 "GREAT TOOL!" | 2007-10-19 |
| - Reviewed By agp1 |
| I love my Zire72! It is wonderful to have games, books, calendar, address book, music and note pad all in one! The freedom to be able to have all my information in a compact easy to use easy to carry place is well worth every penny. Easy Hotsinc makes it enjoyable to use. |
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| "Great pda for great price and service" | 2007-10-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: AMI33G0V6Q45T |
This is a great product I bought for my sister and she cherish every moment of it.
I do not know what else to say, because the service and the ethicacy of the service is so great that I am speechless.
My sister is using it all the time and I am happy for her and Amazon along with the renew electronics for making it possible.
thank you again
NB |
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| "I love the Zire..." | 2007-03-08 |
| - Reviewed By aegina1028a |
| When my Zire 72 recently suffered a screen malfunction, I started shopping for a newer model -- I thought I'd find an updated Palm with more bells & whistles. To my surprise, none of the new models have the video and camera that the Zire has. I suppose it's Palm's way of pushing you towards buying a Treo -- but I don't like the phone/Palm combo, so I went for another Zire. I have to admit I paid more for this one because it's silver and soooooo pretty -- much nicer than the standard blue I had before -- but I'll just count that as the cost of being a girl. :o) |
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 "Good product but......" | 2007-01-21 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2POGE0NJF7YSY |
| Good Product but i had never understud the software. I sold it and purchase an IPAQ 2700 series with wifi. Windows CE. (another thing).... |
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| "The do almost everything PDA" | 2006-12-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2CG1JQ3P8OXQU |
I've had my Zire 72 for around a year and half and I love it. It does about anything I need in a PDA. I looked at others and found they lack some feature that the Zire 72 has like a built in speaker, camera or voice recorder.
The Good:
- Documents to Go: love this, I have read long docs on the plane when I had nothing else to do (while listening to music on the MP3 player)
- Voice Recorder: missing in many PDAs, Handy when driving and you need to take a note
- Built in speaker: Not great, but beats having to plug in earphones to hear your voice memos or check audio
- MP3 player: I use it for music and audio books
- Video Media player: I work in video production and have demo reel on my palm now. How cool is that!
- Camera: Ok, not great quality, but has been good for documenting things and location scouts
- Great color screen: I had a mono Palm VII before
- SD slot: Great for storing tons of MP3 files
The bad:
- Can't replace battery yourself: The one thing I hate about this little gem. I'll look into self fixes on-line
- No Wi-fi built in: but you can add it with a SD card.
I've added a keyboard and have written scripts and artilces with my Zire.
Scott |
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| "Great expectations" | 2006-11-12 |
| - Reviewed By sspinali |
I enjoy using the Zire 72 and understand compleely why it's such a popular and successful model; at the aame time, I understand why Palm pulled it from their line-up. It has a lot to do wtih user expectations. When you use a PDA, you assume that its individual features will run easily. While the vast majority do, and very well, the Zire 72 loses points in the "bells and whistles" department - just the area where it's touted as being so unique.
1. Although the Zire 72 boasts a digital camera, the grainy image and poor white balance makes a good cell phone's images look considerably more appealing. Do not expect the camera feature to function as you'd hope.
2. Everybody raves, and rightfully, over the wonderful color screen, which is easily bright enough to read and work by. Eyestrain is unlikely. But it comes at a cost - an unuually fast loss of chorge. While you can plan for it by charging often and carrying a cord, it's a danger with longer periods of use.
3. The Media Player is, like the digital camera, useless. It requires the installation of expensive memory chips, and saps fuel at a frightful rate. You're best staying with your iPod instead of using tbe Zire's player.
4. Battery replacement is a challenge. There are online options for learning how to replace the battery, but it's not for beginners, and you stand to break your PDA. Some feel you're safest paying the extra money to have a pro do it for you.
I use and enjoy my Zire 72, and hope you don't take this as an unnecessarily one-sided review. Rather, it's meant as a means to put the PDA into perspective. As long as you know which features you'll be able to use (and which you won't), you'll be able to make a much more intelligent consumer decision. |
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| "Almost 2 years and (almost) no problems" | 2006-10-07 |
| - Reviewed By markcg360 |
Minor problems, but very good so far. Had a Zire71, moved up a little. This one should have a shrine built if it ever dies.
SYNCING, Use Avantgo free service for all news, sports, magazines like CNET, PCWorld, RollingStone, Yahoo, Bloomberg, Seattle PI and much more. Syncs addresses and calendar using Outlook as its main database. Patience can be a bonus; When putting videos on it, it can take up to 15 minutes or more. Music is a bit faster, Real takes care of all that.
CAMERA is very low quality, washed out, poor resolution, poor definition of edges, blurred. Hard to shoot a good one, but sometimes (rarely) it does okay. Expect to do a lot of touch up when you download the pics onto your pc. Videos are washed out, sound quality okay, distorts badly with high volume, like an idling hotrod at 20' sounds like pure static. BUT the camera is very handy if you left your digital camera at home. i.e. car accidents.
VOICENOTES hangs computer when syncing, i don't use VN anymore.
REALPLAYER works great, sound quality is excellent on sony earbuds. Have 150+ songs, 60+ pics and 30+ vids on 1MB SD card w/360MB still free.
MEDIAPLAYER Works great, just drop videos onto the desktop converter and into the palm they go. Longest video i have on it is about 10 minutes.
WIFI would be nice but that's available in a different model. Maybe a card coming.
SOFTWARE is a little disjointed, would like the databases and calendar to tie together better. It could benefit from a lot more automation. Calendar is invaluable, haven't missed a birthday, anniversary or important biz meeting yet. Contacts uses Outlook as its server.
WINDOWS APPS Documents-To-Go makes it completely win compatible.
FREEZES & CRASHES Probably 10x in 2 years, up and running in seconds after a reset. Far fewer problems than my buddy's $500 win handheld. He often must redock to reload all his software and contacts. A huge problem when you're not near your pc, totally cut him off one time, no contact info. See Quirks below.
AGE & BATTERY May be pushing 2 yrs old, battery life is down to about 5 days off the charger.
DURABILITY No glass screen to break like the old V series. Bounced off cement floor from shirtpocket more times than can remember. Screen covers are a must. Keep forgetting to remove from pocket while sandblasting, powerwashing, walking to work on rainy days. Sand once wedged sd card inside, pulled it out with needle nose pliers, surprised it still works. Power washed entire side of building with it in pocket, set it in the sun to dry it out, still works fine. (it dripped when held on end) Often gets rained on when walking to work, set it on pc monitor to dry it. Puppy chewed it once, after repeated freezes, hangs, weird buttons being pressed during setup (when i didn't press them), figured out the front cover teeth marks were pushing hard enough on the touchscreen that the palm thought I was pressing entries.
BLUETOOTH, works as advertised. Setup was a little goofy, but got it done.
QUIRKS Watch out for crumbs, crud and dirt (and teethmarks) between the screen and the front fascia, crud will press on the touchscreen and cause all kinds of weird startup & freeze problems.
I will buy another one when this one dies. |
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 "Extremely poor customer support" | 2006-06-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: AOUY7Q2MV850F |
| I purchased this item last August, it failed 6 months after purchase. It has one year warranty. I returned it to the manufacturer with all the details included the sevice order number on the box. It was later returned to me. I am very disappointed.......extremely..... Now I have a product that doesn't work. |
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| "What CANT this thing do?..." | 2006-02-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1CRQ1MCIGQJZ5 |
ive had the palm zire 72s for almost a year now. there are SO MANY add-ons and programs that you can get for it that i am more and more impressed with it every day. seriously. the more i use it the better it gets.
heres some cool stuff i got my palm to do that nobody else probably told you about:
-ive got a really nice "windows-'98-looking" operating system (not just a skin) that totally made my palm way better looking. very versatile. very nice on the eyes.
-i use adobe reader and documents-to-go for palm to read e-books EVERY DAY. im hooked...
-bluetooth enabled me to send photos, ringtones, and games from my computer to my palm to my phone to everybodys bluetooth phone without paying any stupid charges that my phone company tries to charge me... probably saved like hundreds of dollars already. (no kidding)
-dont forget the zire has infa-red built in to it. are you like me and ever go to the electronics store and in the home theatre section look at all of those nice expensive fancy remotes for like hundreds of dollars? whell, the zire 72 is WAY better than any of those (i own one)- you can buy a program and teach it commands from old remotes, or get them off the internet or database. i always have my remote on me at all times for the entire house. very cool.
-there are also many map and gps programs available in which you can load maps of your city on your palm. i calculate shortest routes and never get lost anymore. it works without gps, but you can get a wireless bluetooth gps receiver for it which makes it even better. must have for the zire 72.
-also, if you have a big enough memory card and enough patience, you can fit full-length, high definition movies on your zire that play smooth, fast, and clear. movies in your car, what more can i say?....
-if youre a student, you can buy a program that turns the zire 72 into a scientific graphing calculator (in HD!!) different skins, unlimited things you can do- i spent a couple hundres bucks on a graphing calculator for school that is half as good.
AND THE LIST GOES ON!!!....
no problems, small light, amazing resolution and color, and all that good stuff...
get this now! there arent enough stars to say how useful the zire 72s is to me. until i break it or lose it one day, i will always have it in my pocket. |
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 "Not worth the money" | 2006-01-22 |
| - Reviewed By e2x2e |
I have a lot of experience with Palm handhelds, and will never buy another one(See below)
First, I'll list the good things about this PDA.
The good things(Pros):
1.)Decent camera
2.)Nice Screen(NOT the best)
3.)Fast processor
4.)Lightweight
5.)Good software on disk
6.)Recessed SD card slot (This IS good. Slots that aren't recessed result in popping out cards.)
7.)Good button placement
8.)High quality voice recording
9.)Bluetooth
The bad things(Cons):
1.)Horrible screen hissing/buzzing
2.)Exposed screen(As with all PDA's that are not clamshell)
3.)Requires resets OFTEN for intense users
4.)Green line across the top of pictures and movies
5.)No MPEG-4 video support
6.)Low mp3 volume
7.)Nonreliable battery gauge
8.)"Palmone" and "Zire 72s" writing on top rubs off easily
9.)No cradle
10.)Charger comes out
11.)Under-used LED indicator light
12.)Rip off
13.)Constant resets
14.)32mb RAM...PATHETIC! Especially for a palm that boasts mp3 playback and video recording.
15.)No wifi
Now, for my story.
I bought the Zire 72 after my bad experience with the Zire 31. It thought it would be better. It was...slightly. Everything was great, for the first few months. The first thing that happened was the screen hissing. I know this is not only a problem with this PDA...it is something to do with the screen cable. So, what happenned was, I bumped it, or dropped it lightly. Nothing serious. Then, I turned it on. And the screen hissed. Annoying. However, if this was the only problem, I would have given it 5 stars. Next, the resets. I installed some apps and games. Nothing extremely complex...Just some games. I started to have to do resets very often. At least once a day. A hard reset at least once a month. Unexceptable. Then came my broken screen. What can I say...I sat on the thing. That is my fault. 100%. Okay. So I called Palm, because I had bought a warranty from Staples. They told me to call Staples. Well, they didn't just tell me. First, they made me wait a long time. Then, they transferred me a bunch of times. Then, I got on the phone with someone. They asked me for my name, date of purchase, and other information. Then, they told my that I had to call Staples. Horrible customer support. So, those are all the problems I had with my Zire 72.
Now, I'll tell you why it is a ripoff. First of all, there is no Wifi. For $300, can't they throw that in!? Next, there is a 320x320 screen...grafiti input area is a WASTE of screen real estate. Lastly, they act like they gave it to you for free. They hate to talk to people on the phone, they give you some pathetic 90 day warranty...That's the leisure period for the product...thing go wrong after about five to six months.
Just telling you my experience with this particular product.
Now, Ill tell you why not to buy fom Palm.
1.)Their stuff is cheap
2.)Don't care about the customers
3.)Poor software
4.)Breakable hardware
5.)All the reasons in the previous two paragraphs
So...My advice to you...Buy from Sony, HP, Dell, Compaq...Not Palm.
However, If you still want to buy from Palm, don't buy expensive things...I would recommend the Tungsten TX...it's got a big screen and Wifi. A camera is not really necessary.
Questions??
E2x2E.E2x2E[@]gmail[.]com |
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