Product Description

HARD CASE F/ TUNGSTEN E NS

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44726 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Palm
• Model: E Hard Case
• Released on: 2003-10-02
• Platform: Windows
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 15.75" h x 67.72" w x 79.92" l, .35 pounds

Features

• System: n. spezifiziert
• Sprache: ML

Manufacturer's Description
A stylish finish combined with a durable plastic interior is the perfect combination to protect and secure your Palm Tungsten E handheld. This case provides a metal exterior, a smooth interior lining, storage for expansion cards, a spring-loaded cover, and a secure attachment mechanism.

Customer Reviews

Decent protection, lousy design
I'm guessing Palm has monkeys working in their case-design department, because this product shows no signs of someone actually putting thought into the process.

Good points: the somewhat thin aluminum protects the scratch-prone Tungsten E, and is a step up from the absolutely useless cover provided with the unit. Looks like a cigar case, so maybe someone will think you're cool.

Bad points: Thin aluminum, so it's not going to stand up to a lot of abuse without buckling, but there's a tradeoff between being bombproof and light. What is inexcusable, however, is the poor ergonomics. The clasp is cantankerous, you need to partially flip the Palm out of the case to access the power button and stylus. Lying flat in the case on your desk, there is no way to insert the power or sync cable without tilting the Palm slightly. Anybody with half a brain would have realized in a blink of the eye that making the clamshell case asymmetric, so that the cut-line fully exposed the cable plug-ins and power switch, would have been dead easy. The case comes with a nifty double-articulating hinge, so why oh why didn't they do this.

Summary: at the moment the only hard case which fits the Tungsten, but it's going to be an expensive paper weight after someone produces a proper case.

This piece really does stink
The Tungsten E is a great little thing. It comes with a wodge of great software and quite capable hardware at a bargain price.

But with that price comes a drawback - no case. The plastic flip-cover Palm supply is barely worth having and so I waited anxiously for months for a hard case to come out, all the while worrying my handheld would get scratched or dropped.

I bought this case and ripped open the box, such was my desire to get rid of the naff supplied cover and get my TE into the shiny new aluminium.

It looks lovely, although my initial impression was also the case is a little slippery. It was when I plugged in my headphones and tried to shut the case I really began to notice the problems.

There is no port for headphones, charger, or cradle in this case. You have to leave the case open to use any plug-in. And if your TE is in the case, you won't be able to get to the stylus without flipping the TE up first. And thats pretty much true if you want to turn it off too.

And its pretty hard to open once closed too. There's a really bad fastening mechanism.

Palm have gone for a streamlined approach on this one. The TE gives value for money - case and decent battery were left out in order to keep the price down. When it came to the case itself they seem to have saved money by employing idiots to design it.

A FRAGILE case....
As stated below, the latching mechanism on this case is its Achilles heel. In all other respects it is excellent. It looks great and is robustly built BUT the closing catch is simply a plactic 'lip' - once it is broken you have no way to close the case (unless you fancy sticky tape! Totally uncool in a business meeting!) I do not even know when I dropped mine - I simply took the case out of my jacket pocket and it flipped open - on trying to close it I realised it was no longer possible. I suggest you spend your hard earned money on a case which will last - mine is now landfill - very 'pretty' landfill - but still landfill!!.