Palm Cuts the Price of the Zire 72

Palm, Inc. has dropped the price for one of its consumer-oriented models.

It wasn't a big drop, though. This handheld was previously selling for $250, and it is now going for $230.

Over the summer, Palm cut $50 off the original price for the Zire 72.

This handheld was released over a year ago, so it's not surprising that its price has been dropping.

In addition, this is only the official price for this model. Shopper.com shows a couple of online stores selling it for less.

Still No Signs of a Successor

Last Spring, rumors were everywhere that Palm was going to release an updated version of this model, which would be called the Zire 73.

Obviously, this didn't happen.

Palm has also announced its New Handhelds for this fall, and the Zire 73 was not on the list.

At this point, there's no way to know when, or if, this company plans to put out another mid-range handheld with an integrated camera.

An Overview of the Zire 72

The Zire 72 is a mid-range model created for consumers, not business users.

It has a 320-by-320-pixel screen that displays 16-bit color. It also has a built-in camera.

It runs Palm OS Garnet (5.2.8) on a 312 MHz Intel XScale processor.

The Zire 72 includes 32 MB of RAM, but only 25 MB of this is available to the user. As an older model, it doesn't include NVFS memory.

It was Palm's first mid-range handheld to include Bluetooth short-range wireless networking.

Related Links

• Brighthand Reviews the Palm Zire 72
• There Won't Be a Zire 73