Tungsten T5
The Tungsten T5 is a Personal Digital Assistant made by palmOne, Inc. It was the combination of the Tungsten E and Tungsten T3, replacing the standard "Graffiti" area with 320x160 pixels worth of screen. It still retains the shape of the Tungsten E, but is slightly thicker. It is the first Palm PDA to have 320x480 pixels all revealed without a "slider," as used in the Tungsten T3, though other brands have had sliderless HVGA displays for years. It is also the first to have 256 MB of memory (versus 64 MB in the Tungsten T3), 160 MB of it acting as a "USB Flash Drive", and to have 416 MHz of processing power.
While the Tungsten T5 was meant to be a replacement for the Tungsten T3, it is missing many of the high-end features (which made the Tungsten T3 a "true" high-end handheld) including: charge-indicator LED, vibrating alarm, HotSync cradle, and voice memo function. Also, due to the 'flash drive' type storage space in the T5, data backup programs in place at the time of the devices debut are incapable of performing properly, backing up to the inbuilt memory instead of an external memory card. Not to be mentioned was that a lot of third-party programs and/or device drivers seem to be incompatible also due to the memory structure of the Tungsten T5. The Tungsten E-derived design also created some power-user outcries. When the handheld was announced prior to its release, there has been a lot of unfavorable remarks.
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