The company reports it has sold nearly 2 million of the E model in the last 17 months and will be looking to maintain this level of sales with the improvements.

With an estimated street price of US$249, the Tungsten E2 now has a brighter 320x320 colour display that imporves viewing for digital content such as photos and video. Flash on-board is now up to 32MB, 26MB of which is available for storage.

An integrated MP3 player and built-in speaker or stereo headphone capabilities can be boosted with additional memory via an SD Card.

On the software side, the Tungsten E2 comes with DataViz's Documents To for access to Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The device is also capable of displaying Adobe PDF files with a simple conversion step.

Based on the 200MHz Intel XScale processor, the device also accepts MultiMediaCard and SDIO cards.

"This sleek, stylish device is the perfect handheld to take into the boardroom or the classroom," said Ken Wirt, senior vice president of worldwide marketing for palmOne. "With the versatile Tungsten E2, customers get more of what they want -- Bluetooth, and a brighter, richer colour screen that brings calendar, contacts, documents, photos and videos to life. Plus, flash memory to keep important information safe, even when you forget to charge the device."

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