Palm Tungsten W =============== I have decided not to buy another unnecessary gadgets. But when Jynx wrote about the Tungsten W and C then I was not able to resist. So I ordered a cheap Tungsten W from Italy. It is an interesting device: it is about size of the old good Palm III is, it is just more rounded and slightly thicker. It can be used even with screen backlight off. It has a SD slot. It has a keyboard. So its main drawback is the build-in battery. Of course it uses different connector than older palms through it is the same connector that other old Tungstens use. It has some wireless capability: it can connect via the GPRS to send a receive e-mail and to surf the WEP pages. WWW possibly too, if only a proper browser is installed. SMSs are possible but voice calls can be done only with a wired headset. The device has no integrated microphone. So its more a communicator than the so-called "smartphone". It is interesting that all that stuff runs on a device with the Motorola DragonBall CPU from the m68k family. There is no ARM. It uses Palm OS 4.x - the last version for m68k palms. It is interesting that it has faster CPU than for example the IIIx but its user interface is noticeably slower. Its apps need more time to load, for example. At the moment I only transferred the most essential stuff from the III to this machine. I still didn't inserted the SIM card so I was not bale to test its wireless capabilities. But it can be a great wireless phlogging device because 2G networks are still available here. I should try... There is one particular issue: my device is an Italian version so the OS is in Italian. I don't speak this language nor anything similar. So some words are cryptic to me. Fortunately I know the Palm OS quite well so I often know what menu item or function should be in certain position and I can also identify program by their icons. BTW: Chiudi is OK, Impegni is ToDo, Rubrica is AddresBook... This post was written on the Palm Tungsten W.