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User Submitted PalmOne Tungsten T2 Handheld Reviews (cont...)Date: 2004-04-13 Improvement on a great theme I am a former owner of the original T|T. After a little over a year of T|T use, the power button became much less responsive. After several calls to PalmOne's customer service and speaking to several nice Indian folks (Note: PalmOne customer service is obviously outsourced overseas), I was told that it would be $125 to have the unit repaired. This was too much to invest in old hardware. I enjoyed the small form factor of that device so much, I decided to buy a T2 (depite PalmOne's abysmal customer service). The appeal of the screen has been mentioned several times. I would agree tremendously! I thought the original screen was pretty good. However, the 320x320 display on this unit makes the original T|T look like someone put window tint on it. I also enjoyed the extra internal memory. The subtle changes with the Palm OS were nice too: like hitting the 5 way button to the right when in your address book to look a name up and the color themes. One aspect that I just could not bring myselft to do was to adopt Graffiti 2. I have used the original Graffiti for so long that using anything else is heresy. For those that are like me, simply grab your old handheld with Graffiti 1 and get a file manager program. Search the ROM for the following two files: Graffiti Library.prc, and Graffiti Library_enUS.prc. Now beam them to your new handheld. Do a Soft Reset on your new handheld and PRESTO, you now have Graffiti 1 again. If I had any advice, it would be to buy PalmOne products with a credit card that doubles the manufacture's warranty because their customer service is terrible and they will deny warranty service if your handheld is 1yr and 1day old. My T2 never synced satisfactorily with my Dell, Windows-XP-equipped computer (which handles other addons including a digicam and ipod perfectly). Eventually, Palm tech support threw up their hands and allowed me to return it for repair. Over a month later I got it back --incapable of even taking a charge. Following more consultations and negotiations, Palm finally agreed to send me a reconditioned unit. The refurbished lemon arrived after another few weeks and refuses to synch at all, even with extensive kibbitzing from the tech staff over the phone (for which they originally tried to soak me for $25 since it had been more than 90 days since I bought the original lemon). The final straw was that, having followed in minute, cautious detail all Palm's written and phone instructions to the letter, I lost -- what, 100s of hours-worth of data-entry over the years? -- when the copy-data-before-reinstall-software procedure saved exactly none of my files. Unretrievable, gone. Refund: don't even think about it. I will never buy another product from this company. In order to save a few bucks, I made the mistake of ordering my handheld from palmone.com instead of from Amazon. I received the box in the mail...but with NO HANDHELD IN THE BOX! I have been working with PalmOne for five days, and I still do not have a handheld. While they are polite when I call, I don't think they believe me. I may be out $250. Amazon is very reliable, but I have nothing good to say about the service from PalmOne. They can't even manage to get the handhelds into the boxes.
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