Palm Tungsten E2 Handheld

I would like to offer a somewhat different perspective on this product. I am not a business person; my thinking and needs are very different from a business person's. I am a reader, writer, teacher. Moreover, I am a very disorganized person. I thought maybe if I had a device that could centralize all the various elements of my life effectively, I could have some peace of mind. I have never owned an electronic tool of this sort. After reading and investigation on various brands, I chose this one. I have to say, it is one of the easiest electronic tools I have ever used. I didn't buy it for the bluetooth capability, so I can't speak to that. But it is a wonderfully easy and handy tool for keeping apointments straight and having contact information handy anywhere. Reading through the description of the E2, I was initially afraid that I would have to buy Microsoft Outlook in order to be able to have a calendar and appointment capability, but this is not true. The CD that comes with the E2 has those features--and many more--on it. As a writer, I appreciate the "Documents to go" feature. It is so easy to transfer Word documents to the Palm, and I have put several of my favorite poems on it. I have also bought a little keyboard to go with my Palm so that I can work on poems/stories while away. It is so much more compact than my laptop (and I have the smallest laptop that Dell ever made). It probably wouldn't be a good choice for writing the "Great American Novel" on, but for capturing those ideas that just can't wait, and when your brain is working faster than you can write by hand, this is a great device. I write a lot when I travel. I can also put my lecture-PowerPoints on the device so that I can review them anywhere. Finally, with expansion cards, you can also carry music, photos, and video with you. I do have a 60GB iPod, but, frankly, I am reluctant to carry it with me on some of my more rugged road/boat trips. And, as much as I love my iPod, I still find putting photos on it to be a confusing process. (I am not that technically savvy.) But the E2 works like a dream; simply drag and drop the photos, music, video that you want and there it is! The E2 also has a small speaker which works surprising well and I use it for listening to poems. A headphone jack allows for a richer experience for listening to music. The only downside is that the E2 doesn't have much memory and the expansion cards can be expensive. But I've decided the expense is worth it because now I can carry so many of my precious documents with me in once device which is fairly rugged (at least compared to the iPod which does not have the more stable flash drive that the E2 does). So I can use my iPod to store ALL of my music, to plug into my home speakers, and to take on short, easy adventures. But the E2 can go with me practically everywhere. The E2 is small, light, fast, easy to use. I really, really like it.

I have had Palm devices since they first came out. I currently have a desktop PC, 2 laptops, and 2 iPads. I have tried to get away from the Tungsten 2E for for years but NOTHING does what they do nearly a well as they do it. They are clearly the best appointment, calendar, contact list around. You will never be late for an appointment again. No iPad app on my $600 dollar iPad will quickly setup a repeating appointment in a complex manner like: the the 2nd Sunday every other month. No app will start to notify me with a beep 1 day, 1 week, 1 hour, or minute before the appointment or task and continue to beep me every 5 or ten minutes until I acknowledge it and either silence it with one touch or put it on snooze to remind me again. Such a system is only good if you keep it with you, so you have it as soon as you commit to a new task and enter it immediately. The Tungsten can always be in a shirt pocket or purse my iPad cannot be. If you forget it, when you finally retrieve it, there it is beeping every 5 minutes for your appointment. No iPad app will do that. It has a great "To do list" with priority rankings, great software so you can enter everything with a keyboard and sync it to your Tungsten. If you ever run over it with a car, get another, re-sync it and never miss a beat. This brings me to durability. I have dropped then hundreds of times and always cringe but never did more than scuff them up. I have dropped one into a storm drain grate, washed them in a front loader with laundry, dropped one in my Lilly pond and salvaged them all after drying them out. One I warped with too much heat because I got impatient and forgot to go back and check on it while drying it out. I was still able to hot sync it and buy another. They have great battery life. If I was going out of town for less than a week, I never took my charger. I could go on and on but I will jump to the limited short-comings. The Cons: They are older technology so less ebooks and less sharing of data, no surfing the internet, no email, etc. They have one notorious flaw where the touch screen can get so out of whack that you cannot calibrate it. This does not happen often. When it does just let it run down by running some function non-stop, then recharge it.

I am a very busy facility manager, and I need the Palm operating system (OS). I believe the Palm OS is superior to any other PDA OS, and I do not have the time to learn something else. This product is exactly what I need badly, but it is just too expensive to only last from 6 to 18 months. I am painfully aware of this because my fifth (5th) one of these (always purchased new) just quit. I do not abuse these units! I keep them from moisture, shock, and vibration. All I do is use them gently, a lot. Most of the failures have been related to the beeper which I rely on as a meeting or deadline reminder. Other failures have been battery related. The latest failure is the centering procedure for the stylus operation being off ¼" too high on the display no matter what I do making the alpha-numeric touch screen function impossible to access. If this product cost less than $50.00 knowing it will only last for months not years, I may again consider it. I guess I am saying it is cheap junk only worth $50.00 at retail. I seriously considered some of the Sharp and Casio models, but I need a program like Documents-to-Go so I can upload my large database of Excel notes which I can search while away from my office. I wound up purchasing a "like new" Handspring Visor Prism for just over $100.00. If anyone knows of a (reliable) color PDA that runs the latest Palm OS, and is not expensive, please post or comment to this message. This information would not only help myself, but many others... By the way, I would not recommend wasting your good money on this unit!

Would not ever do without it is practical and you can manage your appointments, contacts etc. I recommend this; product to anyone wanting to keep track of just about anything.

I was happy to find this Tungsten Palm for a elderly friend of mine. Thank you for selling this product. Everything worked and it seems to be a good product.

Item was refurbished, not new as advertised. Missing a stylus; keyboard would not function properly.

Je l'utilise à tout les jours. J'aime ce produit.

The palm is working out great. We love it