Handhelds revisited – Palm Tungsten C/ T3

The Palm Tungsten C
The lean mean business machine

The Palm Tungsten means business. It runs Palm OS 5.2.1, is powered by a 400 MHz Intel XScale chip and ships with 64 MB of RAM. The Secure Digital/ Multi Media Card (SD/MMC) expansion slot lets you push the capacity of your Palm by an additional 512 MB.

It features a 65,000 color trans-reflective screen and an integrated keyboard just below it. You will find a five-way navigator, and four function buttons at the bottom. Your communication options include Wi-Fi and IR.

The Tungsten C comes with an excellent software bundle including a VPN client, a good browser and the powerful Palm VersaMail 2.5, which can handle almost all kinds of e-mail attachments better than most PDA e-mail programs. It also comes with a USB cradle, which can be used for both charging your device as well as syncing it with your PC or Mac.

But the Tungsten C isn���t quite music to your ears���it ships only with a mono headphone jack, and has no MP3 player installed by default. You can always download a player, but there���s pretty much nothing you can do about the headphone jack.

So if you want music on your Palm, take a look at the Tungsten C cousin, the T3. The Tungsten T3 has a stereo headphone jack, a stretchable screen and Bluetooth. But remember, in this case you have to let go of the integrated keyboard and Wi-Fi.

Tungsten C
Vital stats: 4.8 by 3.1 by 0.65 inches, 180 grams
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Tungsten T3
Vital stats: 4.3-by-3.0-by-0.63-inch, 155 grams
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