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- Brand: PalmOne
- Released:
2003-04-23 / (1 Item)
- Customer Rating:
3.5 out of 5.0 - (170 Customer Reviews) - Sales Rank: 2731
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- What's in the box: Zire 71 Handheld, Protective Carrying Case, USB HotSync Cradle, Power Adapter, Desktop Software CD-ROM, Software Essentials CD-ROM, Stylus
- Bright, 320x320 transflective TFT color display supports more than 65,000 colors
- Texas Instruments OMAP310 processor (ARM); 144 MHz
- Integrated digital camera with 640x480 resolution, auto exposure, and automatic white balance control
- SD expansion slot
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Review from: Product Description |
Keep phone numbers and addresses on hand. Write to-do lists. Take notes in meetings. The Zire 71 handheld helps you do it all - and keep it all organized. The joystick-like 5-way navigator gives you quick, one-handed access to your information. Want to capture a spontaneous moment? Simply slide your handheld open to expose the protected, hidden camera. Then point, shoot and share with friends and family. Take your favorite MP3s, video clips and audio books with you wherever you go. It is a snap to organize and move files from your handheld to your desktop and back again. A new, high-resolution color screen vibrantly displays images, graphics and type. Rechargeable batteries give you plenty of time to enjoy the action. An ultra-fast ARM processor handles the most demanding media tasks with blazing efficiency. Plus, 16 MB of memory gives you plenty of storage space for digital photos, games and applications.
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Review from: Amazon.com Review |
Palm’s Zire brand is designed primarily for consumers rather than for professionals. The first Zire was a low cost, entry level machine, this one, the second in the range, is a multimedia extravaganza. The most eye catching feature of the Zire 71, after you’ve noticed the sleek rounded blue casing for the hardware, is the built-in digital camera.  | The Zire 71's built-in digital camera |
You need to slide the upper and lower body apart to reveal it, and when you do so the Zire 71’s screen automatically turns into a viewfinder. Click the button that is also revealed during the sliding process, and you can take pictures, at resolutions of 160 x 120, 320 x 240 and 640 x 480. Palm has even produced a new version of Palm Desktop to help you make the most of managing digital images. This includes a nice viewer and some editing tools. Palm Desktop also, incidentally, has a new installer which is more efficient than before when it comes to selecting multiple applications to send to your Palm. The Zire 71 runs version 5 of the Palm operating system, which has improved sound features. Install the provided copy of the Real One player and you can play MP3 music through headphones. Gaming is assisted by a joystick style navigation button that sits beneath the screen. But when you want to use the Zire 71 for more traditional personal information management tasks you can tap the application shortcut buttons to launch Date Book, Address Book or Note Pad. The fourth button takes you to your digital photo library. As usual these buttons can be reallocated to other applications if you like. Only 13MB of to the 16MB of memory on board is actually available for applications and data, but an SD card slot means you can add to this easily. The screen is a superb transreflective TFT type – it is the best we’ve seen on a PDA from Palm. The Universal Connector means existing peripherals like keyboards which support this should work without problems with the Zire 71. The Zire 71 is a great multimedia PDA which finally puts Palm in a position to rival Sony for its Multimedia crown. --Sandra Vogel
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Review from: Amazon.com Product Description |
Early Adopters Pick: April 2003. First handheld under $300 to have a built-in digital camera. The Palm Zire 71 handheld helps you organize your life on the fly. View your appointments and addresses on an outstanding high resolution color screen, or capture pictures with its unique hidden digital camera. Listen to MP3s, watch video clips, and enjoy the Zire 71 handheld's long-lasting rechargeable batteries. Built-in Digital Camera
The Zire 71 handheld features a built-in digital camera with 640x480 (VGA) resolution, auto exposure, and automatic white balance control. To use the camera, just slide the front down to reveal the lens, point and click, and you've captured the images to share with your friends and family. Display
The Palm Zire 71 features a 16-bit, 320x320 bright transflective TFT color display, which supports more than 65,000 colors. Expansion
The Zire 71 uses Multimedia Card and Secure Digital expansion cards, which instantly add software applications, additional memory, large databases, and more without taking up built-in memory space. Operating System
The Zire 71 is powered by Palm OS 5.2.1, which provides higher performance, enhanced multimedia features, support for Bluetooth connectivity and networking, and enterprise-class security. Extra Software
Along with the standard Palm software, you'll receive a Software Essentials CD-ROM containing RealOne Mobile Player for MP3s, Kinoma Player for video, Audible Player for audio books, RealOne Arcade, Palm Reader for eBooks, Solitaire, Adobe Acrobat Reader for Palm OS, powerOne Personal Calculator, Phone Link Updater, Telephony/SMS, VersaMail 2.5, and more. Compatibility
The Palm Zire 71 is compatible with PCs running Windows 98, NT 4.0, 2000, Me, and XP, and with Macs running Mac OS 9, version 9.1 or higher, or Mac X, 10.1.2 or later. What's in the box
- Zire 71 Handheld
- Protective Carrying Case
- USB HotSync Cradle
- Power Adapter
- Stylus
- "Read This First" Document
Palm Desktop 4.1 for Windows, which includes: - Palm Quick Install for easy transfer of Palm OS applications, photos, audio files and more from your computer to your handheld.
- Palm Photos for editing and emailing photos from your desktop
- Palm Desktop 4.0 for Mac
Software Essentials CD-ROM - RealOne Mobile Player
- Kinoma Player & Producer
- AudiblePlayer
- Handmark's Solitaire
- RealOne Arcade
- Palm Reader
- VersaMail
- PowerOne Calculator
- Acrobat Reader
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Poorly Made
(Rating: 1 of 5)
( 2005-05-16 )
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My wife and I each bought a Zire 71 and they both failed after about a year. Makes you think the units are made to be disposible. The problem with my wife's was the battery. After a charging it would drain almost immediately. More than likely caused by the camera or joystick(she tried taping the unit shut so it wouldn't slide open but this didn't help). Mine stopped syncing and the touch screen worked eraticly. We owned other Palms which were simpler, better made and lasted longer. The Zire 71 is a disaster!
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Good for 18 months, then went belly up.
(Rating: 2 of 5)
( 2005-02-20 )
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of 5 people found this comment helpful |
The Zire 71 was a pretty good PDA for the first 18 months of its life. The camera was kind of a "wow" feature when I first got it, but the picture quality is poor. I haven't found much use for the camera, but overall the Zire 71 worked pretty well.
The problem is that the touchscreen has gone haywire. It no longer responds appropriately or predictably to the stylus and the PDA has been rendered useless by this problem. Unfortunately it is not worth the $125 that palm charges for non-warranty repair.
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terrible software and terrible support
(Rating: 3 of 5)
( 2005-01-28 )
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of 1 customer found this comment helpful |
I am quite pleased with the handheld itself and have never had any major issues with it. The desktop softare, however, is downright terrible. I can't switch to a yearly or monthly calendar view without having it crash. I have reinstalled several times to no avail.
I contacted tech support but they never seem to understand the problem, insisting I reinstall their software even though that is what I have already told them I've been doing. I filled out a survey telling them I was unhappy because they hadn't been able to solve my problems and never heard from them again.
If a decent competitor arrives on scene with better software, and better tech support, palm will quickly be a thing of the past.
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FRUSTRATING!!
(Rating: 1 of 5)
( 2005-01-27 )
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of 4 people found this comment helpful |
I loved this when i got it for xmas 2003-- then about a year later, the trouble started.. i had many problems hotsynching with my mac at work, finally worked that out, and then the battery must have been running by being in my purse (the joystick must have been pressed in) and i lost everything on my palm. i had backed up fairly recently and was able to convert alot of my info back on to the unit... then the fun really started! some phantom appeares to be playing with my palm, i will hear click click click and it will be in a loop of toggling beetween functions, or in the calandar it will highlight an event over and over again, and i can not get it to stop. I will turn it off and turn it on, and still the same issue - we did a restart and now it is unusable- the stylus will not respond and it just clicks all over and it is a waste.
I am sad because i really enjoyed the camera function and used it a lot for quick pics to friends and family via email of things that were new in my life.
i will have to find a new pda, and i do not see myself getting another one of these, beware!!!
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