PALM TX.. is now available!!

[TripleNickle]

I think this is a possible competitor to the 770. It would be nice if someone can do a comparison.

http://www.palm.com

[Reggie]

So the TX is really $299. Let's see if Nokia will release the Nokia 770 with a lower price. If the $250 rumor is true, I commend Nokia for waiting for Palm to launch the TX before the 770. :)

Apple will also reveal their new products today. Can't wait!

[TripleNickle]

So the TX is really $299. Let's see if Nokia will release the Nokia 770 with a lower price. If the $250 rumor is true, I commend Nokia for waiting for Palm to launch the TX before the 770. :)

Apple will also reveal their new products today. Can't wait!

Yes, the Apple announcement should be interesting!

[Crage]

Ya a comparision would be nice!

[sigger]

Biggest thing for me is the resolution. The TX only has 320x480 versus the Nokia 770's 800x480. Really need that have a top notch web browser.

Besides, I prefer Linux over the new Palm Garnet OS. I'm guessing there's a deep bench of developers ready to write/adapt less expensive/open source Linux progs. There seems to be a declining Palm programmer base and possibly even fewer who will program for Garnet.

[TripleNickle]

Biggest thing for me is the resolution. The TX only has 320x480 versus the Nokia 770's 800x480. Really need that have a top notch web browser.

Besides, I prefer Linux over the new Palm Garnet OS. I'm guessing there's a deep bench of developers ready to write/adapt less expensive/open source Linux progs. There seems to be a declining Palm programmer base and possibly even fewer who will program for Garnet.

I agree about the screen resolution.. I prefer bigger screen, "bigger" resolution.

Here is a review of the T/X. The screen is 3.8 in. diagonally vs. 4.1 for the 770.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1869865,00.asp

[TripleNickle]

I had a chance to see the TX at Best Buy the other day...but unable to "surf the web" on it as a demo... the resolution looks really good. If the 770 comes out at $350 USD or higher. I think I will look at the TX a little closer. The Life Drive is nice but $499, too much for what I am looking for...The TX is a better alternative to the 770.

[TripleNickle]

Here is an interesting reference to the Palm TX and the delayed 770.

http://www.dealhack.com/archives/2005/10/palm_tungsten_tx_internet_awar.html

[philmcneal]

hm the plam tx is not bad at all although it doesn't come with wireless G! then again b is pretty fast enough for surfing and such. Hm yes the resolution is lower but the price sounds about right. Hm

[Hedgecore]

I guess it depends on what one is looking for. For me, the appeal of the 770 is this: It's a WiFi enabled portable linux device. Nokia issued a stroke of genius by going with a linux based OS. A year from now there will be a staggering amount of software available for it; compare the number of apps today to a month ago, and the device isn't even out yet.

Palm's clunky OS may be able to tell soccer mom's they're late to pick Billy up from practice, but I'll take a scaled down open computing platform any day.

[philmcneal]

i'm just worried about sluggish video performance for the nokia! as long i can get 30 fps i'm happy ;D


edit: but yes power to open source!

[Hedgecore]

At second glance, I don't mean to come off as if I'll be using it 100% to develop my way to a better world. I also want video playback, picture storage, music playback, etc, but the viewpoint I'm taking is that while the default apps may fail at some of these tasks, others will replace them in no time.

Let's see the Palm boast that ;)

[LilNdn]

Palm and 770 is like the same thing except 770 has better ****.

[thenabbster]

keep in mind the hardware capabilities when choosing between the palm tx and the 770 or any other handeld device:

-the palm tx has 128mb of ram with a 312mhz processor
-the 770 has a 64mb ram with 220mhz processor

the palm wins in pure power
what does that mean? the palm is faster, and it can run more apps at the same time without getting memory errors from the os

(i hear a lot of european users and even the nokia management themselves say that the 770 power is lacking, and users are getting a lot of memory errors if you have more apps open, this means you have to keep closing apps whenever you start a new one)

[daf]

does palm tx have a dsp ?
in 770, there is 2 processors (1 for multimedia and 1 to the rest)

[thenabbster]

does palm tx have a dsp ?
in 770, there is 2 processors (1 for multimedia and 1 to the rest)


I know its a dual processor, i thought the total speed was 220mhz though, i could wrong, please correct me if i am

[daf]

1 dual core processor ;)
all the details here :
http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=11991&path=templatedata/cm/product/data/omap_1710