Product Review
The successor to Palm's Zire 21, PalmOne Zire 31 is designed for value-conscious students, parents, and anyone who wants to keep their most important day-to-day schedule and contact information close at hand. The bright color screen lets you show off your favorite snapshots (stored on optional expansion cards) to friends, family, and coworkers. The Zire 31 also offers a built-in MP3 player and Secure Digital card expansion for storing digital audio files and photos.
The Zire 31 also offers the upgraded features: Color display (versus the Zire 21's monochrome screen), 16 MB of Memory (versus the Zire 21's 8 MB), MP3 digital audio capability, and Palm OS 5.2.8 (versus 5.2.1 for the Zire 21). The Palm Zire 31 features a 160 x 160 color STN screen that displays thousands of colors and features contrast.
The Zire 31 is powered by Palm OS 5.2.8, which provides higher performance, enhanced multimedia features, and enterprise-class security. It useses the intuitive and easy-to-learn Graffiti 2 writing software to input data into the handheld (as well as an on-screen keyboard). Windows users can synchronize calendar, contacts, tasks and notes with Microsoft Outlook.
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