It still has good qualities: a good screen, good maneuverability and good processing speed.

What it doesn't have is good support. Around month 10, I started having issues with a shift in the keyboard. Type 'k' and you get a 'j'. First it was only w/the right side of the keyboard....then the left. Then it switched: Type 'j' and you'd get a 'k'. Completely screwed up.

The odd thing is - I ended up getting used to typing that way.

Redigitizing helped for short periods of time. Maybe 1/2 a day. But always it would go back to being f***ed up. The Palm site had a patch that worked for about 10 minutes. Reading on-line, this was not just my problem - but fairly wide-spread.

Palm was of NO HELP. I had no 3rd party software loaded onto my Tungsten - so that wasn't the issue. To have Palm "fix" it - I'd have to send it in, which was a difficult option. Try to fix it yourself and you violate the warranty.

I ended up buying a new PDA (which I'll review after a sufficient amount of time in using) and giving my Tungsten way to someone whom was going to attempt troubleshooting.

we asked, Palm listened; Behold the Tungsten T (Rating: 5.00)
Review : If my desktop computer is Goliath, the palm Tungsten T is king David. With 16 mb of ram, a paper white crisp new screen, and an enhanced speaker that can wake up my suite mate a room away, Palm's new machine is something I'm very excited about. Never before has palm introduced so many innovations at once. The first thing anyone notices before even using the Tungsten is that it has a 5 way navigator button set in the middle of the four hardware buttons. I have gotten accustomed to it with only minutes of use, and all I can say is that this button is very nice. It allows one handed access to any application, and with the palm apps like address book and memopad, I can scroll through files and open them, all with a single finger. By pressing and holding the center of the button, I can power the unit on and browse applications. Imagine being at a stop light with a burger in one hand. You could easily look up a phone number using the other hand and the navigator button. How about that for making ur life easier! Forget the stylus for simple tasks from now on!
The second most obvious hardware innovation is the sliding mechanism that alternatively covers and uncovers the graffiti area to give the user the option of making the unit ultra compact when access to the graffiti area isn't necessary. Nice touch, in my opinion and also a design necessity for Palm since including the navigator button and an open grafitti area would have otherwise made the unit larger then its parents. Palm has also made itself head to head with the Sony clie' by including superior audio input and output. The Tungsten comes with a well made microphone to record voice notes. You even have the option of recording the notes directly to the expansion card, which gives you hours of recorded notes on a single expansion card.

Good features but serious hardware bug (Rating: 2.00)
Review : Background information first: I'm a health care provider, so I use the tungsten for inputting and modifying appointments several times per hour, 40+ hours a week. For me, the ease of inputting and accessing the address book, date book, and to-do's is the make it or break it factor. I upgraded from the Palm IIIC because even though it always served me without any problems, it was getting slow in searching for patients' names after 3 years of appointments built up in my datebook.

Good news second: The display is pretty and easily readable; the form factor is nice and small so I can just keep it in my pants pocket; it plays mp3's very nicely with a free download of the RealPlayer; the voice recorder activates at the press of a hardware button and comes in handy while driving; this PDA can sort through 3+ years of my appointments in no time flat.

Bad news third: Under serious usage, the digitizer becomes erratic and terribly frustrating. Where you place the stylus can be off by as much as several characters, first one way, then another, then back again, with no predictability. Unfortunately, you usually spot the error after writing in the wrong area, or worse, pasting instead of copying. It requires almost continual recalibration. It's clearly a hardware problem since tapping it on the side causes it to happen, but it's random and unpredictable. The result is a much slower inputting of data (and ample swearing).

Perhaps worse is that the support I have gotten from Palm has been very, very frustrating. They have replaced the tungsten with another return a couple different times, and the exact same bug was present in each machine. While the tech people adamantly deny a hardware problem, one of their engineers was upfront with me. He acknowledged the hardware problem, but unfortunately couldn't do anything beyond sending me another or advising me to briskly smack it open and shut several times.

Conclusion: If you don't demand too much of the digitizer, you'll probably be happy. If you get in any trouble and need tech support, you may be very unhappy with the company. Personally, since I like the Palm OS so much, I am about to purchase a Sony Clie.

This is an "OEM" product ! (Rating: 3.00)
Review : I received a PDA Tungten T that is in a repackaged box, no manuals and software CD. I wrote an e-mail to the seller, they replied to me: "If you read the ad specific to KM Electronics, you will see that our item is sold OEM (meaning without manual, software, CD or box)...., and You are quoting from Amazon's site which is different from ours and different from where you purchased. We are a "sub-store" of Amazon with our own product description. We do not offer the software, etc. However, feel free to return your item according to our policy below.......,
As stated in our Amazon return policy, if you must return a product we charge a $15 restocking fee...."