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Using Clievideo's Vivid software, you can turn your Sony Clie NR70V into a camcorder and record video clips. Vivid can export clips with a playback rate of 90 FPS and supports 20 different PC formats. The near realtime refresh of the camera on the Clie allows for a high quality capture rate of 30 FPS. This makes the Clie NR70V slightly more desirable than the Zire 71 if you want to be able to record video. The Zire 71 has no option for recording video, and the developers of Vivid report that the refresh rate of the Zire 71 camera is only 5 FPS, which means that video capture software appearing on the Zire 71 is highly unlikely. 

Odd the Zire 71's camera refresh rate is so slow. The 66 MHz Motorola Dragonball VZ processor on the NR70V is slower than the 144MHz Texas Instruments OMAP310 ARM Processor in the Zire 71. The faster processor would make you think the Zire 71 would have a faster camera refresh rate. Why, Palm, why?