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Return of the Tungsten C

My Tunsten C has finally returned. Well, I should say, a brand new (reconditioned?) Tungsten C has arrived. I received the e-mail last week (7/3/03) that they had shipped the unit, and I knew that they must have sent a different unit (given the turn-around time). Unfortunately, due to the July 4th holiday, Airborne didn't pick up the unit till yesterday (7/7/2003--Bummer). I tried to track the pakcage over the weekend, but nothing showed up on the Airborne website. I am not sure whose fault is it that it wasn't actually shipped on 7/3 as stated in the e-mail, but I don't care any more.

I have just installed the ROM update (believe or not, the Tungsten still came loaded with the older ROM), and it worked fine. Now everything is back to normal. Anyway, Palm included a new stylus and a flip cover. So, now I have a spare stylus and a flip cover (equivalent to $12.06 I paid for shipping, I wonder). I guess that's a consolation for not having my Palm for 8 days (might have been shorter if there was no holiday).

The only downside to this was the Palm's service status check web page. I had a terrible time accessing information in the page for the past several days, and I only wish they improve on that. All in all, not bad.