Product review: Palm Tungsten E

I bought this Palm about five months ago. At the time I bought it, it was $199.95 @ Staples. Owning serveral Palm devices before I was no stranger to what I wanted/needed. I wanted color screen, expandability of SD slot (SD cards with programs or extra storage), and price was a major consideration. I saw this puppy, and immediatley thought to myself "That's the one" I took it home and loaded the software on my laptop that came with it, and started using it the next day. Since then, I have gotten some applications for it that were available through third party companies that make the device alot more fun. I grabbed Repligo 2.0, Agendus, and 3Nity's Password keeper/generator. I love these applications, but I have ran into a serious problem latley. I have switched laptops with my wife (I got a new Dell) and when I switched PC's the 3rd party programs I had on my old laptop I lost (I forgot to keep them on media, before giving the unit to my wife) Worst yet, I cannot remember where I ordered the programs from, since I didn't order them from the companies that wrote the software. I was alittle bummed out about that, and recently the Palm started "going dead" when I turn it on to use it. The battery is so drained, it won't even come out of a black screen. If it does come on, it has a message "Fatal Exception Error" on the screen, and I have to do a hard reset to get it to work again. This is really frustrating. Only thing I can figure, is that when I sync it with Outlook, it is picking up that I want to be reminded for an appointment, it flips on at that reminder time, reminds me (The unit is usually in my laprop bag when this happens) and it stays on until the battery is good and dead. This really sucks, because when I need it - it's dead. It is a great little PDA when it is working, and give it good marks because of that. I think they should make it "auto shut down" to save battery if yo can't get to it, so it will work when you need to use it.

I rate this product 4.0 / 5.0