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I'm "new" to this Palm world, I used to use an old Sony Clié before and have
earnt an used Tungsten W.

Why is it so hard to find software, references and information about this
hardware? Was it taken out of market due to some defect? What is wrong with
it? :-) Is there some compatible hardware that I can take a look at?

I'm with mine for two weeks and haven't found out nothing (too) wrong, yet.

Thanks,
--
Godoy. <godoy@ieee.org>

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Jorge Godoy wrote:

> I'm "new" to this Palm world, I used to use an old Sony Clié before and have
> earnt an used Tungsten W.
>
> Why is it so hard to find software, references and information about this
> hardware? Was it taken out of market due to some defect? What is wrong with
> it? :-) Is there some compatible hardware that I can take a look at?

The Tungsten W is an OS 4 device that was selling at the price of an
OS 5 device at the time OS 5 devices were already available. So the
only reason to buy it was its wireless capabilities. In other words,
there is nothing wrong with it; it's just that it was never all that
common a device (I think).

- Logan

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Logan Shaw <lshaw-usenet@austin.rr.com> writes:

> Jorge Godoy wrote:
>
> > I'm "new" to this Palm world, I used to use an old Sony Clié before and have
> > earnt an used Tungsten W.
> >
> > Why is it so hard to find software, references and information about this
> > hardware? Was it taken out of market due to some defect? What is wrong with
> > it? :-) Is there some compatible hardware that I can take a look at?
>
> The Tungsten W is an OS 4 device that was selling at the price of an
> OS 5 device at the time OS 5 devices were already available. So the
> only reason to buy it was its wireless capabilities. In other words,
> there is nothing wrong with it; it's just that it was never all that
> common a device (I think).

And in addition, you don't seek software for some hardware.

You seek an operating system for some hardware, and then you seek
software for this operating system!

You have to search for Palm OS 4 software, not for Tungsten W software.

--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not
want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein

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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:22:04 -0300, Jorge Godoy had this to say...

>
> I'm "new" to this Palm world, I used to use an old Sony Clié before and have
> earnt an used Tungsten W.
>
> Why is it so hard to find software, references and information about this
> hardware? Was it taken out of market due to some defect? What is wrong with
> it? :-) Is there some compatible hardware that I can take a look at?
>
> I'm with mine for two weeks and haven't found out nothing (too) wrong, yet.
>
>
> Thanks,
>

<http://www.palmone.com/us/support/tungstenw/>
Palmones support website will take you right there.

--
Hope this helps.
Jim Anderson
( 8(|) To email me just pull my_finger

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In article <uahbq1-vdu.ln1@wintermute.g2ctech>, Jorge Godoy
<godoy@ieee.org> wrote:

> I'm "new" to this Palm world, I used to use an old Sony Clié before and have
> earnt an used Tungsten W.
>
> Why is it so hard to find software, references and information about this
> hardware? Was it taken out of market due to some defect? What is wrong with
> it? :-) Is there some compatible hardware that I can take a look at?

Palm apps at www.handango.com or www.palmgear.com

Device info at www.palmone.com

Did you read your (electronic) manual?

Where have you been looking?

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Jorge Godoy <godoy@ieee.org> wrote:
> The only problem is that "all" the "nice" applications are coming
> with OS 5 support only (I think due to the Hi-Res, which I have here
> but isn't recognized by, e.g., Power 48 -- an HP simulator for the
> Palm -- and other apps.).

Don't know what you consider to be a 'nice' application, but nearly
all professional Palm software I know is available as PalmOS 4 version
as well.

If you need a HP like calculator, have a look at

- HP41CX Emulator
<http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=software.showsoftware&prodID=40123>
- MathUCalc <http://www.creativecreek.com/mathupro.html>

> Is it possible to upgrade from a OS 4.1.2 (this is what comes with
> mine) to an OS 5 for this hardware?

No. OS 5 and higher uses a completely different processor
architecture, thus you cannot upgrade from OS 4 to OS 5.

Regards,

Guido

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