Palm Zire 21 Review

The Palm Zire 21 is Palm's updated version of the original Palm Zire. The Zire 21 is still Palm's budget, entry-level model. It's meant to be an organizer and not much more. But they've made some improvements of the original Zire, making the Zire 21 a better value.

The Palm Zire 21 has a monochrome screen, 160 X 160 resolution. But it comes with 8 MB of memory, which is more than the feeble 2 MB that you got with the original Palm Zire. But like the original Zire, you can't add a memory card on.

Experts agree that the Palm Zire 21 is an improvement over the original Zire. It has more memory, a faster processor, and it's running Palm OS 5.

Since the Palm Zire 21 is so new on the market, there aren't many reviews available yet. In particular, there are no reviews or ratings from customers. However, the few professional reviewiers that have written about it seem to agree that it's nothing very special, but perfectly adequate for the budget market. And they agree that the Zire 21 a definite improvement over the earlier Palm Zire.

Professional Ratings: 6.2 out of 10 (2 reviews)

User Ratings: None available

Although the ratings aren't especially high, this is probably just because the Palm Zire 21 is so feature poor. No serious complaints have surfaced against the Zire 21. The only notable criticisms are that the screen is monochrome and there's no backlight.

Memory

8 MB standard
No expansion slot

Display

160 X 160 pixels
Monochrome

Processor

126 MHz Texas Instruments OMAP311 ARM

Operating System

Palm OS 5.2.1

Audio

No speaker
No headset jack
No voice recorder

Dimensions

2.9 X 4.4 X .6 inches
3.8 ounces

Software

Palm Reader
Mobile DB