New Palm PDA - Zire - $89.99 @ Staples w/ free shipping

[lykaon78]

The new Palm Zire is out at Staples for $89.99. Thats $5-10 dollars cheaper than anywhere else I can find.

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Staples has free delivery on orders over $50.

First post in this forum, please be gentle.


-Lykaon78

 

[fr]

Shows as $89.99 for me. There's also a $15 off $100 coupon.

 

[lykaon78]

Sorry, got all anxious and took the instant rebate twice.

Its been fixed.

-Lykaon78

 

[Kevin]

You can get it down to $73 I think.

Add Maxell CD-Rs to bump it up over $100. Then use $20 off $100 coupon found online.

$104.93 - $20 = $84.93 Maxells come with $12 rebate
$ 84.93 - $12 = $72.93

 

[Tarobap]

Only 2 MB of memory though . . . wouldn't you be better off with a 3XE or something with 8 MB? Just a thought . . .

The Zire looks cool though . . . I like the case . . .

 

[Jened]

i can't believe palm only put 2 buttons on this. thus games or other apps that map actions to the normal 4 buttons (calendar,phone,todo,memo) may not
work as well.

 

[Flashram]

I see 4 buttons in the picture. What are you looking at?

 

[fr]

Two of those four buttons are for up/down scrolling. It is still missing the To Do and Memo buttons. This unit also does not have a backlight (weak!).

 

[WooWolf]

it's only 2mb only. So it can do only little things.

 

[hamburglar]

looks funky

 

[AnyMal]

As long as you plan on using it strictly as organizer, you'll be fine with 2MB. As for no backlight, how often was it used anyway. Anyone will tell you that backlight on Palms sucked big time, unless you used Sony.

 

[paulieside]

is there a keyboard accessory to this product?

 

[fr]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
As long as you plan on using it strictly as organizer, you'll be fine with 2MB. As for no backlight, how often was it used anyway. Anyone will tell you that backlight on Palms sucked big time, unless you used Sony.

If you happen to need to look up any information at anytime when it's dark (like at night), you will need the backlight. The backlight on non-color Palms was just green, but at least it worked.

 

[AG73]

update-
can get it for $75 after rebates from amazon.com, with free shipping
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Does anyone have this thing? Is it any good? I just need it for very basic functions.

 

[bradolson]

If you are looking at the Zire, you might want to pay a little more for the m125. 8 MB instead of the 2 with the Zire, plus a SD expansion slot and the universal connector w/ cradle.

Brad

 

[agent2099]

What is the purpose of the lower cost PDAs. Does it have a calender. All I really need is something to keep my appoitments. Is a PDA the best solution?

 

[CyberZenn]

Isnt this basically the same as the palm m100 with fewer buttons??? You can pick up the m100 cheaper than this if you look around a bit and have the extra button functionality.

 

[agent2099]

bump

 

[DTBH]

There is actually a 30 off 100 coupon for staples. Making this deal a little hotter

 

[Scyber]

It is like the m100, but the m100 is no longer manufactured and the m100 never had an MSRP of $99 (I think it was $129 at its cheapest). Plus there are rumors that this one will drop to an even lower price after the holidays.

 

[deejayshakur]

good find...but i wouldn't take it if palm paid me to. well maybe like $100. but this is basically the most retarded model of the palm family ever created. make sure you know your needs and make sure the zire meets it. i've played with one before--compared to my clie 760c, there's no comparison. it's like using a tamogachi.

 

[manuelku]

buy that pda + something to bring up to 100, use 30/100, 70 + tax.