Summary: So your looking for a hand held that does everything? You want a phone, MP3, wireless, ect? Stop reading and go buy one of those new fangled phones. But when the battery on that phone goes dead so you cannot call anyone because you were playing games or listening to MP3s, don't come crying to me.

If your going to have a phone get a phone. If you want everything else, along with that phone, get a T/X.

If you have ever owned a palm pilot before, you know that when your battery goes dead that you loose everything on your machine. Not with the T/X. Its 128 meg of memory is like the flash memory cards it will stay in even after you lose power. My old Zire 71 got wiped every time I forgot to charge it.

Battery life. Palm cut back on the processor speed to help extend the battery life. The Zire 72 and some of the tungsten class have a faster processor but a shorter battery life. I really haven't noticed the difference in speed.

Screen size. The T/X has a virtural grafitti area which means that when you dont need to write anything you can remove it and have this great big beautiful screen. The screen can be turned 90 degrees for an even bigger view of what ever your looking at. The only complaint I have is its still hard to see the screen on bright sunny days. I have the same problem with my V3 Phone.

Multimedia. Speaking of my V3 phone, it does have a nice camera on it. With the built in bluetooth on it and my T/X
I can move the pictures I take on my dinky screen phone and
put them on the big screen of the T/X. Boy do they look nice. Get a free program called the Core Media Player and you can watch movies, see pictures, listen to MP3s on the T/X's built in speaker. Try that on you IPod when you've lost your head phones. The T/X has a built in SD slot so you can store movies, pictures MP3s, and programs on the memory cards. Even though the current limit on the cards is 2 gigabites, I'm sure that the palm community will write something to allow access to larger 4 gig and larger cards in the future.

Wireless. The T/X can access wireless networks any where. Coffee house, library, around town, your neighbors as long as the network is not security locked. Down load your email sync your Avant Go cruse the internet. The problem I have is that you do it at B speed, G would be faster but I'm sure that Palm did it to save on the battery.

To sum up I've never written a review before. I am compelled to endorse this product because of the positive experience I have had with the T/X for the last year and a half. During that time I have carried My T/X every day and would be lost with out it. It is the pinnacle of the Palm handhelds.

Summary: I'm an upgrader from a Palm 515, and I actually like Graffiti. But I find with the TX I use the \"displayed Keyboard\" mode better, and find it easy and fast. Overall menus and functions are well done.

The new display is very clear, and crisp. The hotsync operations are very fast, and the Excel/Word/PDF capability is great. The Palm TX is very convenient for reviewing and making minor changes to documents. I like being able to switch from portraight to landscape display modes.

I like the Wifi capability. But if you use this a lot, plan on charging once a day. Otherwise, without using Wifi, battery life is several days(4).

Summary: This is my third Palm (fifth PDA) and I purchased it to replace my Tungsten E (which I liked very much). The integrated WiFi & BlueTooth, bigger screen with landscape/portrait capabilities and larger memory were most appealing. The device looks cool and the sound is much improved with the larger speaker. It's a bit heavier too, making me much less worried about breaking it.

HOWEVER, this device has serious OS issues and continues to get worse the longer I own the device. I sometimes have to do a soft reset 5-8 times per day to turn it on. As a result, I need to charge the device as often as possible. I have searched countless user forums in search of a solution only come up with multiple replications of my problem with no solution available to date from Palm. In an effort to pinpoint the issue I have removed all third-party software and run the device \"stand alone\" using only the basic organizer functions with no better results.

I would recommend this device only to those who are willing to overlook some annoying software bugs.