<A HREF="http://www.palm.com">Palm</A> today introduced the Palm Zire 21, the Tungsten E, and the Tungsten T3. We've had each of these devices in-house for a while and will have a more comprehensive report in our 10/7 issue of Computing Unplugged. Here's the scoop on each of the devices:

The Zire 21 has four times the storage capacity of the original Zire handheld with 7.2MB of user available memory, a new 126MHz Texas Instruments OMAP processor and Palm OS 5.2.1. The Zire 21 is still $99 and is still green and black.

The Tungsten T3 handheld is Palm's first device that supports a high-resolution color screen in landscape, as well as the typical portrait mode. The handheld offers greater input flexibility, streamlined access to key features and optimal viewing in either mode. The screen display is 50 percent larger than on any previous Palm branded device, and the new soft input screen area provides a virtual Graffiti 2 writing area. With faster Bluetooth setup embedded in the handheld, a wireless communications suite, fast XScale processor, 64MB of RAM (52MB user available), and superior office and multimedia capabilities, the Tungsten T3 handheld offers what the company calls "exceptional" performance in a compact design for an estimated U.S. street price of $399. We've been tinkering heavily with this device and have to say it's pretty darned incredible, with a screen that we have to honestly say is simply gorgeous.

The Tungsten E handheld has 32MB of RAM (28.3MB user available), a crisp high-resolution color display, updated core applications, multimedia software and expandability through cards or add-on accessories. It retains the classic Tungsten appearance, with its compact, sleek modern form and improved 5-way navigator for one-handed navigation. This handheld gives professionals an upscale handheld with premium features for an estimated U.S. street price of $199. Amazingly, it's also got the hot display and it's pretty inexpensive.

None of these devices will rock your world, but they're all very impressive and priced substantially less than we'd expected. We congratulate Palm on a very solid product introduction.