My Mobile Solution: Palm Tungsten T2 and Sony Ericsson T610 cell phone
I bought a Palm Tungsten T2 PDA several months ago. It is a nice PDA, for more details, you can visit this review. To summerize the specifications:
Size: 4.0-4.8″ x 3.0″ x 0.6″
Weight: 5.6 oz.
Processor: OMAP1510 (ARM925 core + DSP); OS 5.2.1
Memory: RAM: 32MB (29.5MB avail.); flash ROM: 8MB US, int’l
Expansion: SD / MMC
Screen: 320x320 pixel; 65k color; transflective
Audio: speaker; stereo headset jack, mono mic
Power: LiIon Poly (3.7V, 900 mAh)
Connectivity: UC (USB, serial), IrDA, SDIO, BT 1.1
I added a 128 MB SD card, most of it is holding my e-books. Actually, the reason I bought this PDA is to use it as an e-book reader. Before I bought this PDA, I have a Palm III since 1998, it served me well for many years, however, I am not satisfied with its low-contrast monochrome display. The monochromatic display is OK to display contact information and appointments, but for extended e-book reading, it is excessive inadequate: my eyes get stressed after 30 minutes, and the puny 2 MB memory can hold few tomes, to make things worse, with such a small memory, it is merely impossible to install a dictionary in it. For reading e-books, my old Palm III simply is not up to the job. To search for a right e-book reader, I need a high contrast color screen and a big enough memory to comfortably hold many e-books and a decent dictionary. T2 fulfills all these requirements, and I am rather happy with it.
The best part of T2 is its Bluetooth connectivity. Bluetooth is a technology intended to replace those nasty cables connecting PDAs with PCs, mobile phones with computers, and many other digital gadgets. Compared to Wi-Fi, it has shorter range, 10 meters or 33 feet is the upper limit. However, it suitable for its purpose: to replace those short cables connecting your gadgets.
I always dreamed of a way to connect my Palm with some kind of mobile communication device, so I can send emails and browse the web on my PDA, on the road. A cell phone with data services is a find candidate, but before the advent of Bluetooth technology, IR is the only wireless choice. Of course, some vendors sell serial cables, but that’s rather cubersome to carry a cable to connect your cell phone and PDA. The problem with IR is, you must hold your PDA and cell phone at the same time, or have a level surface to put them, facing the IR ports to each other. Needless to say, that’s quite a weired pose when you are on a train or a bus. It takes ome acrobatics training to align the IR ports.
Here comes the Bluetooth. Instead of line of sight requirement of IR, you can put the cell phone anyware within 10 meters around your PDA: your belt, your bag, the desk, the couch, you name it. On the train, you can tuck away your cell phone in a suitable place, and operate your PDA without attract much undue attractions. Since I already have a Bluetooth enabled PDA, T2, all I need is a Bluetooth cell phone, here comes Sony Ericsson T610.
Appearance
Screen shot
Here is the web page of Sony Ericsson T610.
Features
12 icon graphic desktop
Music DJ(patent applications pending)
Aluminum body
Bluetooth wireless technology
Calendar
Camera built-in
Color Display (65536 colors)
128x160 pixels display
Contacts
DRM (Digital Rights Management)
Dynamic Memory 2MB
e-mail
Games
GPRS 4+1
Infrared
Java applications
Multimedia messaging (MMS)
Polyphonic Sound 32 Voices
Synchronization
Themes
WTLS Class 3 - full WAP security
WAP 2.0
