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105390 2002-12-12 08:35:00 I am looking at buying a Palm Zire and wanted to know if it can be used as a MP3 player.

Any comments greatly appreciated

Thanks

Donald M
Donald M (942)
105391 2002-12-12 09:49:00 The Zire ships with 2 Mb memory, and as far as I know is non expandable. Even if it could accommodate an MP3 player application in ROM, you could only store 2 minutes of music, assuming you had no other data.

As a rule of thumb, count on 1 Mb of RAM/Card storage for every minute of music, at minimum quality. Palm OS is highly efficient, but they don't have much on-board memory, for that very reason.

You need to look at the Pocket PC handhelds for storage (mine has 320 Mb of memory) and MP3 players (its a native function in the Windows 2002 OS, which has Media Player incorporated)
godfather (25)
105392 2002-12-12 10:21:00 Thanks for that godfather Donald M (942)
105393 2002-12-12 19:18:00 The higher end Tungsten Palms will do it.
But there are people giving away MP3 players, I can't remember with what, might have been a cellphone or DVD player.

I would choose one wisely, the software for my Philips Rush seems to have packed a sad and I can't be arsed to fix it.
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