Palm Tungsten T2 Handheld

Pros: 32MB RAM, universal connector, Palm OS5, improved screen.
Cons: Price, battery life, another new Tungsten T in the near feature?

Hmm... Palm has released this bad boy for about 2 weeks now, about 9-10 months from the release of t ...

Pros: Looks, Palm OS 5.2.1, Collapsible Graffiti Area, Bluetooth
Cons: Battery

The Palm Tungsten T2 is the device that ultimately replaced the Palm Tungsten T and is a step above the Palm Tungsten E. When the Palm Tungsten T2 first came out, it was very expensive. But through gradual price drops, the Palm Tungsten ...

Pros: Small footprint, nice screen, big memory, expandable, palm os 5!
Cons: battery life

The T2 is my third palm device. My last two were Handspring's. Back in the day when I got my first ...

Pros: Reliable, Screen easy on the eyes, powerful enough for med. students and residents alike
Cons: May turn itself on in certain cases, no virtual graffiti area, speaker is weak

Well let me start of by saying that I bought this little sucker about 5 days after it was released... And I have not regretted it one bit. The other reviews can give you the specs on the machine, but let me tell you about my "almost year" with the T2. ...

Pros: Color screen and ability to add a headset are cool.
Cons: Seems to really wear down it's battery quickly.

I upgraded to the Palm Tugsten T2 Handheld when my 4-year old Palm V began acting up. I thought I'd be excited by the color screen and the new features - like the ability to plug in headphones and listen to books on tape or music while I was at the gym. ...

Pros: More Memory, Sexier Screen, Bigger Battery Life, Graffiti 2 :)
Cons: Graffiti 2 :(

From T|T to T|T2I recently upgraded from a Tungsten T to a T2. The review for the former can be found h ere. To simplify things – and avoid repetition – I will talk about the differences. To look at, ...

Pros: fast, small, palm os allows for lots of freeware
Cons: build quality, comes with docs to go 5, not 6.

I bought this palm t2 on ebay about a year ago. I also bought a nice sena leather case with it, a must have. You can go to www.senacases.com for one yourself. I used to have a palm III, then a sony clie s320, then switched to a pocket pc with a dell ...

Pros: Excellent screen, great looks, good battery life, and with Bluetooth it can replace your laptop.
Cons: No case; some under-powered apps; Graffiti 2 isn't great (but this is easily remedied!)

For several years in college I carried a Palm V -- one cool-looking handheld. At the time it was state-of-the-art, but I hardly ever used it for a couple of reasons: the screen was hard to read, the apps were not so great, and the processor and memory ...

Pros: *Good Software & OS *Graffiti2 works *Nice screen *Simple, yet full-featured
Cons: *Voice recorder crashes, clips memos *On-screen writing is impractical *Folding form factor *Short battery life

This is my first PDA. I dropped around $270 for it and I don't regret the purchase. (I am using the T2 in conjunction with David Allen's _Getting Things Done_. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in getting the most out of his time and ...

Pros: Full features. Nice size and feel. Nice stylus. Documents to go works well.
Cons: Need a better mp3 player - a freeware version. Real Player has no equalizer option.

I must admit I was skeptical at first moving from a PocketPc to Palm OS, but I am impressed. My biggest worries were being able to use Excel and Word. PocketPC brags about being able to do this fairly seamlessly, but from what I've experienced in the ...

Pros: Cheaper than the T3
Cons: No Graffiti-area

No, I'm not talking about the Terminator movie, but about the Palm Tungsten T2 and T3. I assume you read some reviews of the T2, this review is just to help you pick a T2 of T3. Or if you just bought a T2, you can read this and be happy you didn't ...

Pros: Nice color screen, I liked the voice recorder, good apps.
Cons: Quality is non-existent. Digitizer problems

I've owned this device for about 6 months...it is now at the PalmOne repair center. The digitizing screen is whacked and no longer allows me to select anything....except for an occassion or two where it would select something that I didn't tap on with my stylus.

An isolated incident? No way baby! Check the PDA forum sites such as PDA Street.....you'll find that this is a VERY COMMON problem....digitizer drift, and it doesn't matter how many times you try to recalibrate your digitizer....it just won't stick.

I'm seriously thinking about buying a Pocket PC and giving that a whirl.....because I'd be afraid that buying even a Sony Clie might yield the same miserable digitizing quality results. I'm unsure if the digitizing portion of all these units are built by a single source, or if they have different manufacturers.

I will probably get a refurb back, but according to many forum posters.....it'll end up doing the same thing, except now you get poor quality and a scratched up refurb unit.

Don't just walk away from this junker....run! And it's ok to scream while doing so.

Pros: Great design.
Cons: Digitizer drift, computer interface difficulties, unhelpful support

Like others on the list, I have the digitizer drift problem, which is a major limitation. Since I mostly don't use the stylus to enter data it's not a horrible problem, but it is certainly a limitation.

My main problems have been with the computer interface. I get the dreaded "chunk underlocked" error fairly regularly, though a second hot-synch usually solves the problem for some reason. Today, though, I suddenly encounter a new error message: "The connection between your handheld computer and the desktop could not be established." There's nothing wrong with my ISB port, and in fact nothing has actually changed since the last time I did a hotsynch.

Unlike others I've found technical support to be a huge waste of time. You do better, on the whole, typing the error message into Google. But this time I'm stumped.

All rather sad, since the design, and the whole concept, is great. But I won't buy another Palm.

Pros: small size
beautiful screen
vast memory

Cons: Graffiti 2 (easily remedied by using TealScript)

The T2 has the best feature set and size of all of the current Palm models. It's the smallest of Palm's current machines, the buttons are easier to use than the other Palm machines, the memory is more than sufficient for even the most demanding user, the clear cover is a work of sheer GENIUS, and the slider is sturdy and efficient (and serves a useful purpose, unlike the slider on the larger T3).

In short, the T2 is basically the perfect PDA. The only drawback is that it uses the inferior Graffiti 2. Installing TealScript remedies this weakness.

Pros: power-packed and capable of handling a dizzying number of applications. Lucid screen and clear colors.
Cons: pull-out feature to expose graffiti writing surface is irritating. Cover is also inconvenient.

I had this device for a couple of weeks and decided to return it for the following reasons:

1) it seemed heavy and bulky

2) the feature of having to pull open the T2 in order to use the graffiti writing surface struck me as inconvenient and, frankly, unnecessary. A gratuitous feature.

I traded down to the Palm E, which is sleek, beautiful, light, quite a bit less expensive, and always open and ready to use. No regrets-- except for the short battery life.