Foreign Perspectives

One of the problems that we have these days is that sometimes there’s just too much choice of little gadjets available.

Take the Palm series of handhelds for example.

Now, you can pretty much discount the Z22 as a teaser product or toy as it’s basically just there to fill in a gap at the bottom end of the market and not, in my view, a really serious contender.

Move up about 50% in price and you get to the likes of the Tungsten E2 shown here. That gives you a pretty wide range of funcions with everything from a sensible SD card slot to hold movies and whatnot to Bluetooth. You can even surf on this if your phone has bluetooth too.

However, add another 50% in the price and you’ll get the TX. This little baby has a much bigger screen and adds wifi to the list of functions (along with a massive list of capabilities).

Both will let you work with MS Office text and spreadsheets and you can even exchange e-mails with them.

Just to complicate your life even further, you can get the TX on ebay for much the same price as the E2 in the shops.