Palm Tungsten T5 PDA

Reviewed by: Purrfect73

Duration of ownership: 10 Months

Strengths: This PDA is not only fast, but has a beautiful screen which rotates. It also has a drop down keyboard so you get a full screen view. I have never owned a PDA before and I am extremley happy that I bought this one. I bought this for nursing school and it has not let me down. Other classmates have different PDA's and mine is the most stable system and also the fastest. The hot sync is easy and you just plug it in and press a button. The Tungsten T5 is made for me!

Weaknesses: Have to re boot every so often, cannot change documnets just able to make notes.

Overall: I would recommend this PDA to anyone who is looking for something easy to use, stable and fast. I have had this for about 10 months and I take it with me everywhere! If you run down the battery you do not lose your information! The Tungsten T5 was worth every penny.

Reviewed by: snakepudding

Strengths: Fits in shirt pocket, larger screen which is nice for things like spread sheets

Weaknesses: Does not alway work, software hangs up, connector is weak.

Overall: I had a Palm M500 for about 4 years and decided to upgrade only for the color. I had discovered that the engineers that I work with did not use their PDAs when because their?s did not fit into their pocket. I was always the one to have my PDA handy in meetings and available for retrieving phone numbers and data. I use it for scheduling by syncing with MS Outlook. This is the best thing ever. I highly recommend the purchase of a PDA that is painless to carry. Now for the bad. I am now on my 4th unit. The latest replacement recently arrived and I am in the process of evaluating it. Now the connector hot sync connector has gone bad. The software results in random hang-ups. Advantgo will sometimes download and sometimes will not download. I never had these problems with the M500 and regret having made the change. Palmone service has hand me on hold for over 30 minutes on a toll call. I later found out I could get through the 800 number for technical issues, but they do not make it easy to discover this fact. Once I get through to tech support they typically make me go through all the tests that I have already performed. On the average I would say it takes >30 minutes of talk time to get tech support to agree there is a problem and to take action. In summary, if the thing worked without issue and the cable was somewhat robust I would be very satisfied. Currently I am an unhappy customer that really likes pocket sized PDAs.

Reviewed by: Cleo232

Strengths: Screen size & ROTATION! Easy to use & lots of apps avail., TONS of storage, very small & light, document editing & syncing - great for school.

Weaknesses: Can't get connected to the net through the USB cable, no Wi-Fi, can't create docs (only edit).

Overall: Got a good deal through PriceGrabber on this one, $250! My first PDA and I love it! I didn't try it or any other models before I bought it (or check specs) and I just accidentally seem to have gotten the best PDA out there! So far for me no connectivity to the internet through the USB cable sucks. But I probably have it set up wrong; tech support was no help. Would've liked Wi-Fi but the LifeDrive is really expensive. The screen rotation is awesome and I like that the Grafitti area collapses instead of always being 'up'. My favorite thing ever is to go around the house turning on and off anything with a remote using the IR port... so much fun! I have recommended this PDA and pricegrabber to others!

Reviewed by: astrometab

Strengths: large screen. non-volatile memory.

Weaknesses: Unstable with MANY 3rd party applications including backup software! Screen not bright enough to use outside in the sun.

Overall: Long-term Palm user- very disappointed with poor support and denial of problems by Palm Tech support when 3rd party software vendors reveal that Palm has acknowleged problems privately to them!I am locked into Palm so have switched to a Tungsten C. Main drawbacks now are smaller screen and back to volatile memory.

Reviewed by: eyes4u

Strengths: memory

Weaknesses: slow

Overall: Its nice to have a PDA versus the old planner. Bulker and heaver ;[ The T5 is a bit slow in running the word docs and programs. The screen quality is good. Having all the neccessay files at hand is nice. All in all it was a good purchase.

Reviewed by: marchrain

Strengths: sleek disign, nice screen.

Weaknesses: no Wifi

Overall: If this PDA had wi-fi built into it, it would have absolutely everything right. Size, colors, performance, battery life, whatever!!! the appearence is absolutely wonderful.