Zire PDA & Handheld Computers

This is the first PDA I ever have. Before I chose it, I checked everywhere for reviews on this zire 31, I did find a lot of negative words against it. However, I did not find any of them so obvious on the one I am using. One is the battery life, Palmone said it's one week for normal standby use, and 4-6 hours for game, mp3, and movies. But a lot of reviews said it drain too fast and terrible. My case is close to 6 days normal use, usually standby, (besides, installed some software with usb plugged in, and tested games and movies for short time without usb plugged in). After my SD card arrived, I played music a lot. though I did not test the whole time before the battery drain, I did notice that 38 remained after three hours of mp3 playing. Another one is the functions, some reviewers complained it malfunctioned a lot, and the replacement always kept the same problem like the battery meter would show you only 75 after one night charging, and you need to hard/soft reset often, etc, however... (See all reviews)

I've owned my zire 72 for about a month now and I absolutely love it. I use it for everything. School, Work, and entertainment. All built in software(calender, memos, contacts, etc.) are very easy to use and very well organized. Lots of options for the displays and sound. Software and accessories are easly found, and are of good qaulity. You definently get a great bang for your buck. My only dislikes are the paint seems very fragile(it has chipped on most corners), camera isn't of best quality(very light sensitive, but who buys a PDA for just the camera, it works pretty nice for still well lite candid type shots), and it tends to freeze up more than I would have liked to have seen(but you just press the reset button on back and everythings fine.) However despite these few negatives, the positive easily out weigh, great PDA, well worth the money. (See all reviews)

Palm has become the least consumer friendly co. in the world. Service is bavailable only via a long distance toll call. You get a call centrer (India) manned by untrained individualsthat know virtually nothing about the products. I was told that this is a Known Defect but - since bit is within normal paramaters - no repair was necessary. The Co. has no interest in fixing problems. I will never buy from them again. (See all reviews)