprises, such as support for password protection of individual files or data via Bluetooth. But the main thing is not it. Finally, the standard software from Palm is able to read the "native" files MS Office - doc and xls, without conversion! This means that downloading from a mail client or browser Versamail 2.6 WebPro 3.0 (they also have in mind TT3) document MS Office, you can immediately open it, view, edit or print. For the English language provides verification orofografii, and statistics on a text (word count), surely it will work in Russian.
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PalmOS version of TT3 is the same as a TE - 5.2.1. This means that all of these improvements will be present here, there will be a memory, and all these programs, office and multimedia. However, about one raisin describe in more detail, because in those not using it. It is about a virtual graffiti area. Under the slider in TT3, again, there is only one piece of the screen, and a piece of solid - 160h320. This means that text input in any event happening on the screen surface: the area of graffiti, and the keyboard will be virtual. But even if the slider is pushed in and Graffiti area is not available at the bottom of the screen is a useful novelty - the status bar. There are 9 icons that allow you at any time to assess the state of Bluetooth-transmitter, find time to call the menu or the search function, etc. As usual, the icons are active, ie, clicking on status indicator Bluetooth, you can enable / disable the transmitter, and by clicking on the time - to cause a large panel with the indicating the date, time, battery level, and adjust brightness and volume. Here, in the status bar, the switches "to write graffiti in any area of the screen" and "rotate 90 degrees. Summarizing all the above, we have to admit: we have a new candidate for the title of car-wagon. This PDA is equally well suited for office and multimedia tasks, but the combination of large screen and a little shell, of course, is a record in the market, especially given the suggested retail price of $ 429 for a Russia without VAT and sales tax.As correctly noted by one of their western colleagues: "There are only two choices: to buy or swallow salivating:) Sources, Materials:
