Retro Review: Palm TX - PalmOS WiFi & Bluetooth PDA

In this retro review, we take a look back at the Palm TX - a high-end PDA that integrated infrared beaming, WiFi, and Bluetooth. The impressive pocket computer also housed a 3.9" display, SD card reader, and the 312 MHz Intel XScale PXA 270 processor...
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[@YFNGamer1]

My dad had one of these. I'm only 19 and can already say "back in my day..."

[@Javesike]

We used these back in elementary to play games! It takes me back time since I remember using these in 2008.

[@yaya2006]

I am a Plam guy for long time. My first one was Plam IIIxe. TX is the best PDA of all times and HP killed it! I still have it and i have an external keyboard too. This was so useful and practical. Today it is parked in my place and it has been replaced by samsung galaxy note 3 which is as useful as Plam TX. Great review!

[@yaya2006]

Then they are anti cool technology :)

[@lenytiangsonhodges8156]

Wtf is a plam?

[@anthonyr.9566]

hey hey hey!! TCL, the chinese tech megacorporation has purchased the rights to the palm name and has confirmed there will be new palm phones coming in 2018

[@drac124]

Same here. Had a palm m130 and they I got a Note 3. Tip for you: do not change your note 3 for anything. They only make 16:9 phones nowadays and the screen is ridiculous compared to a Note 3. Note 3 screen is amazing, in quality and size. I don't have any phone, its Oneplus 5T which have 6 inches against 5.3 of Note 3. Still its a ridiculous screen. Its taller not larger. Even being bigger looks much smaller. Feels horrible in the hand. Treasure your note 3.

[@diamondblaze456everything7]

Better than iPhone

[@benjamincoakley9871]

I'm only in highschool, and all my brothers and I had one of these. Feels weird man

[@hellraiser2969]

thank you very much for your revieuw video, im from the netherlands and after seying this video, i instand ordered myself one, on the internet, for short, your video made me buy one....., thanks and bye

[@SirLoinDeRes]

My dad had many Palms back then and thanks to that now I love Galaxy Note phones

[@PopeCromwell]

They should have made this into a smartphone. Palms had the potential to beat iPhones.

[@723lion]

they had the chance but lag of management support, them old fucks doesnt listen when their seats are warm and comfy. and then at the end they realized they are phasing out, palm gathered whatever left to bring it into mobile, of course it was wayyyy too late. very similar to kodaq. all caused by the old fucks management.

[@ToGuyFor]

The Palm Pre was a moderately successful phone. What it came down to, was Android and IOS dominated and Palm's WebOS was abandoned. HP also used WebOS, on their tablets, which undersold. Amazon Kindle uses a modified version of Android. Recently Blackberry caved to Android, to much delight.

[@feistyfinn9365]

iPhone X basically ripped off the all the Palm Pre gestures...

[@someguy2135]

I would have liked to see that. The iPhone caught everyone's attention because of the larger screen. The TX with phone capability would have the edge of a large established user base, and more software than the original iPhone.

[@Group51]

lasest2 guess you haven’t heard of the Newton.

[@JuanGonzalez-pu8gm]

Esa cosa era lo mejor en sus tiempos

[@CordDaForceRAPSTAR]

ohhh the nostalgia :) ... my mom had one of these things n would let me use it sometimes but I forgot what I used it for.... she had this Palm TX for business purposes

[@RMPANDA964]

I thought at first I accidentally selected 2x on the KZbin speed until I realized this is “normal” speed lol

[@PrivateSi]

There was a SNES emulator for the Palms with XSCale CPUs that run pretty well.

[@yeety1208]

Which emulator is it? I tried using the SNES module in LJP and it doesn't work for me

[@PrivateSi]

@@yeety1208 .. That's for me not to be able to remember and you to find out!.. It was a standalone emulator for Palm OS. It ran SF2, Mario (Kart).. Controls were not great and it wouldn't allow you to flip it 90' to have the cursor pad on the side.

[@slerk9]

I remember having one of these during middle school and it was way overkill for the music and web browsing needs I had at the time

[@bigboydrz]

I was so deep into cydia and jailbreaking in middle school that my ipod touch was booting up to a hacker's suite every day having the music collection in the pocket was always my first goal though

[@StarDarkAshes]

I had one. Used it a lot.

[@jts68kppcclassicmacworld99]

This is still a powerful do anything you want device movies/tv shows, MP3's, emu's, i love the two i got!!

[@aayushgoyal1116]

looks impressive u wouldn't expect a comment on this this in 2020 but indeed its nice

[@ulpilotrmh]

Need to slow down delivery a bit.

[@Rio-fl2yp]

Slow down. Your spitting out 1000 words per minute dude. Nice review though. Im here because I found one of these at the Savers store.

[@WBCStudio.]

Back then KZbin only allocated people about 15 minutes per video.

[@moofymoo]

7:05 - "This page is too large to be displayed." Every modern browser should have such limit, 2.39MB should be enough, if you need more data than original doom to display single page, then your webpage is doing something very wrong.

[@miltonrivera914]

Great job. Do you know how I can hot sync my T/X ? The desk top that had the program died and so did the hard drive. I still use my palm, I am hardcore!

[@froidesprit]

Milton Rivera They did, with its sister product, treo.

[@miltonrivera914]

Thanks but not sure what this means. How do I sync my T/X with my new laptop and Windows 10? Thanks, mjr

[@jonvincent5158]

You need to get Palm Desktop. Once you get Palm Desktop (which includes the HotSync software, it's the only product that does), plug in your T|X to your PC (preferably a Windows XP machine, Palm Desktop has some Win7 compatibility problems) and begin to hotsync. Of course, you should reboot your PC prior to your first hotsync. Here's a link I found to a newer version of Palm Desktop, hope it works: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/71661802/PalmDesktopWin62.exe

[@jayw654]

Checkout www.palmdr.com/windows-7-64-bit-usb-drivers as they created a 64-bit driver for 7, 8 and 10. However you will need the Palm Desktop 6.2 of higher for it to function with this driver.

[@lizdouglas1952]

This video is 8 years old. I had a Palm bk in 2005 & loved it. I just purchased one, but I can't get wifi or Bluetooth. Please help! It won't pair with my Samsung Galaxy phone S23 Ultra. I did receive a cd, but laptops don't include cd. Can you help?😢

[@benjimenez7702]

I loaded a bunch of addresses in my palm pilot - and then I changed the batteries - it was quick, open the cover, take the old ones out and then put the new ones in. And so all of the address information erased. Can I get that back? What happened when I changed the batteries, do you have any idea?

[@someguy2135]

Just in case, you should back up before changing batteries. Hot sync.

[@guillermoblanco3659]

Can you recover deleted videos from this cell phone?

[@nerdexe3880]

I love my palm IIIxe.

[@drac124]

Interface is so much better than Android.

[@911Salvage]

I have the direct predecessor to this one, the PalmOne Tungsten T5. Too bad the battery is dead and I'm too lazy to replace it.

[@yeety1208]

The T5 has a faster processor lol

[@bishopscore]

Reduce this guy's speed to 0.75. Thank me later.

[@lawasalter]

How do you connect it today to a wifii? it says that its security is wpa-psk but my wifi is wpa-2, how do i connect?

[@yeety1208]

There was a WPA Enterprise update released only for the Palm TX, but it also allows you to connect to WPA2 networks

[@Jupitertx79]

how do u connect it to the portable keyboard

[@fuckTorsss]

Drivers for keyboard.

[@machkover]

by bleutooth

[@someguy2135]

Not by bluetooth. The Palm brand external keyboard used the infrared interface. There was a wand that pivoted into position that made it work. I have one. It works fine. The keyboard folds down nice and small for portability.

[@drac124]

@@someguy2135 I have 1 too. But there is also Bluetooth version. I wish I could use it on the phone (my phone does have infrared) but only sender not receiver. Its a useless beautiful well done piece of art.

[@someguy2135]

@@drac124 Interesting. Did Palm make it? If not, who did? Was it full sized? My infrared is not full sized, but I can touch type with it.

[@alperbasa8277]

efsane tablettır bır derı kokusu vardı her kullanmada zevk verırdı bunun emsalı yuksek teknolojı donemınde yoktu kb bazında programlarla cogu ısı yapıyordum kumanda ozellıgı vardı vs vs ahh ahh

[@mohammedrehan3725]

I have this one now...but not using since many years.. Its droid age 😐😐

[@Yoursoul101]

Man I remember this. There were some cool hacks for it too like microphone and vibrating which could be installed. The only downside was there was this one guy names Dmitry who was a douchebag and didn't like helping people and boasted what he could do on his. Fuck I hated that dude

[@cattoc1nno69]

I had memories with palm I remember me and my sister fights to use the palm but It got robbed 2013 to 2015

[@horchatamilker]

Mine won't turn on help

[@yeety1208]

*charge it*

[@KandiKlover]

The Palm T5 has a faster processor.

[@yeety1208]

So does the LifeDrive

[@jagareksa.bahureksa]

Oo iya tahu Tempe, iya abon, iya bukan Terus...

[@jagareksa.bahureksa]

Yg butuh atas siapa..?!

[@jagareksa.bahureksa]

Telpon tinggal ke wartel ditanya bukan tutup emang ngantri bukan tutupnya wartel..

[@jagareksa.bahureksa]

Mau ngetik tinggal rental Komputer

[@jagareksa.bahureksa]

Ini juga ada atasnya antithesisnya warung tegal. Misalnya makan sama apa tunjuk bukan tutupnya 55

[@kasmanto7066]

Susah sekali nyari charger nya,, very difficult

[@kangkimin886]

Dulu gadget ini harga nya berapa kang?

[@kasmanto7066]

@@kangkimin886 dulu saya dikasih orang,, bekas bule

[@GGori_99]

They said iPhone re-invented the phone ???? NO... its just simply made a better user interface..

[@bearsfan2223]

Hey, How's it going everyone!? If anybody has some feedback on the Palm Tx that is up to date please let me know! I'm not looking for this device to perform anything crazy, I just want something other than my phone that I can use for my schedule. I want to record my workout information such as the weight I'm lifting and the amount of reps/sets I complete as well as my calories for the day. I want to use this basically as a daily organizer so I can write down homework assignments, dates, and memos basically. Does anybody think this will work well? I do have a smartphone so I don't need to have internet and mp3 I just want something reliable. Does anybody think the Palm Tx is worth the buy on Amazon for $75.98?

[@teyhota]

bearsfan2223 Maybe, but you should check your local Goodwill store/thrift shop ever so often, you might find a good deal. I got mine for only $10. Granted it didn't come with the charger or any accessories

[@jagareksa.bahureksa]

Iya ini tutupnya..!!!!!!!!!!

[@jagareksa.bahureksa]

Mau internetan ke warnet and do on

[@723lion]

palm killed themselves

[@drac124]

Yes. First changed the name from Palm to Palm One. Than sold Palm OS and said would use webos then bought palm os again. Was a ridiculous serie of bad decisions. The Treo line, the one that comes with phone was nice and I almost bought that, but they already made so many stupid decisions that I gave up. It could still exist today, but like Blackberry they would die anyway.

[@tascavestory]

do you still have it we want the bios palm60-en-t3.rom

[@illfaptothis333]

I wanted one as a kid but then iphone happened