PalmOne Zire 72
The new levy PalmOne Zires got an aartsmoeilijke task with: a yet larger sale success then the Zire 71 and 21, the present instapmodels form. From these test appeared that the new apparatuses everything in house have that vocation where to make. These so-called 'instapappliancelen' proudly on better features then the professional Palms of a year will can ago.
The first that strikes at the Zire 72 is that he it a to pieces 'more normally' looks forward then the Zire 71; he misses the good-looking - only foutgevoelige - schuifmechanism for the hiding of the digital camera and is a to pieces more round become.
The blue color is keep, is the Zire 72 become already through the use of someone else rubber paint source something matter. The small joystick of the Zire 71 takes place must clear away for a large 5-ways D-path beside which the fast tests stand grouped for the PIM-applications two at two.
With 32 MB RAM-memory, of which 24 MB available for data and the super-fast 312-MHz Intel PXA 270-processor, is the Zire 72 just after the Tungsten T3 with lead the fastest PalmOne-pocket computer on the market - not badly for an instapmodel that only 319 Euros expense.
Further the Zire 72 sees to about a 320 x 320 pixels LCD-screen, a SDIO-expansions end, a 1,2-megapixel camera and a built in Bluetooth-receiver. Yet he weighs only 136 grams and is he nearly just as large as its predecessor: 11.6 x 7.5 x 1.7 cm.
The very good screen we know already of the Tungsten C; it is awful edge and contrast realm, and as source within as outside source legible. The color reproductions is source what flatter than by the Tungsten T3, but that is then also not for nothing the topmodel of PalmOne.
Garnet
In the vooronder, the Zire 72 about PalmOS 5.2.8 (code name Garnet), the last iteratie of this operating system sees to became, that the new PIM-positions encompass, that with the Tungsten T3 introduced.
Because the most Palm-owners Microsoft Outlook use as a PIM on their desktop, has PalmOne its PIM in that sense adapted: Datebook am called is a real Today fence now Calendar, there-that Agenda hot, and Addresses Book goes now as Contacts through the life and got there a lot of extra fields by that you also in Outlook finds again.