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Tungsten, a lustrous grayish white metal, is commonly used in light- bulb filaments. Whether beleaguered hand-held pioneer Palm can brighten its prospects by co-opting the name for its new line of devices is another matter.
The Palm platform still makes up 50 percent of the handheld market. But Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system is gobbling up market share as the devices that run it fall in price. Palm's challenge is to give its vast, loyal customer base a reason to upgrade from 1999's Palm V, the first electronic organizer to stick the functions of the little black book into a lightweight machine with sleek curves.
The Tungsten T, unveiled last week, is essentially a Palm V on steroids: it sports an upgraded operating system, 16MB of memory instead of 8, a high-resolution color screen and a muscular processor that speedily renders graphics and ...