Palm IIIxe
Manufacturer	Palm, Inc.
Type	Personal digital assistant
Connectivity	DE9 serial port, infrared port
Media	8 MB RAM
Operating System	Palm OS 3.5
Input	touchscreen
Camera	None
Power	2 x AAA batteries
CPU	16 Mhz Motorola 68328EZ Dragonball
Display	160 x 160 px, monochrome, super-twisted nematic LCD

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Product data

Manufacturer's part number: 3C80304U

Dimensions

• Width: 8.1 cm = 3.188976378 in
• Depth: 1.8 cm (0.7086614173 in)
• Height: 12 cm (4.724409449 in)
• Weight: 170 g (0.3747858457 lbs)

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Operating system requirements

Note: these requirements are For the Palm Desktop PIM software that originally shipped with the Palm IIIxe. For a more up to date version of the software please see the Palm IIIxe support homepage found in the external links section at the end of this article. Palm Desktop is the computer program for Microsoft Windows or Macintosh OS, a personal information manager which can be used alone or in combination with the Palm OS personal digital assistant. ... PIM is an acronym for: Platform-independent model Personal information manager Protocol Independent Multicast processor-in-memory Penalty minutes (hockey) Parallel inference machine This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Look up home page in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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Screen type

About the Palm IIIxe

A Palm IIIxe unit with Accessories.

Palm IIIxe Hotsync Cradle.

The Palm IIIxe was introduced into the marketplace in The month of February of the year 2000 & was one of the two last remaining units (models) in the III series line of Palms' Personal Digital Assistants of which the other was the Palm IIIc unit which featured a color display and a rechargeable battery - for more info. about the IIIxes' sibling the IIIc please see the relevant Palm IIIc wikipedia article. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Palm IIIxe PDA Personal digital assistants (PDAs or palmtops) are handheld devices that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years. ... The Palm IIIc was the first color palm handheld ever. ... The Palm IIIc was the first color palm handheld ever. ...

The Palm IIIxe itself came/comes in a black colored Machine Casing with a infrared port at top which lets one beam (Electromagnetic radiation) a memo, address, etc.. entry to another using a Palm handheld, & if used with the right software can be used as a universal remote control. Image of two girls in mid-infrared (thermal) light (false-color) Infrared (IR) radiation is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than that of visible light, but shorter than that of radio waves. ... Electromagnetic waves can be imagined as a self-propagating transverse oscillating wave of electric and magnetic fields. ... A universal remote is a remote control that can be programmed to operate various brands of one or more types of consumer electronics devices. ...

At the bottom is a serial port for hotsynching to the User's Desktop computer by way of an cradle that sits on top of the computer desk. The Units serial port also can support many add-on additions such as the PalmPix camera & The Stowaway foldable & Gotype keyboards and many more add-one are available that work through this serial port. A male DE-9 connector used for a serial port on a PC style computer. ... Desktop computer with several common peripherals (Monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, microphone and a printer) A desktop computer is a personal computer made for use on a desk in an office or home and is distinguished from portable computers such as laptops or PDAs. ... A male DE-9 connector used for a serial port on a PC style computer. ... A male DE-9 connector used for a serial port on a PC style computer. ...

There is a small portion of the screen that is taken up by a small greenish like rectangle just below the display area that is used as the input system and to also go home (the house icon which takes you to the list of installed applications on the users IIIxe). Initiate a menu (under the house icon which brings up a menu if any in the currently opened application), Right side: Initiate the built in calculator (plus, divided, minus & equal sign) and underneath that is the find button to initiate a find to find a memo, todo, date book entry or address book entry which is represented by a looking glass icon. This area is known as the graffiti pad (specialized characters that a user has to learn ie: the computers handwriting that it can recognize) where one writes letters on the left side and on the right side numbers, the area is divided up by two legless arrows one at top and the other at the bottom. The ABC at bottom left and this is the area you write the letters if pressed with the stylus will bring up the inbuilt software keyboard in alphabet mode and the 123 at bottom right at which this is the area you write the numbers & will bring the inbuilt software keyboared again but this time up in numerical mode.

Buttons starting from left to right are the Power (Electric power) button, and if held for about 2seconds turns on the Backlight for viewing in lowlight or dark areas, then we see the Date book (Appointment scheduling software) button, Address book button, up&down scroll buttons, To Do list & Memo pad button. All the buttons except for the scroll buttons can be used to turn on the unit. For delivered electrical power, see Electrical power industry. ... Look up second in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Backlights are lights that are attached to LCD displays so that they can be seen at night. ... Appointment scheduling software allows businesses and professionals to manage appointment scheduling. ... An address book or a name and address book (NAB) is a book or a collection of data storing contact details (for example: address, telephone number, e-mail address, fax number, mobile phone number). ... In linguistics, an auxiliary verb is a verb whose function it is to give further semantic information about the main verb which follows it. ... A spiral-bound notebook A notebook (also notepad, writing pad, etc. ...

This particular unit also features a 16 Mhz Motorola 68328EZ Dragonball CPU, and is powered by 2 AAA batteries which can last up to a month or two depending on use, and features the same enhanced 4-bit 160x160 pixel Grayscale Super-twisted nematic display area as the Palm IIIe and Palm IIIx. The Operating System the unit shipped/ships with was/is Palm OS 3.5 (which will allow the use of up to 4-bits of Grayscale color), but could later be upgraded with a Patch_(computing) to Palm OS 3.5.2 which fixed a memory leak on Palm handhelds running version 3.5 of the Palm Operating System, after that Palm on June 19, 2001 released another patch versioned 3.5.3 which fixes a flow control problem and a dynamic UI pointer issue of which also fixed some incompatibilities between 3rd party applications. Later on near the end of 2001 in November Palm this time introduced an upgraded Operating System that fixed some more bugs and added some new improvements and enhancements and which Palm versioned the Operating System as version 4.1 of which you had to buy on a CD-ROM. The disc is now discontinued and is uncommon to find in the mainstream marketplace. The unit itself has 8MB of RAM and 2MB of internal flash memory for Operating System upgrades & is discontinued. A megahertz (MHz) is one million (106) hertz, a measure of frequency. ... Motorola DragonBall EZ Microprocessor FreeScale DragonBall MX-1 Microprocessor (BGA Package) Motorola/Freescale Semiconductors DragonBall, or MC68328, is a microcontroller design based on the famous 68000 core, but implemented as an all-in-one low-power solution for handheld computer use. ... CPU can stand for: in computing: Central processing unit in journalism: Commonwealth Press Union in law enforcement: Crime prevention unit in software: Critical patch update, a type of software patch distributed by Oracle Corporation in Macleans College is often known as Ash Lim. ... AAA Batteries An AAA battery (pronounced triple A) is 44. ... This example shows an image with a portion greatly enlarged, in which the individual pixels are rendered as little squares and can easily be seen. ... In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Palm IIIe is a PDA from Palm Computing released in 1999 briefly after the more expensive and more advanced Palm IIIx. ... The Palm IIIx was released in 1999 just breifly before the scaled down Palm IIIe was introduced into the marketplace. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Palm OS is a compact operating system developed and licensed by PalmSource, Inc. ... In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. ... In computing, a patch is a small piece of software designed to update or fix problems with a computer program. ... Palm OS is a compact operating system developed and licensed by PalmSource, Inc. ... In computer science, a memory leak is a particular kind of unintentional memory consumption by a computer program where the program fails to release memory when no longer needed. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ... Common species and uncommon species are designations used in ecology to describe the population status of a species. ... Random access memory (usually known by its acronym, RAM) is a type of data storage used in computers. ... Flash memory is a form of EEPROM that allows multiple memory locations to be erased or written in one programming operation. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...

A peculiar note about this particular unit was/is that the top battery inserts backwards, as the plus sign on the battery needs to be pointing toward the units battery compartments spring, however the bottom battery inserts the usual way with the plus on the battery pointing away from the spring in the battery compartment.

A technical note on this unit and many other 8MB Palm units manufactured at around the same time frame is that the first manufactured units specifically the Palm IIIc, IIIxe, and Vx manufactured between October 1999 through May 2000 had a DRAM defect that could wipe out any data at any time by way of a fatal alert or error. For more infomation and a patch to fix this problem & a test to see if yours in affected please use this link: http://www.palm.com/us/support/dram/

Also the IIIxe specific unit is known at times to display a common flashing Palm logo screen on a reset of the unit where the only way to recover is to do a hard reset and restore from a Palm Desktop backup from the users local, work or networked Desktop machines where the units last and most recent contents were backed up. Currently there is no known fix for this except to try and exchange the unit where you bought it with another one hoping the new unit that you have received does not have this known defect or problem. Palm Desktop is the computer program for Microsoft Windows or Macintosh OS, a personal information manager which can be used alone or in combination with the Palm OS personal digital assistant. ...

References

External links

• Palm's official website