Palm Launches Two Handhelds to Zire and Tungsten's Families
By Amy | Reporter
Date: 04/28/2003

Palm, Inc. introduced two handhelds -- the Zire 71 handheld with a built-in digital camera and audio/video playback capability; and the Tungsten C handheld, Palm's most powerful handheld computer with built-in high-speed Wi-Fi connectivity.





Zire 71

Bringing multimedia capabilities to the Zire product family, the affordable Zire 71 handheld offers a built-in digital camera. Media aficionados also will enjoy listening to MP3s, watching video clips and carrying their personal photo albums wherever they go. The all-new sliding design hides a concealed digital camera for spontaneous photo capture, giving users the ability to capture life on-the-go.

The Zire 71 handheld is available now for an estimated U.S. street price of $299.

Tungsten C

Tungsten C handheld is Palm's most powerful handheld computer with built-in high-speed wireless connectivity to address what campus networkers want most in a handheld. It is Palm's first device to ship with integrated Wi-Fi, or 802.11b, for wireless campus connectivity. It offers 64MB of memory (51MB usable) to manage data-intensive applications; 400MHz of ARM processing power; and integrated, full-featured business applications, such as VersaMail 2.5 for email, and DataViz® Documents To Go for efficiently managing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint compatible documents.

The Palm Tungsten C handheld is $499 (estimated U.S. street price) and is scheduled to be available on May 5.



In addition to Palm's classic Date Book, Address Book, To Do List and Note Pad functions, both new products feature Palm's sharpest high-resolution color screen to date (320 x 320 transflective TFT); fast ARM processors; Palm OS 5.2.1; and Palm's dual-expansion technology, which includes the Palm Expansion Slot for SD Cards, SDIO and MultiMediaCard media, and the Palm Universal Connector for hardware add-ons.