The Zire 72 is Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc., was a smartphone manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that was responsible for products such as the Pre and Pixi as well as the Treo and Centro smartphones. Previous product lines include the PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm V, Palm VII, Zire and Tungsten. While their older...

's second Personal Digital Assistant

Personal digital assistant

A personal digital assistant , also known as a palmtop computer, or personal data assistant, is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager. Current PDAs often have the ability to connect to the Internet...

 with an integrated digital camera

Digital camera

A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography...

. Introduced in 2004, It is the replacement for the Zire 71

Zire Handheld

The Zire Series was Palm, Inc's "consumer-grade" brand of Personal Digital Assistant.-Background/Overview:The lower-end models emphasize price — Palm's original Zire model was the first PDA under $100 from a major manufacturer — and the higher-end models emphasize multimedia capacity, including...

, having a 1.2 megapixel camera, 32 MB of memory, built-in Bluetooth

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

 wireless communication, video recording and playback capability, a built-in microphone

Microphone

A microphone is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. In 1877, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter...

, hi-res hi-color screen, SecureDigital smartcard slot, and a 312 MHz Intel PXA270 processor.

Users have complained about several problems, most notably

• Blue paint peels off (a "special edition" version has been released that has no blue paint, just silver.)
• Camera quality (broken pixels, uncovered lens etc.)
• Screen whining
• Battery life

Palm, Inc. has released a second version of the Zire 72, the Zire 72s, which is silver. This change has fixed the problem with the paint. They have also released a newer version of the blue Zire 72, which uses a different paint, and does not peel.

As with other Bluetooth

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

 enabled devices, turning that connectivity off when not required, extends battery life.

This is the last model in PalmOne's line of multimedia Zire devices, and the last model made with a camera. The line is supposedly discontinued.

There have also been many complaints about discolored pixels, such as certain groups of pixels on the screen turning green, red, and blue.

Specifications

Built-In Wireless	Bluetooth 1.1 Compliance
Processor	Intel PXA270 at 312 MHz with Intel XScale Technology
Memory	32MB RAM (24 MB actual storage capacity)
Battery	950mAh rechargeable Lithium Ion
Operating System	Palm OS Palm OS Palm OS is a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants in 1996. Palm OS is designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provided with a suite of basic applications for personal information management...  v5.2.8
Size	4.6h × 2.95w × 0.67t in. 117h × 75w x 17t mm.
Weight	4.8 oz. / 136 grams
Display	320×320 Transflective TFT TFT LCD Thin film transistor liquid crystal display is a variant of liquid crystal display which uses thin-film transistor technology to improve image quality . TFT LCD is one type of Active matrix LCD, though all LCD-screens are based on TFT active matrix addressing...  color touchscreen with 16-Bit (65K) Color
Expansion	SD Secure Digital Secure Digital is a non-volatile memory card format developed by the SD Card Association for use in portable devices. The SD technology is used by more than 400 brands across dozens of product categories and more than 8,000 models, and is considered the de-facto industry standard.Secure Digital... , SDIO and MultiMediaCard MultiMediaCard The MultiMediaCard is a flash memory memory card standard. Unveiled in 1997 by Siemens AG and SanDisk, it is based on Toshiba's NAND-based flash memory, and is therefore much smaller than earlier systems based on Intel NOR-based memory such as CompactFlash. MMC is about the size of a postage... support via built-in expansion card slot.
Audio	Stereo audio headset compatible via 3.5mm stereo audio jack - headset sold separately
Camera	Photo: 1280×960 (maximum resolution), video: 320×240 (maximum resolution)

External links

• Product Support from Palm US Website