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T5 Fury

When PalmOne announced their upcoming and much anticipated T5 , it wasn't news. What was news was the furious reaction toward it by elite and power users. At last count, there were 500+ comments at PalmInfocenter , most of them negative. What could engender such passion? Complaints weren't solely about specifications; barbs were also directed at marketing and price. The recurring themes include: no Cobalt no Wifi no metal shell at $399 too expensive not worthy of the Tungsten T flagship moniker While the merits of these complaints are debatable, the disappointment in the Palm community is real. And the good points to the T5 don't seem to assuage their hurt: tablet design large memory store (256MB) flash memory retains data even when batteries run down accessible as a usb drive The target audience for this device appears to be data-centric people: corporate users who have lots of Word and Excel documents, and healthcare professiona