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4.0 stars
"Great PDA! One of the best for 2003!"
Pros: WiFi, High Res display, Stylish, Fast and Responsive, Great for watching movies
Cons: No voice recorder, somewhat weak battery life, slower processor speed out of the box than the T5, its predecessor.
Summary: It's too bad that the Palm T|X was announced the same day as the new iPod which plays videos, but the Palm is a much better video player than the iPod is due to its larger and higher resolution display, better support for file formats people actually USE (divx, xvid, mpeg 1 and 2, etc.) via TCPMP, and much better battery life for watching videos (more than twice the battery life of the new iPod).
The T|X would be great if you did nothing but watch movies on the go on it, but of course it also has WiFi so you can surf the web (surprisingly good in landscape mode), check your email in a cafe, and of course you can run all sorts of other programs, games, keep track of your schedule and contacts, and more.
I know it's supposed to be a "business class" device, but the multimedia capabilities of the T|X are phenomenal, and at $299 it's cheaper than most PVPs on the market, with a better screen and smaller overall size. This thing is just plain SLEEK.
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Do you mean "best of 2005?" In a sense, you're right, because this PDA in 2003 would certainly be the best, but it wasn't available then. However, it was available in 2005, and it's still a great PDA in 2006.
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Please specify how many hours of non stop use you consider good battery life. I have a Zire 72 and it has about 2 hours, which seems to be normal, but it drives me crazy!
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I liked your comments, but one thing about the processor speed of the T5. The T5 used a processor that was not ARM based, ARM being the native format of the Palm OS. They used an emulator to simulate and ARM environment on the T5 and LifeDrive. This slowed down the processor somewhat. (I know, I did my own benchmark tests on a Tungsten E and a Tungsten T5. The T5, MHz for MHz, was slower than the E, but overall faster because there were more MHz.) So the difference between the T5 and TX processor speed isn't as great as the difference between the 312 and 416.
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