Comments on: Underwhelmed - The Tungsten T5 http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2004/10/04/underwhelmed-the-tungsten-t5/ The journey of a reluctant writer Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:22:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Anonymous http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2004/10/04/underwhelmed-the-tungsten-t5/#comment-163 Anonymous Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:50:00 +0000 http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2004/10/04/underwhelmed-the-tungsten-t5/#comment-163 ""Even if this weren't lame for making you lug around a cable, it's only 160MB! As many of my regular readers know, I work at CompUSA. We sell 256MB flash drives on sale for $50. On sale days, even 1GB flash drives sell for under $100. So PalmOne really expects people to pay $400 for a 160MB flash drive?"" I personally wouldn't touch this. I'm quite content with my Zire 71, and will be more agitated when I'm get into the market for wireless internet, more RAM, and other features I'd like to see from P1, but I can still ppl buying this. It's not gonna sell like hotcakes, but ppl who work with Palms and need the memory will find the large hi-res screen, lots of memory, and ease of use to be assets. You CAN carry a seperate 1GB flash drive and PDA, for more capacity and cheaper than the T5, but the flash on the T5 is integrated with the PDA, so ppl can store tons of (relativley speaking) music, pics, office files, on it and still have access to them. They can work on them and it'll be modified. The multimedia can be accessed by the T5 directly. I think this is the convenience the T5 is trying to tout “”Even if this weren’t lame for making you lug around a cable, it’s only 160MB! As many of my regular readers know, I work at CompUSA. We sell 256MB flash drives on sale for $50. On sale days, even 1GB flash drives sell for under $100. So PalmOne really expects people to pay $400 for a 160MB flash drive?”"

I personally wouldn’t touch this. I’m quite content with my Zire 71, and will be more agitated when I’m get into the market for wireless internet, more RAM, and other features I’d like to see from P1, but I can still ppl buying this. It’s not gonna sell like hotcakes, but ppl who work with Palms and need the memory will find the large hi-res screen, lots of memory, and ease of use to be assets. You CAN carry a seperate 1GB flash drive and PDA, for more capacity and cheaper than the T5, but the flash on the T5 is integrated with the PDA, so ppl can store tons of (relativley speaking) music, pics, office files, on it and still have access to them. They can work on them and it’ll be modified. The multimedia can be accessed by the T5 directly. I think this is the convenience the T5 is trying to tout

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2004/10/04/underwhelmed-the-tungsten-t5/#comment-162 Anonymous Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:31:00 +0000 http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2004/10/04/underwhelmed-the-tungsten-t5/#comment-162 Sorry just wanted to say that the T5 is most definately not the first PDA to use nonvolatile flash memory. All of the Apple Newton Message Pad range (the device for which the term PDA was coined) used nonvolatile flash memory and the first of them was released as far back as 1993. Sorry just wanted to say that the T5 is most definately not the first PDA to use nonvolatile flash memory. All of the Apple Newton Message Pad range (the device for which the term PDA was coined) used nonvolatile flash memory and the first of them was released as far back as 1993.

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