Remember when business buyers had unlimited budgets for technology? Well, we can't, either. Enter the new Tungsten E, the spiritual successor to the popular Palm V and m500 series. It's built for business but equipped for multimedia as well, though playing MP3s requires a memory expansion card.
Weighing just 4.6 ounces and measuring 4.5 by 3.1 by 0.5 inches (HWD), the sleek Tungsten E has a remarkably bright 320-by-320 transflective display. It's ready for all standard Palm business applications. With the addition of an MMC or SD card to store media files and a pair of stereo earphones (neither is included), it's suitable for on-the-road entertainment purposes.
The $200 Tungsten E is the same price as the entry-level HP and Dell Windows Mobile PDAs, which are larger and heavier. It also goes up against the Sony Clié SJ33 ($220 street).
The Tungsten E's 126-MHz CPU and 32MB of RAM are about twice the speed and capacity of the Sony Clié SJ33. It comes with the newest Palm OS and PIM software, but the Sony unit has the advantage of the much-appreciated jog-dial, plus Sony's excellent proprietary interface and applications. But all in all, the Tungsten E offers a great value in a powerful and highly mobile business device.
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