PalmOne Zire 71 Handheld by Palm
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Digital camera reviews of PalmOne Zire 71 Handheld
Digital camera Review: Palm has a dirty secret...
Summary: 1 Stars
This was my first venture into the PDA world and I am sorely dissapointed. For starters the unit is rather large in terms of thickness and adding a protective case only makes it worse. Also the built in software is almost useless, necessitating 50-100 dollars worth of software purchases just to get this thing to do what you want. And lastly, the dirty little secret is that all your data, programs, everything is lost when the battery dies and doing a hotsync will not restore your programs you have to reinstall them from scratch. There is no backup battery!!! I must have lost my data five times before giving up on this piece of trash. Even when the PDA would warn me about power consumption I would turn the unit off and plug it in the next day only to have my data whiped again. I am very surprised that there are no class action lawsuits over this, as I would never have purchased the unit had I known of this flaw.
After having this unit for a month I went out and bought a Dell PDA and have never looked back since. Unlike the Zire it does have a backup battery, so my data is safe for extended periods. I will never buy another palm product again.
Digital camera Review: Good handheld.... poor design
Summary: 4 Stars
The design flaw on this handheld could be the cause of the Zire 72. The Zire 71 has a little joystick to navigate. The issues is that when it is in the slim carrying case and in my purse, the joystick gets pushed and the handheld comes on and stays on. This has run my batter down so many times. When the battery is totally dead, you have to reboot which is kind of a pain and you have to reset some options. My advice is to HotSync often to save valuable information.
Other than this flaw, I have loved my Zire 71. I have almost had it for a year. I have purchased the dictionary/thesarus card and a memory card so that I can listen to MP3s.
Digital camera Review: Horrible unsupported product
Summary: 1 Stars
I had the same experience as many with the screen intermittently freezing up just after 1 year. I never used it ruggedly and it was protected in a hard case the whole time.
If the product didn't have mechanical problems it would be ok but these seem to be quite frequent on this model and from what I've heard on many of the other Palm brand models as well.
Digital camera Review: Zire 71 is Junk
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought my Zire 71 back in march and the thing is junk. It's a good palm if you only have it in the sync cradle on your desk. They have no belt clips and with in the first 2 weeks the palm froze and I lost all info. It still does this periodically and the screen does not respond just the buttons. After a few weeks of jumping from program to program and freezing it will work well for another month and then do the same. I will not buy another palm. PalmOne service is not good and takes forever to send and receive for repairs. I plan to only have this expensive ball and chain for a year. All the accessories are expensive but made cheap. I paid 25 bucks for a leather belt case from Palm for the Zire and the rivets holding the loop ripped within a month. As I speak the digitizer is jumping all over the screen and I can't even hit the dot with the stylus to tap the target! I got ripped off!!Digital camera Review: Makes a nice paperweight.
Summary: 1 Stars
I've had this product for less than a year, and have babied it carefully. I purchased a nice "rhino skin" hard case, and I've never dropped or abused it. At about 6 months old, the screen intermittently freezes up and either won't take input, or the input is goofy - as if the digitizer is waaaaay off. I sent it in to get repaired, but I wonder if they even looked at it. When I got it back, it does exactly the same thing it did before sending it in.
This is the second palm product that has given me close to the same problem. I will never buy Palm again.