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Palm Tungsten T3, $399. Tungsten E, $199. Zire 21, $99. PalmOne, (800) 881-7256, (408) 503-7000. www.palmone.com/us/ |
A significant development with the Tungsten T3 is its improved compatibility with common enterprise applications, such as Word and Excel. I used Documents To Go to read and write native Microsoft Office files without conversion, including those I received as e-mail attachments. In addition, the IBM J2ME Java Virtual Machine let me run a wide range of Java applications. Enterprise-class management features are still largely third-party add-ons. But the bottom line is that for power users, you simply can't do much better in a PDA.
Tungsten E: Missing Link?
The midrange Tungsten E comes with 32 MB of RAM, a midrange TI OMAP 311 ARM processor, an SD/MMC slot, speaker and stereo headphone jacks, and yet another gorgeous, crisp 16-bit color screen (320x320). This unit would be a shoe-in for corporate workhorse PDA except for one glaring problem: Inexplicably, palmOne left off the Universal Connector and instead put a standard USB port on the bottom of the unit, the same type used in the consumer-level Zire units. This means the Tungsten E can't charge and sync on standard Palm cradles; use Universal Connector sleds and devices such as the Palm Power To Go charger; use UC-based folding keyboards; or use chargers and peripherals of other Tungstens.
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