Tungsten E2 Handheld

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 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 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.

Nearly 6 years after hanging up my screen-cracked m515 for a vintage Thinkpad I snapped up this E2 from PDA King for $18.05 -- free postage and arrived in three days! I have no complaints and for the price.you'd think it'd look battered up but it's virtually good as new, all cables and CD included! I'm a little prejudiced because I was familiar with Palms before so set-up and had the backup files from my previous Palms was a non-adventure though getting Bluetooth going from the PC side was a pain. My PC runs XP so no hassle installing Palm there, but if you have beyond that best check Palm forums to deal with your system. As with my past Palms I recommend installing "Launcher X" from Palm sites for better ease of use. Again, it has to be stressed a thousand times to newbies that Palms are NOT mini-laptops or smartphones and don't expect them to act it. They do excellent at what PC basics they do -- and for over ten year old technology! Now I ordered an extra battery during my purchase to hedge against how old the battery must be, but I was surprised it arrived with *85% charge and it's still ticking wel, thank you PDA King!! I made a great purchase which has a surprising twist because soon as I ordered the Wifi stick at $15.00 at eBay, I discovered PDA King had the Palm TX with its built in wifi going for $33.00! Had I not been in such a rush to grab the E2 at that price I would've noticed and bought the TX at less the combo price of the E2 and Wifi stick together! Sigh! But such is life but I don't regret my E2 purchase and recommend this machine to all!