I tested this device (which is not available yet) during a week of caving in France in August 2010 and I was much impressed with it. The device fits well in the hand, feels robust and features an outstanding screen. In dark background mode, cave maps look terrific, thanks to ultra bright colors and a true deep black. Combined with extended battery life, a fast CPU and plenty of memory, this is a fine new Palm OS PDA for running Auriga!
| OS | Palm OS 5.4 (Garnet) - English only - upgradable by copying the new firmware onto the SD card and rebooting |
| Screen | Ultra bright 480 × 320 (hi-resolution); 69 mm (2.7") high (Palm TX is 82 mm or 3.23") |
| Input | Graffiti 2; virtual Graffiti area |
| Battery | Rechargeable 2600 mAH Li-ion (3,7V 9,62 Wh; 48×69×7 mm)- battery life following
Laubrass' protocol:
10.25 hours at full brightness 10.87 hours at mid-scale brightness 17.22 hours at low (much adequate) brightness 22.40 hours with backlight off |
| Buttons | From left to right: Power, 5-way navigator and Brightness
In Survey Shot form (Auriga) under Assistant control, the Brightness button creates/saves a shot In Measures form (Auriga), the Brightness button pops up the Auriga Keypad In all other Auriga forms, the Brightness button pops up the built-in brightness dialog |
| CPU | 400 MHz |
| Memory | 64 Mb RAM, 128 Mb NVRAM for security backup |
| Security | An automatic copy or RAM to NVRAM (non volatile) is performed every time the device is powered off;
This copy is restored after RAM has been lost (due to a hard reset or complete battery discharge) |
| Performance | Computation time of Lechuguilla Far West (11 797 survey shots, 1 114 loops), in seconds:
432 on Palm TX 241 on PDA32 185 on Palm E2 88 on Palm T3 |
| Price | $179 - order from Aceeca |
| Options | Infrared $10
Bluetooth $10 Stereo sound $10 802.11b/g (wifi) $10 |
| Dimensions | 128 × 76 × 25 mm (5 × 3 × 1") - fits into a Peli box 1020, an OtterBox 2000 or a waterproof pouch |
| Weight | 196 g (6.9 oz.) |
Page last updated 2010-10-20