I keep a pretty hectic schedule. Between working 11 hour days and hanging out with friends I don't always come into the office at my peak. Actually I might be a little less useful then a fried tomato in the middle of a Kansas winter. But then I got a Palm TX and my whole life changed!!!!!!
Not really. I lied. Not a lot changed. Here is the scoop.
I am still tired a lot but I have my Palm to keep me organized. The TX offers a lot of functionality for the busy individual who needs to be reminded of dates, to-dos, lists, emails, and wants to carry all that plus more in a cool little device. For the detail oriented person here is a good list of the features it offers.
Pros:
- Security in the form of a number touch pad
- Downloadable applications for specific tasks (third party apps can be so cool)
- A very easy, full featured calculator
- A calendar for planning you oh so important dates (complete with alarms)
- Removable SD memory slot
- Contacts that sync with your computer (addresses, phone #s, email, etc)
- Nifty Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, and Powerpoint viewer)
- A media player (music, photos, videos)
- Wi-fi for web browsing and computer syncing
- Bluetooth for syncing
- A cable for syncing! (in case you still live in the 2002s)
- An easy to use email browser.
- Excellent touch screen, nice and sensitive (like my mother)
- Memos
- Tasks. Complete with alarms and lists.
- A nice large screen that is super easy to use.
- Choose landscape or portrait at your leisure
- Google maps works great on it
- Fast, no waiting
- Good battery life. About 5 days of "normal" use is what Palm says. Whatever that means.
- Lots of different themes
- Quality build
- App to enter in your expenses (great for business trips and reimbursements)
- Can enter in all network security options
Ok. Enough of the Awesome. Now for the not awesome.
Cons:
- Kind of bulky
- Not a cell phone
- Must have a Wi-fi connection to get internet, email...
- Interfacing with a computer (I have a Mac) was more difficult then I thought it would be.
- Palm Desktop is slightly obtuse, could be more flexible and intuitive
As you can see, I don't have much a problem with it. It does it's job according to what I expected it to do. However, this is not one of those devices that makes you go WOW! It does cool things but Palm needs to figure out how to bring back the awesomeness and WOW factor in Palm.
I paid a measly $184 from Amazon for a "Like new" Palm TX. I like the interface, the functionality, and the concept of not carrying paper. I don't like having to carry a phone along with the PDA. But just you wait another 2 years. We will probably be talking to microchips in our sunglasses that projects an image onto your lens. Cool stuff.
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