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sylvar ([personal profile] sylvar) wrote2005-08-08 10:42 am

How to connect a Palm Tungsten C or Tungsten W to normal headphones

It took me a very long time to find this product, but I'm so glad I did.

If you have a Palm Tungsten C or Palm Tungsten W PDA and you want to connect it to normal stereo headphones, your car stereo, or something else with a headphone jack, what you need is this ten-dollar adapter. Yeah, the price seems a little high, but when you have this, you can connect your favorite standard headphones to your PDA and use it to listen to MP3s or streaming radio via wi-fi.

Me, I'm gonna use it to listen to podcasts on my commute. (Through my car stereo -- not earphones. That's just dangerous.)

[identity profile] papertygre.livejournal.com 2005-08-08 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, I posted about this once, but I don't understand why it's dangerous to drive with headphones but not with a car stereo. Do you know why?

Also, I just ordered one of those adapters for my Treo yesterday ^_^

[identity profile] sylvar.livejournal.com 2005-08-09 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
My Fontopia headphones reduce ambient noise I need to hear while driving. Good to see you back. We have friends in Seattle if you want a local guide.

[identity profile] sylvar.livejournal.com 2005-08-09 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
There's also truth in what you ask -- listening to a book on tape can be dangerous if you use verbal-input bits of your brain for visual processing. I can listen while driving, but I can't speak while visualizing a solution to a problem.