"I have been following the Palm since it was announced. When I saw Best Buy finally carried the Palm, I bought it and found it has all the features I need. I've been fighting with it since. Palm is the best small phone for minimalists. Palm Tungsten E2 - Essentials Pack - handheld - Palm OS Garnet 5.4 overview and full product specs on CNET. The second release fixed it. *Yup, defective. The rest are all Torx or Tri-wing or whatever. Haven’t used it in at lest 10 years but loved it at the time.My Palm T|X still works (surprisingly, I thought the battery would have killed itself by now, but it still holds a charge, and, again surprisingly, it holds it quite well…) and I actually use it for some things. 2 offers from $3.99. Prices and mechanical manufacturing at just the right spot to make tiny hard drives worthwhile. Also it emulates a USB keyboard so you can upload text documents by having it “type” into notepad or whatever editor you like.I’m adding this to my projects list. The project aims at: Getting the Linux kernel (the heart of the OS) to boot on the device. Yesterday my Tungsten E2 arrived. Of course, it won’t/can’t connect to the two routers I have in my house :/… But since I learned Graffiti (and this has the better Graffiti 2) a long time ago, I can still putter almost as fast as I can with Swype on my Note Edge, without the issues of autocorrection. Palm keeps you connected, not consumed. One reviewer gave up waiting for the battery to die after twelve hours playing MP3s with the screen off. And a V. And a couple of Novatel Minstrel Modems….From the title I was expecting some announcement of a project to make the Palm VII’s useless wireless capability useful again. (Notice the word complete in caps. I also have a Tungsten E2, modified with a higher capacity battery after the original died.
It’s two double-sided boards, and traces hop 3-4 times between sides to go anywhere. Except if your OPL program crashes, there’s no way back without removing the battery. Tasks the pre-release models handled easily were extra slow to impossible. When I saw Best Buy finally carried the Palm, I bought it and found it has all the features I need. $13.95. Without that, the only ways to connect to WiFi with them is with an open AP, WEP or WPA/PSK.Still, a work of genius for it’s time.They’re great. Or maybe logarithmically, for the hardcore pedants.What got Palm in bad odor with their customers was pre-release models of the LifeDrive were sent to reviewers with a Seagate 5 gig drive, which had a decent amount of cache and a higher internal data transfer rate than the 4 gig Hitachi drive in the shipping version.
Also have a Treo 180 that “ran when parked,” haven’t turned it on in many many years though.The AAs were in the cassette tape sled adapter thingy, the Pocket Computer used LR44s? (I learned two days ago that I had to put “bitch” into my dictionary, as I kept using it in a SMS to my grown son, and found out that it wasn’t in there, and the text had zero sense to it. Super portable. I had to rip out the tendrils of the CLIE, flog recalcitrant software, hack through crashes and bugs and learn the eccentricities of the latest degnerate product of Palm's incompetence. They should have made the 5 gig an option, at a slightly higher price of course.
Some other apps included in the T|X ROM can also be run on the E2.I have a PSION Organizer II and no ability to travel :(… besides sit them on top of WRT54Gs as terminals.The batteries have died in our TungstensAgreed. Not of much use naturally.I have a Palm Zire in a drawer (I even know which drawer). I wasn't happy with either. I can’t bear to throw away my Tungsten T (with a dead battery) but I really can’t think of anything to do with it. During that time I have owned an apple watch then later a Fitbit Charge 3. And then bang go all your saved contacts, notes, everything.I’d be interested in that article if you ever think of something. It’s a shame to let it waste away in a drawer.Funny thing is I still have my Palm.
There are certain calculations on specific numbers for which it gives the wrong answer. I did replace the battery a couple years ago.