Palm TX Handheld

I have owned 2 Palm TX's (One replacing the other). And, just after the warranties expired, the digitizer went out on BOTH of them, making the touch screen totally unstable! Palm really does need to upgrade this product. I'll not buy another!

I have been using Palm since the 90's. After I retired and had a disability, my memory was not reliable and the Palm became my crutch. I upgraded to Zire, to Tungsten, and now to TX. I had my Tungsten T5 set up with all of my memory needs from addresses and phone numbers, to birthday reminders, memos of ideas off the top of the head, journals, to my To-Do lists, audio books, family photo album, favorite music - - - everything I needed and more.

My Tungsten T5 died (maybe from new computer to synch to that used Vista?) When I looked at replacements, I checked methodically; not just Palm, but "pocket PC's" and everything in the PDA category I could find. Palm no longer made Tungsten, and I tried the new TX. WOW, it was better than my Tungsten, more like a pocket PC. Internet connection was simple and no WiFi card needed. I'm keeping my own data entries simpler; no list of To-Do's by month or season, etc.

But for anyone thinking about this device, it is a full featured Palm PDA with WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity built in, better Internet browser and email connection, great audio, and I'm still exploring everything else. There is a ton of software for Palm you can choose from. The battery life seems fine to me, and charges easily and quickly. I don't need all of the options for importing your windows Word or spreadsheets, etc. I don't use it for business.

Overall, I love my TX and would buy it again. Think about what you are looking for, how you plan to use it, and see if this model fits your needs. Enjoy.

I have really enjoyed my Palm TX. The email and wi-fi web features are really great, but I wish the webpages were the actual pages and not text-based. Another thing I really like is that it has Word, Excel, and Powerpoint--the Excel saved my butt on a test the other day! I keep this mainly for the organizer features, which are a lot better than on older Palms or the Ipod touch, which I also have. If you are wanting to buy the Palm for mainly the music and internet features, I'd go with the Ipod touch or IPhone instead. But if you want a nice organizer with some other cool features, I'd say this is the way to go.

I purchased this palm for my company on April 1st, 2008.
It worked out of the box just fine, but then it started to not record my clicks on the screen. I looked everywhere for help and found that the only thing I could do is return it.

I wasn't looking forward to returning it, so I went to my account page, clicked on a button, and within 2 hours they wrote back saying that a new one was on the way!

I am really impressed with Amazon and how quick they took care of this problem. Just today I mailed back the defective TX.

I will definitely shop here again!

The Palm TX has lots of great features. The hardware is very capable: high res screen, WIFI, Bluetooth, good internal memory and an SD slot. Palm has worked on this product for many years so the software is reasonably mature, stable, and capable. It includes a web browser, email, and the usual Palm functions. There is lots of 3rd party software. In all, this is a great PDA for the price.

Taking away from this is the digitizer. Mine goes out of calibration constantly. This means that the recorded stylus position is unreliable. You point to one thing and another is selected. It is horribly frustrating! Lots of people report the same thing on the web. There should also be a hard cover that keeps you from hitting the buttons while it's in a pocket or purse. Finally, the web browser is ready for a major upgrade. There are lots of small format web sites that don't display well. (Many others work great.)

Summary: Palm should keep updating this product or Apple will steal the market completely away in the next year or so!