Tag archive: Zire

Quote from the review: “Recommended price for this device is below $300, that's why by this parameter Zire 72 blends well with the low end class. But the set of features and technical characteristics of Zire 72 are typical of the middle end or even of the high end! I confess, at first I thought that there must have been a catch somewhere, it's so unusual for a low end PDA to feature a high resolution color display, a… Read More

Quote from the review: “Palm, or rather palmOne as it's now known is the granddaddy of pocket size PDAs and with the new Zire range, palmOne is taking on the low cost colour display models from Sony and Mitac. The Zire 31 is the more basic of the two recently launched Zire models, but it's also far cheaper than the Zire 72. But even a basic PDA today comes with more features than top of the range models did only a year… Read More

Quote from the review at Trusted Reviews: “Driving the Zire 72 is a 312MHz ARM-based processor. Now, this may not be as fast as the 400MHz processors seen in a lot of Pocket PC devices, but PalmOS is nowhere near as process-intensive as Pocket PC. So, while I find myself having to soft-reset my iPAQ several times a day to clear out any process hogging apps that might be hanging around, I didn't once have to resort to such action… Read More

Quote from the review at InfoSync World: “The Zire 71 breaks slightly from the previous Zire design. It's still a tablet-style handheld, but instead of the swooping curves of other Zires it has a more traditional rounded-rectangle design measuring 116 x 75 x 17 mm and weighing 136 grams. The back is silver, including a large speaker/camera area, while the front is silver with a blue trim. The blue trim is a hard rubberized… Read More

From palmOne's press release: Building on the success of the best-selling Zire handhelds, palmOne, Inc. today announced two color Zire handhelds.     — The Zire 72 handheld with a built-in digital camera, audio/video        capture and playback ability(1), and Bluetooth(R) wireless technology        offers affordable multimedia capability at an… Read More

Quote from the review: “With the Zire 71′s amazing built in camera, colour screen, video and audio playback and the entire essential classic organizer functions there is no question that the Palm Zire 71 is one of the best Palm organizers on the market.” Our take: It looks like the Palm Zire 71 really has a lot of features, but the 13MB of internal memory has to be hurting it, especially when you consider that there is a… Read More

“By focusing on what matters most to the mainstream, we delivered the first consumer handheld to break the sub-$100 price point and reached a previously untapped market,” said Todd Bradley, president and chief executive officer, Palm Solutions Group. “And the mainstream responded — first-time handheld purchasers, including students, families and individuals, have embraced the Zire handheld as an affordable way to… Read More

Palm, Inc. today introduced the affordable Zire 71 handheld with a built-in digital camera and Palm's sharpest high-resolution color screen to date. At an estimated U.S. street price of $299, theZire 71 handheld gives people the ability to capture life on-the-go. Media aficionados also will enjoy listening to MP3s,(1) watching video clips and carrying their personal photo albums whereverthey go. The all-new sliding design hides a concealed… Read More