Palm Tungsten W

• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 55 reviews
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• 7 stars

  Excellent practical device

  by on January 8, 2005

  Pros: Has all the basics, phone, SMS, the usual Palm apps. Some toy freaks might want a camera/bluetooth but for everyday use it is excellent.

  Cons: Having difficuly finding an mp3 player for it, but otherwise it is great! The headset is marginally annoying, as you end up trying to untangle it on incoming calls.

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• 3 stars

  should be recalled NOW!!!!

  by on January 12, 2005

  Pros: phone email and organiser...all integrated, excellent idea but...

  Cons: Palm service and support is abysmal...phone headset design definitely flawed to say the least. Palm could'nt care less. had problem with phone jack(female portion) contacted Palm...only via email I might add because they make you pay up front to speak to

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• 8 stars

  Great price for a book reader...

  by rotaidalg on December 25, 2010

  Pros: Many free apps still available, back-lit screen, good battery life.

  Cons: Phone was too hard to hear - even w/headset-microphone.

  Summary: For an alternative to a Kindle this ROCKED! I used it for notes, calculator, date-book, address book and reader in Afghanistan with no problems!
  I had been reading about the ...

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  Summary: For an alternative to a Kindle this ROCKED! I used it for notes, calculator, date-book, address book and reader in Afghanistan with no problems!
  I had been reading about the new Kindles for E-books. I had used a TREO-90 since about 2001 for addresses, organizing events, etc. but the battery was shot. When I went on E-bay to find another I could only find parts!
  I remembered an EXPENSIVE Palm device similar to the Handspring TREO-90. I found the Tungsten-W after a bit of searching. It was available on E-bay refurbished for $36.00.
  I just got back from OEF (Afghanistan) after using it there for about 10 months. I was able to download e-books from the MWR or USO computers onto a flashdrive and then cross-load from my lap-top onto the Tungsten-W.
  I also found some Scientific Calculator programs that helped immensly with my construction math for diagonals, angles, etc. (Engineers)
  I never had to be too worried about breaking or losing the device as I'd only be out the $36.00!
  I did try installing a SIM Card (worked great for reception there in Afghanistan) but encountered the same problem as everyone else with the audio and mic issues. I just ended up purchasing a cheap cell phone to use the SIM card in.

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• 10 stars

  Still A Good Phone

  by Arauthator on October 14, 2007

  Pros: Has lots of options you can still use.

  Cons: Isn't up to stuff on some of the newer technology.

  Summary: This phone is coming down in price. It's available all the time on Ebay for under a hundred bucks. You may have some trouble using the phone in some ...

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  Summary: This phone is coming down in price. It's available all the time on Ebay for under a hundred bucks. You may have some trouble using the phone in some areas. It's strongest feature isn't the phone though. Guys, it's a PDA. How many PDA's are available to you under a hundred bucks? Not many. What about Media you say? Well look at this way. If you need something to entertain you. This isn't the way to go. I personally like to carry my laptop with me on long trips and flights across the country anyhow. If you view this PDA in a different way than what the internet will tell you and all the new stuff coming out on what they now call smartphones, you can make this work for you. I use this in my Electronics Technician Career. I log troubleshooting techniques of my own and others so I can have a handy log book on how to fix something. I keep industry standards in it. Download and convert tutorial videos off of youtube and various other places. Take pictures with a camera we have at work and upload those straight from the camera memory card to the PDA. I make PDF files on my laptop in my spare time with bookmarks and then upload those PDF's to my Tungsten W. Every once in awhile I play game on it at break or lunch, but not often. You get the picture? I don't need all that fancy stuff they are putting on phones to bump the price up to over five hundred bucks. That's just silly to me. If you want a barebones handheld PC without stupid bells and whistles, this is the device for you. It can be unlocked if you go get you a smartcard reader writer for about thirty bucks and flash a blank sim card. Then you will be able to use it worldwide and on any cell service. You will also want to get you at least a 4 gig SD Card. This will allow you to store more than enough Office 2000 files, photos, movies, music. You can record music via software available for purchase on Palm's website. It doesn't have wifi capability, but I prefer the bluetooth method in my household anyway. Plus, you can put a bluetooth device on any computer way cheaper than wifi. Bluetooth connection is also easier to setup than wifi. You simply install the software, plug in the dongle, turn on the device and bam. It recognizes it. The bluetooth device will cost you extra though as it's not built in to the phone. But it's cheap enough. Cheaper than wifi. If you aren't familiar with bluetooth, you use it to connect to your laptop or PC and than you can use however the computer is hooked up to the internet to browse on the Tungsten W. See, you have most of the stuff the new phones are coming out with, it's just different in the way you get to those things. With a little patience and taking the time to educate yourself, this phone can do anything the new phones do.

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  The 4 Gig SD Card was a typo. You can put in a 16MB upgrade. Plenty big enough for PDF files and taking notes, all the other software you will need. You will have available to you a total of 32MB between the card and the phone memory. This phone will work if you already have Cingular or ATT. I use a sim card from a Nokia phone in the Tungsten W and I can get to my email and web just fine. You will have to find the settings on the internet which is easy by googleing "Tungsten W Wap Settings".

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• 4 stars

  Phone never works

  by sail191912 on August 22, 2005

  Pros: Palm side is okay

  Cons: Phone always broken

  Summary: I already had it fixed, but the phone keeps breaking down.

  Summary: I already had it fixed, but the phone keeps breaking down.

• 2 stars

  BUY THIS PRODUCT AND THROW IT TO THE TRASHBIN

  by on June 7, 2004

  Pros: Full of PROMISE

  Cons: Contain un-reliable, bad design, incomplete features, worst quality ever

• 2 stars

  Crashes + Bad Support

  by on May 6, 2004

  Pros: Good battery.

  Cons: I bought 3 for our top executives, and I have serious problems with two of them. They crash all the time (hardware resets by itself.) The worse of all is Palm support, almost non existent. In my opinion the product is a lemon, stay away.

• 4 stars

  Palm Pilot yes...phone, NO!

  by on April 20, 2004

  Pros: great keyboard, nice big screen

  Cons: phone is unreliable and e-mail is difficult to download. The idea that your e-mail gets pushed out to the unit, just as the Blackberry does, is such a bonus but this unit lacks that.

• 3 stars

  Not a bad pda but a very poor phone

  by on March 25, 2004

  Pros: bright screen, brought back the notepad

  Cons: I had to buy a new stylus that allowed me to reset without searching for a paperclip everytime. I had my first unit replaced because the phone decided notto turn on one day at all. Buy something else. Poor support from rogers in toronto;

• 1 stars

  Don't buy it, and tell all your friends

  by on February 19, 2004

  Pros:

  Cons: The phone is the worst by far-static or silence. The palm part is slow, and always freezing. I have to do hard resets constantly. I bought my Tungsten W through Franklin Covey. They accept no responsibility and blame Palm. Palm has an entirely diffe

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