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Tungsten T5 Next Week?!!
![]() Reliable sources familiar with the company's plans suggest that the new Tungsten's launch could come as early as next Monday. The new machine is expected to be dubbed the Tungsten T5, skipping past the T4 moniker to avoid offending buyers in nations for whom the number four is held to be bad karma. |
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Neat!
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From CNET: Updated Tungsten, Treo set for release
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Did you hear about the rumor that the T5 won't have WiFi? Maaaan, that would stink!
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I'm not surprised that it won't have WiFi. The rumoured specs were a little too good to be true.
Anyway, 256Mb RAM is not a bad thing at all. That amount of memory and the new OS6 will make a whole new class of applications possible. Technologies like voice-over-IP (Skype) are now within reach of PalmOS handhelds. You can't really do these kind of things under OS5. |
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The Tungsten T5 is actually going to be shipping with Garnet (OS5.4), not Cobalt (OS6), if you believe this 1src article. But if you believe this other article, it will run OS6.
Either way, its horribly ugly and looks thick in the two large pictures of it I have here. Its certainly a few millimeters thicker than my Tungsten T2 and my Tungsten T3 devices, by comparing them to the pictures. If it doesn't contain wifi, then there is no point to upgrading. I've been told that that the reason SanDisk and other manufacturers of wifi SD cards have held off, is specifically because Palm wanted to release their new device with built-in wifi capabilities. If there were wifi SD cards available, there would be no compelling reason to upgrade to a T5 when it arrived. It makes perfect sense, and Palm has done it before in prior years. The other bit that seems to suck about the T5, is that:
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I'll venture a guess, myself, based on not much more than intuition...
* OS5 * No WiFi Built In * A little bulky in size After Hacker's post, though, I'm still hopeful for OS6. That would be exciting. But OS5 is okay because I get compatibility and stability. The newest technology can wait a year or so. But I'm getting a T5 day one anyway, because I want to upgrade my Clie SJ33. I can't wait! Biggest choice for me will be what accessories to get. And believe it or not, I'm happy with the rumored specs. It will seem like I'm jumping into the future after my OS4 66MHz 16meg SJ33! As long as it fits in my pocket and has decent battery life, I'm happy. I'll just upgrade again for built-in WiFi, OS6, etc. I've resigned myself to expecting PalmOne to be a year or so behind the PPC hardware curve, but it's worth it to me because I like PalmOS and it seems to make better use of the processor and memory. But no one has answered one of the really major questions about this new T5 -- Does it come with Bejeweled???!!!!!!! |
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If the T|5 is released at a price point of $399, it should have Wifi built in IMO or PalmOne better offer one heck of a package deal for the Wifi SDIO card. If not, I fear more and more current PalmOne/PalmOS owners will be tempted by the WM2003/PPC side.
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Not to mention that if you have to have a wifi card in your SD slot, it will make one of the main functions of having wifi moot: namely grabbing files and dumping them into your storage card. Though 256 megs of RAM will offset this, you may wind up moving files twice to get them onto a card. Pretty dumb!
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If it really doesn't come with Cobalt (OS 6.1) installed, it would fit with what Morpheus said some days earlier... that Cobalt-based "smartphones" are not ready before beginning of next year. If not for smartphones, why should it be different for a PDA...
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Or maybe OS 6.0 is for PDA's while OS 6.1 contains enhancements for SmartPhones? Just speculating here.
Anyway, if the T5 does not have OS6, there's not much point in buying one, at least not for me. All will be revealed tomorrow. |
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Or while we we're wildly speculating: maybe OS6 is still having the bugs worked out and will be released as an upgrade for the T5 by early next year...
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Or maybe the T5 runs under Windows Mobile 2005.
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