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Palm TX - PDA with TomTom 5 GPS Navigation System

by Palm
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

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Technical Details

  • Includes TomTom 5 GPS Navigation System
  • Stay connected with Wi-Fi technology
  • Large screen, rich colours
  • Email on the go
  • Take your work with you
  • 128MB non-volatile, flash memory
  • Carry music, photos, & videos in your pocket
  • Unplug with Bluetooth® wireless technology
  • Expand your possibilities
  • Sleek design in new steel blue
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Product details

  • Boxed-product Weight: 1.8 Kg
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  • Item model number: PalmTX&TomTom
  • ASIN: B000BU2FKM
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 19 Oct 2005
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 74,039 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

If you've been looking for an affordable handheld with total wireless connectivity, then the Palm® T|X handheld is what you've been waiting for. Use the built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® technologies to check email, browse the web and access files on a network1. Web pages, PowerPoint® presentations, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets come to life on the large, stunning colour display that rotates from portrait to landscape.

It's perfectly compatible with Microsoft® Outlook®2. Not surprisingly, the Palm T|X handheld is easy on the eyes, too. The sleek design is anything but business as usual. Use the built-in Blazer® web browser to get driving directions, check stock quotes, or read the latest news. With Wi-Fi technology, you're on top of it all when you're away from your desk. At work, tap into your corporate network and download an email attachment while waiting for a meeting. At home, keep up with work after hours by checking email over your own Wi-Fi network2. At a café, access your company's web-based sales application.

With a large, 320x480 colour screen, the Palm® TX handheld is big news. View web pages in all their glory in landscape mode. Then flip to portrait for your schedule and Word documents. The stunning display shines with support for more than 65,000 colours, bringing everything from video clips to vacation photos to life.

With the VersaMail® email client, you can check your corporate or personal email-and thanks to easy preconfigured settings-personal accounts like AOL and Yahoo!, too. Download, read, and edit a Word or Excel report on the fly. Or send a photo of your son's first soccer goal. And since the Palm TX handheld works with Outlook, you can synchronise email on your device with the email on your computer4. That goes for your contacts, calendar, tasks, and memos, too. Or, synchronise your corporate Microsoft Exchange email and calendar with built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®. Either way it's a breeze.

The Palm TX handheld comes with Documents To Go®, which lets you view, edit, and create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint compatible files and be more productive wherever you are5. Download a Word document at the airport. Rehearse your big presentation in a coffee shop. Or open an Excel spreadsheet at your hotel.

There's more than enough room to hold your calendar, contacts, applications, and even your spreadsheets and presentations. Not to mention fun stuff like photos, tunes, and video clips. And because it's flash memory, the information on your handheld is protected-even if you forget to recharge and the power runs down.

Thanks to the included Pocket Tunes", you can listen to MP3s and podcasts right on your Palm TX handheld. Create and edit playlists, shuffle songs, navigate by album artist or genre, and even listen to songs while using another application. The Palm TX handheld is great for digital photos9 and video clips, too. Create photo slide shows complete with cool transitions. Or watch a clip of a movie trailer. You can even pop in an SD card from a digital camera to show off your photos on the stunning colour display.

These days it seems like Bluetooth technology is everywhere. Connect with a compatible mobile phone for web, email, and text messages10. Synchronise with your computer without wires getting in the way11. Even dial your compatible mobile phone12 right from Contacts on your Palm TX handheld.

Great accessories like a portable, folding keyboard make working on your business documents even easier. Need driving directions? Need driving directions? Get turn-by-turn voice-guided directions with the Palm® Navigation Companion or Palm® GPS Navigator. Whatever you're into, you'll find a software application you can use among the thousands made for the Palm OS®13. The built-in expansion card slot accepts MultiMediaCard, SD and SDIO formats, so you can do things like read eBooks, play games, or plug in a language translator. It grows as your needs do, too. Add a 2GB expansion card and take even more songs, videos, and documents wherever you go.

The design is classic. The colour is brand new. The Palm TX handheld is so lightweight and compact, it's easy to carry and always be prepared. And it fits easily into a pocket or purse, complete with its new, protective micro-fiber flip cover. Of course, in that cool new colour, you'll probably want to show it off instead.

Box Contents

  • Bluetooth GPS Receiver
  • Recharging cable for smartphone & GPS Receiver
  • Cigarette lighter adapter
  • Vehicle device cradle with windshield mounting bracket & suction cup pad
  • TomTom Navigation Software 5 and the maps of the UK preinstalled on a memory card

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    3.7 out of 5 stars (19 customer reviews)
     
     
     
     
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    39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars Natty Little System, 20 Mar 2006
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    Mr. Alan Priest (Huddersfield UK) - See all my reviews
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    This review is from: Palm TX - PDA with TomTom 5 GPS Navigation System (Electronics)
    Easy to set up and works well. Very nice and simple user interface. Directions are clear and precise, for example, giving an instruction 200 yds or so ahead of a turn then repeating it at the point it wants you to make the turn. I was worried about the speaker volume but the TX speaker is fine.

    Despite some reviews saying that the Tom Tom software for Palm only goes to 5 digits on a postcode, it will actually take the full 8 when searching by postcode specifically (rather than by address).

    Really drains the TX's batteries when using the Sat Nav so the included in car charger (for GPS and Palm in one) is a must on journeys over 30 mins.

    Can download speed camera locations at low cost from easily-found UK Pocket GPS website and this works very well with this unit.

    My only minor gripe is that the Palm and the GPS unit sometimes fail to establish contact. Turn the GPS unit on first, then the TX. That usually works. However, I could not get them to connect at all today. I removed the GPS from the 'trusted devices' and rescanned and nothing was shown. I was thinking I might have to send it back to Amazon but a quick web search told me I needed to reset the Palm (button on back) and then all was well. Only happened once so far and fairly common with Windows mobile devices and seemingly Palm as well.

    Overall I am happy with my purchase. Would be 5/5 but for the connection problem.

    UPDATE at Dec 30th 2006: Been using this combo for almost a year now and I continue to be impressed. In fact, I wouldn't want to be without it. I know it's not available any more from Amazon but if you can get your hands on one or something similar, I would recommend it. It's not just the TomTom 5 GPS either; the Palm TX has given good service. I love the clear screen, it is powerful enough for my needs (which include reviewing patient notes and database use) and the built in WiFi works well. It's also handy to be able to sync anywhere within the house using the bluetooth. The GPS connection problem occurs only once in a few months and is fixed by a soft reset (with no loss of data) so I would now give it five stars.
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    20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Does what it says on the tin, 14 Mar 2006
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    E. Jones "edstokemetalfan" (Stoke, UK) - See all my reviews
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    This review is from: Palm TX - PDA with TomTom 5 GPS Navigation System (Electronics)
    Don't you just love it when Things Just Work? My first experience with GPS systems was with a Palm E2 and Via Michelin software which caused no end of grief, so I have just replaced it with the Palm TX and Tom Tom GPS solution and boy what a difference. The installation is a breeze, the interface is beautifully intuitive and most of all getting a GPS signal is automatic - something with which I had no end of grief with the E2 and Via Michelin.

    Look no further this is what GPS should be like!

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    46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars This is great value - you got to look at this, 24 Nov 2005
    This review is from: Palm TX - PDA with TomTom 5 GPS Navigation System (Electronics)
    The thing is that the TomTom works just like the dedicated tomtom 300 (which is also £299) BUT you also get this great poacket computer that has WIFI, Bluetooth and a GREAT screen. I've been listening to MP3s, going on the web at Starbucks (wifi hotspot)and taking my emails with me in my pocket so i can deal with them during down-time. FINALLY - when you park up, this fits in your POCKET - unlike the TomTom 300/500 etc so it doesn't get nicked. What a price!!
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