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Palm Unveils Palm Tungsten T, the Most Compact and Powerful Palm Branded Handheld
New Innovations -- Slider Design, One-handed 5-way Navigation and Ultrasharp Display -- Focus on What Matters to Users
October 29, 2002 -- Delivering power and precision to professionals worldwide, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) today introduced the Palm(TM) Tungsten(TM) T handheld, a smart and pocketable business device. Mobile professionals with a taste for innovation and excellence are expected to upgrade or switch to a Palm Tungsten T handheld for business-critical functionality in an industrial-strength handheld computer.
The Palm Tungsten T handheld is the most compact Palm branded handheld on the market today and is built for what matters most to handheld users. The Palm Tungsten T handheld's design and software integration deliver smooth, one-handed data management, while new processing power and a new operating system supercharge applications -- making them faster and more efficient. A high-resolution 320x320 colour display delivers a great viewing experience, and integrated Bluetooth wireless communication capabilities enable users to communicate with other Bluetooth-enabled devices, such as printers, PCs or other handhelds.
"The Palm Tungsten T handheld is business and communications power personified in a smart, compact device," said Todd Bradley, president and chief executive officer of Palm Solutions. "It's about the data, not the desktop. We don't stuff unnecessary PC capabilities into a smaller box; we adapt technology to what matters most to people. With the Palm Tungsten T handheld, professionals can be productive wherever they are."
Palm research shows that Palm Tungsten T handheld capabilities are precisely what savvy, discerning customers want -- full functionality for popular business file formats such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word, expandability for the latest applications, and wireless connectivity. Palm Tungsten T handheld customers are strong advocates of new, well-crafted technology. They are entrepreneurs, telecommuters and executives on the move and dependent on mobile devices to excel at work.
Command of Information
The Palm Tungsten T handheld packages convenience for people
on the go. Its breakthrough slider design, 5-way navigation
and one-touch voice recording deliver ease of use. One-touch
voice recording lets users easily capture and record voice
memos, and later email them from their desktop computers.
The navigation and application buttons reside on the new "slider," which glides open when users need to input data using Palm's Graffiti(R) alphabet. For simply viewing and navigating information, which makes up approximately 90 percent of most handheld users' activities, the slider can remain closed, leaving the device in its most compact state most of the time.
The new one-handed 5-way navigator activates up, down, left and right, and select. With the navigator, users can easily launch applications and view information. Classic Palm PIM (Personal Information Management) applications -- Date Book, Address Book, Note Pad and To Do List -- have been updated to take advantage of the 5-way navigation with functionality such as Look Up, which lets users more efficiently find names and phone numbers.
Supercharged Applications
The first Palm branded handheld built with Palm OS(R) 5 and
Texas Instruments' OMAP1510 processor, the Palm Tungsten
T handheld delivers a new class of performance and power efficiency.
Users can now enjoy faster interaction with data-intensive
documents, and use Palm's new updated fonts for better
viewing. The Palm Tungsten T handheld has the power to run
rich multimedia features and software applications, such as
short video clips, digital audio files or photos, and interactive
games. In addition, the Palm Tungsten T handheld's easy-to-read,
crisp colour screen -- Palm's sharpest screen to date
-- brings new definition to presentations, spreadsheets and
images.
Wireless Communication
Built-in Bluetooth gives Palm Tungsten T handheld users the
freedom to wirelessly access email and the Internet via compatible
Bluetooth-enabled phones.(1) Palm Tungsten T handhelds also
can communicate with other Bluetooth-enabled devices, such
as printers, PCs or other handhelds. The Palm Tungsten T handheld
includes a suite of phone drivers for the most popular Bluetooth
phones on the market, so wirelessly connecting to a Bluetooth-enabled
phone now becomes much easier than before.
Built for Expansion
Users can customise and extend the capabilities of the Palm
Tungsten T handheld with Palm's dual-expansion technology,
which includes the Palm Expansion Slot for SD Cards, SDIO
and MultiMediaCard media (postage-stamp-sized cards that allow
users to access important information without sacrificing
valuable memory space), and the Palm Universal Connector for
hardware add-ons. Palm's dual-expansion technology enables
users to back up their handhelds on the go; add new software,
business applications, or memory; and attach peripherals,
such as a keyboard, a GPS receiver, or a Microsoft PowerPoint
presenter.
In a separate release today, Palm announced the Palm Ultra-Thin Keyboard, a full-size, collapsible touch-typeable keyboard. The sleek keyboard remains rigid when in use and then collapses smoothly into a compact stainless steel package. A complete list of Palm expansion cards and add-ons is available at http://www.palmone.com/asia/
Application Software
The Palm Tungsten T handheld comes bundled with 16 productivity, communication and entertainment applications. A complete list and description of applications is available at http://www.palmone.com/asia/
Memory and Battery Life
The Palm Tungsten T handheld is a 16MB device with 14MB of
actual storage capacity. Users also have the ability to store
additional applications and documents on SD Cards via the
Palm Expansion Slot. With an internal, rechargeable lithium
ion battery, the Palm Tungsten T handheld lasts up to one
week with basic PIM usage at default brightness before recharging.
(1) Internet access requires an ISP account, which may or
may not be provided by the wireless carrier.
About Palm, Inc.
With shipments of 19 million PalmTM handheld computers, many
carried in pockets, purses and briefcases around the world,
Palm delivers devices that make it easy for people to use
and keep track of what matters to them.
Information about Palm, Inc. is available at http://www.palmone.com/aboutpalm.
Palm OS is a registered trademark of Palm, Inc. Palm, Zire,
and Tungsten are trademarks of Palm, Inc.
