Palm Tungsten W

by Palm

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• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00008KV56
• Item model number: Tungsten W
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,217 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 1977

Product Description

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Designed for mobile business use, the Palm Tungsten W combines the features of a cell phone, personal information manager (PIM), and laptop in one device. The wireless Web browser provides access to the Internet from any location and uses Class 10 GPRS radio for fast downloading. The useful Web clipping service lets users cut out important data, such as stock quotes or flight times, quickly and save it to the desktop. The Tungsten W also lets users keep in touch with corporate email, allowing access to up to eight different POP and iMAP accounts. For faster correspondence, this handheld is equipped with SMS for sending instant messages to those with compatible wireless devices.

Familiar Palm applications--Excel, Word, and PowerPoint--make it easy to create or open documents on this handheld. This Palm device also features the standard PIM features: Address Book, Date Book, Calculator, Memo Pad, Note Pad, and To-Do List. The Tungsten W has a built-in keyboard, making it faster and easier to type documents, emails, or instant messages. An additional five-way navigational button allows for one-handed or stylus-free navigation. A high-resolution 65,000-color screen offers a crisp display for documents or Web pages.

For phone use, the Tungsten W offers more advanced call management features, such as five-way conference calling and the ability to make notes for each caller and set redials and reminders. The phone's hands-free headset lets you send email or view or edit a document while taking a call.

This device has a Palm Universal Connector for attaching peripherals and a SD/MultiMediaCard-compatible expansion slot for adding more memory. The rechargeable battery offers 10 hours of talk time plus additional standby time on one charge. A HotSync cradle is included for recharging the battery or for synchronizing the Palm's data with a desktop PC.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

46 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars NOT GOOD FOR PHONE USE..., April 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Palm Tungsten W (Electronics)

It's a good PDA, but not as good as the Tungsten/T & not good for wireless phone, especially with the SMS features.
These are following cons that I encountered with Tungsten/W:
1) You cannot delete the call history.
2) You have to delete the SMS outbox and inbox messages one by one.
3) You cannot send the SMS messages to a group of contacts, you have to do it one by one.
4) It's very difficult to write a SMS messages using the qwerty keypad.
5) It is not a MMS ready and cannot play polyphonic ringing tones.
6) There is no time indication in the SMS messages inbox.
7) You cannot answer the phone without the earpiece.
8) You have to charge it everyday, the talk time & standby time is not long as what the manufacturer claims.
9) Doesn't have a bluetooth & speakerphone.
I hope Palm Inc. will do something about this or else they won't get a bigger share in the PDA Phone market.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lots promised, little delivered. Wait for the next wave..., September 5, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Palm Tungsten W (Electronics)

While it's something of an improvement over ealier Palm phones, the Tungsten W is not yet the ideal phone/PDA replacement.

This is a nice PDA and a just OK phone. I was hoping Palm would do better with this. At the very least they should have included a Mic/Speaker so I don't have to grab the headset everytime a call comes in.

I wouldn't have spent my own money on this thing, I would have probably gone for the Blackberry.

Since I'm already an AT&T customer, I can switch my SIM card from the Palm TW to my phone when I need a real phone. I'd prefer something more seamless; perhaps having the W only receive calls when my cell phone is off.

PLUSES:
Nice screen
Great battery life

MINUSES:

Only works with AT&T service.
No pop up notification of SMS messages
Requires use of headset
(or extra-cost flip phone cover)
Should have speaker and microphone built in.
Because headset plug is non-standard I haven't been able
to find an over-the-ear headset to replace earbud.
Slow processor
Processor limits unit to older Palm OS
No graffiti area. Must use thumbpad.
Typical worthless Palm cover included, very few aftermarket covers yet available

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Close but not all the way there., March 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Palm Tungsten W (Electronics)

I recently purchased the "W" and found it lacking in some respects. I have to add that there were no major flaws and the unit worked as advertised, but it needs some improvements. The ear bud only phone is actually quite good and the conference features are great. It lacks a way for you to insert a "wait" in dial strings, put pauses (using commas) work fine. A speaker phone or a more stowable ear bud would have been better. I keep thinking that if I loose the ear bud, I can't use the phone. The keyboard is great, but missing are some of the navigation buttons forcing you to use the stylus. As a PDA it's not bad, but lacks all the innovations found in other units. Blue tooth is extra and even if you get the blue tooth card you can't use a blue tooth ear piece. Wireless connectivity, through the net is it's best feature. You still have to "pull" down mail and other updates, but it's suprizingly fast.

In short, I gave up my old PDA, but still keeping my other cell phone around.