Palm Zire™ 71 Handheld

Pros: Bright screen, battery life, bundled software
Cons: Useless volume for MP3 playing, no flash for upgrades

On average, I like this Palm. Unfortunately, the MP3 volume is really bad, even with players that a ...

Pros: Camera, MP3, Colour and Contrast, Price
Cons: The fact that it starts to go Wrong! Cant really Personalise it.

I have been using the Palm Zire 71 for around a year till i smashed the screen a few days ago, but up until then the Zire 71 has been VERY Useful and for a first time user, like I was, it was a very user friendly handheld. Screen The ...

Pros: very useful, reliable, easy to use
Cons: low battery life, price is expensive

The only thing that I didn't like was after the price dropped for the Palm about $100, I picked it up and the Zire 72 came out and was even better as it can record video. The Zire 71 cannot record any video but can take pictures. I can't remember how ...

Pros: camera, color screen, lots of software available.
Cons: reformats itself every couple of months

Unit works great until it decides to reformat itself. I started out with the original Zire. After a couple of months it erased everything I had put into it and went back to the original software, even stuff I had thrown out. Palm fixed it. I sold it to ...

Pros: Great overall machine with multiple functions and portability
Cons: Possible loss of data of not careful

Great machine. I bought one in anticipation of opening my law practice. It has been a huge blessing. Among the great aspects of this product are the picture taking capability, the upload capability of Microsoft type programs and just having the ...

Pros: Camera (fun toy, but that's all it's good for), screen, speed
Cons: PalmOne, power button pooorly placed, poor camera quality, size/ weight

You can read all about the features from other reviewers, as well as from the different retailers. One place you CAN'T read about it is from Palm: they've discontinued it. Interesting, I bought one, called to have it serviced under warranty, & was ...

Pros: Brilliant screen, plays MP3's, digital camera is very handy.
Cons: No included hard case; digitizer accuracy lessens over time; short-ish battery life.

I've had my Zire 71 for about 11 months now and have absolutely NO regrets. I'm a 'old school' Palm user--who started with a Pilot 5000, upgraded to a Palm III, IIIxe, IIIc, m130, and now a Zire 71. The Zire 71 is a solidly-built handheld. I mainly ...

Pros: Gorgeous screen Battery Life Easy Camera Operation
Cons: Poor Camera resolution

I recently bought a Palm for my wife. Stop sniggering, you in the back row... it wasn't a trade! When Palm bought out the Zire 72, I was able to pick up the outgoing Zire 71 for half-price ($150). This was my first major exposure to a Palm machine, ...

Pros: Relatively Inexpensive, High-Resolution (320x320), Mp3 Playback, 144 Mhz, Camera, Os 5
Cons: Durability, Battery Life, Camera Quality, No Zoom, No way to turn off backlight, No Rom

Update 12/10/04 - My Zire 71, after less than a year of use, is falling apart. The IR is completely broken, my headphone jack broke after only moderate use and the joystick is completely broken too. The Joystick is so loose and irritated, that I had to ...

Pros: Great product, for the 15 or so days that it actually worked.
Cons: The worthless Zire 71 is now a paperweight on my daughter's desk.

(1) I bought my 16-year-old daughter a Palm Zire 71 for Christmas. She loved it. (2) Less than a month later, it quit responding to stylus taps. (A common problem, apparently, according to critiques on other web sites.) (3) Called PalmOne ...

Pros: excellent display, Palm OS 4.1.4
Cons: faulty hardware out of box; poor customer service on returns

After spending the best part of a day setting up the Zire 71, I took it outdoors to try the camera. Total bummer. The camera is faulty, fresh out of the box. The image resolution, 96x96 pixels per square inch, should give a decent image of snapshot or ...

Pros: Camera, MP3 playback capability, expansion card slot, hi-res screen, ease-of-use, attractive looks.
Cons: Smallish memory

The Palm Zire 71 doesn't have the largest file capacity out there, and it doesn't have a mini keyboard like the expensive handhelds, but with expansion cards and Graffiti 2 at this price, who cares? This thing is so far beyond a plain planner, it's ...

Pros: Color screen is awesome!! I love having a camera with me!
Cons: Slippery unit...I really hate the Graffiti 2 handwriting system.

Palm did a great job with the Zire 71! I use my Palm--every day, all day long setting counseling appointments with clients, using assessments in Word, playing games and taking photos. The color screen is so easy to read! Battery life is really good--I ...

Pros: The Camera! The music! Rugged enough for me!
Cons: hmmmmmm...

Okay, so I am new to the PDA world and wasn't exactly sure what I was getting into with the whole thing. In fact, I bought the Palm blind (not using this site) relying only on what the salesman at Office Max had to tell me. I'm in the military and fly ...

Pros: Camera. Ease of use. Holds all you are likely to forget.
Cons: My wife has one and I don't.....YET!

My wife was pregnant with our second child on her birthday. As a result, I was somewhat limited on what to get her. I have trouble enough picking our clothes for her, much less maternity clothes. So, I ended up getting the Palm Zire 71 for her. ...