12-10-2002, 11:40 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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The Palm Tungsten DOES come with an MP3 Player!
I'm not trying to bash Palm today, I'm really not, but this is just too ironic to pass up. One of the common criticisms of the Palm Tungsten is that Palm had the foresight to include a headphone jack (good) but no audio playback software (bad). This can be remedied by third party software of course, but it's an often-criticised aspect of the Tungsten. Palm has launched a new promotion that offers a Creative Labs MP3 player with the purchase of a Tungsten...so now Palm can really say "Sure the Tungsten comes with an MP3 player!" :lilangel:
Hmm. Now that I think about it, perhaps this means Microsoft should bundle a copy of Office XP with every Pocket PC so we can work with documents, even if it is on our desktop PC. :lol:
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12-10-2002, 11:47 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Re: The Palm Tungsten DOES come with an MP3 Player!
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Hmm. Now that I think about it, perhaps this means Microsoft should bundle a copy of Office XP with every Pocket PC so we can work with documents, even if it is on our desktop PC. :lol:
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You know, this is just as brilliant. But before long, they're going to start giving out copies of Office 2000. :P
Actually, Corel made a lot of money out of selling old versions of CorelDRAW back in the old days for cheap...
This truly feels even more satirical than the previous post, btw.
--bdj
p.s. Previous conversation on this topic (and some more detail) is here...
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12-10-2002, 11:55 PM
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12-10-2002, 11:58 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Bwahahahahaahahahhahahaha :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Glad to see someone keeping up on the latest from Palm while I am out. :wink:
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12-11-2002, 12:16 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 89
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I remember when
I am pretty sure that when I bought my first CE based PPC, the Everex Manager, Microsoft gave me a free version of 98 Plus :lol:
When I bought my Casio E-105 I think I received a natural keyboard.
With my new Dell, I got everything I wanted for half of what I would have paid a few months ago. Life is good. Freebies are for inferior products with poor pricing.
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12-11-2002, 01:01 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Honestly, you try to spoof Palm and then they go and do something even funnier! :P :lol: You gotta love em! :wink:
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12-11-2002, 01:19 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 178
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Where is Foo Fighter when you need him..... :P
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12-11-2002, 01:45 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 725
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
Bwahahahahaahahahhahahaha :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Glad to see someone keeping up on the latest from Palm while I am out. :wink:
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Laughing at palm, what an interesting way to spend your 2000th post 
(congratulations btw) 
Then again, it turns out it may very well not be your 2000th post
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12-11-2002, 02:24 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by Busdriver
Where is Foo Fighter when you need him..... :P
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No, I won't be defending Palm here. The only reason I spoke up on behalf of the Zire is because people keep bashing a product that never was intended for this audience. If you're going to make fun of the Zire, you may as well bash Franklin Paper Organizers while you're at it.
Tungsten on the other hand is fair game, and hunting season is open. I owned a Tungsten, for one month, and ended up sending it back. Yeah, the design is really slick, and form factor is awesome....but Palm just had to ruin my experience by going with a REFLECTIVE display that succumbed to those dreaded dust specs. And frankly there is no way Tungsten is worth $500 now that Dell has reset the color PDA price-scale.
And it turns out that Tungsten sucks at digital audio. The volume isn't loud enough, and apparently there is a bug in ROM that truncates all audio to near mono quality. Palm is working on a fix...they say. But I wonder if this problem really can be fixed. If not, this issue is going to bite Palm in the ass on a much larger scale than the M130 color fiasco.
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12-11-2002, 02:34 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Jul 2003
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MP3
I remember having a 'discussion' with one of my friends.. an admitted Palm fanatic. He was going on and on about why memory was a non-issue. Palm apps were small and MS apps bloated. Sheepishly, I knew that he was kind right. That said however, memory is cheap these days and no matter how small you make an application, files like MP3s don't get smaller on a Palm. One of the problems with Palm trying to do multimedia is still the anemic memory size in most devices.
Of course, the applies to Palm devices that want to be a media tool.... and include a stereo headphone jack.
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