Palm Zire™ 71 Handheld

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: Camera, color, size and speed.
Cons: Some rough edges in fit and finish, makes a clicking noise, and Graffiti 2.

The Palm Zire 71 is a very cool gadget. It has a build-in camera that takes digital pictures up to ...

Pros: It works. Great physical design, awesome screen, camera
Cons: None

I have used a Palm III in the past and spent the last 2 years using a Visor. I loved the devices bu ...

Pros: Fast processor, incredibly bright/sharp screen, built-in camera very convenient, excellent sound
Cons: Smooth exterior can get slippery, low camera quality, buttons are too smooth for stylus

Display is very bright compared to a few other current Palm/Sony PDA models. Built in camera is very handy (and provided hours of amusement for my collegues), and easily syncs to your computer for emailing (e.g. "Look what I saw at the mall!!"). Photo qua ...

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. ...

Pros: Sleek Design, Navigation stick, Camera
Cons: Original packaging,included memory

I had relied on little yellow sticky notes, torn off pieces of paper, or my memory to keep my professional and personal life in balance for many years. Then a few years ago, I allowed the technology of the Palm M100 to aid me in my quest for perfection ...

Pros: Camera, Video, and Battery-life.
Cons: Graffiti 2. Not enough memory at time of purchase.

I have now had my Palm Zire 71 for about two weeks, I previously owned a Visor. While the Visor sti ...

Pros: Digital camera, beautiful color screen, mp3 player
Cons: cheap stylus

August 2003; my computer got the Welchia virus. In the process of fixing that, my beloved and oh so sacred Palm m505 took a nose-dive off of my desk chair. Aluminum casing? A short drop of 2 feet? Not a problem? NO! With my horrible luck of that ...

Pros: nice graphic display, mp3 capability, and very tiny
Cons: not the best digital camera out there

Sitting on a sidewalk cafe, fondling your fingers over your baby, one person comments "That's so nic ...

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: 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: Powerful, stylish unit with MP3 and Digicam ability.
Cons: Slippery ergonomics, case prevents use while stored.

Business Execs need not apply... This is NOT your PDA. This is for the average Joe who wants some fun AND serious power in his PDA. The Zire 71 is it, since the standard Zire is little more than those clamshell pocket organizers from yesteryear ...

Pros: Great PDA for the price.
Cons: Don't like the fact that it has a non removable permanent battery.

I upgraded from an M125 that I only had about 9 months. Had some reservation about purchasing so so ...

Pros: Affordable, great for students, nice touch with the camera, small and light
Cons: Don't have Bluetooth, camera resolution not really that good

After a long absence since the Tungsten-T and Tungsten-W, Palm just recently launched two new models, the entry level Zire71 and the higher end Tungsten-C to the ever competitive PDA market. Focused here in this short review would be the Zire71 which I ...

Pros: Screen, MP3, Video, Camera, Graffiti 2
Cons: WiFi not available (yet). Built-in speaker is pretty bad. Memory card required for mp3/movie playback.

I had a Handspring for years, and I barely used it. I liked being able to keep all my records in on ...