Product Description

Palm puts the pleasure in staying organized with the Palm Z22 handheld: an incredibly easy-to-use personal organizer. Featuring a bright color display, it gives you easy access to your calendar, contacts and photos. You can make changes and add new records by writing on the screen. All your information is stored safely in the handheld's non-volatile memory. When you get home just press a button to copy the information to your PC or Mac for safekeeping. And all this in cool and compact design you'll love.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #439 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: white
• Brand: Palm
• Model: 1048NA
• Platform: PDA
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 6.00 pounds
• Battery type: Lithium Ion
• Display size: 5

Features

• Cool, affordable handheld with 32 MB of flash memory and bright color screen
• Perfect replacement for your messy paper daily organizer
• Weighing in at just over 3 ounces, this lightweight organizer is about the size of a deck of cards
• Easily connect and synchronize with data stored on your computer; view digital photos
• Palm Desktop Software for Windows and Mac

Amazon.com Product Description
If you're still using a paper planner, maybe it's time to catch up with technology and upgrade to the affordable and easy-to-use Palm Z22 handheld. It enables you to keep your entire day-to-day schedule and contact information at hand and in your pocket--no more flipping through multiple pages, looking for scraps of paper or keeping track of to-do lists. And you won't have to enter the same thing twice--once on the computer and once in your planner, as you can easily make updates on your computer and synchronize data to the Palm Z22 in just a minute or two.

This handheld features a 32 MB of flash memory (20 MB accessible for file and software storage), Palm OS 5.4 (Garnet), a fast 200 MHz ARM-based processor, and an internal rechargeable battery (that can be charged via the included AC adapter or via the USB cable connected to your PC).

Weighing just over 3 ounces and about the same size as a deck of playing cards, the Palm Z22 is compact and stylish with a white front and translucent blue backing. Small enough to fit into any purse, backpack or back pocket, it boasts a bright, 160 x 160-pixel color touchscreen display, which provides easy readability of names, addresses, and appointments. You can even color-code appointments for improved organization, and view and carry pictures of friends and family wherever you go.

Operating System and Software
The installed Palm OS 5.4 uses the intuitive and easy-to-learn Graffiti 2 writing software to input data into the handheld (as well as an on-screen keyboard). Windows users can synchronize their calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes with Microsoft Outlook. The Palm OS features the following organizer applications:

• Contacts: Lets you store several addresses for each contact, and with new fields for more phone numbers, multiple e-mail addresses, instant messenger IDs, and Web sites.
• Calendar: Use the new Agenda view to see upcoming calendar events, tasks due, and important e-mail, and color-code your events to provide an easy way to reference your calendar in the Agenda, Day, Week, and Month views. Take more notes, or synchronize more details from your desktop, in the larger Memos and Notes fields.
• Tasks: Use tasks with alarms and repeating tasks to set reminders for important commients.

It also includes AddIt, a program that includes a variety of applications such as CheckSplit, Chess, Carb Counter and Solitaire. The bonus software CD-ROM has an eBook reader with three books and a dictionary, the powerOne Calculator (perfect for basic and advanced mathematics), and SplashShopper (a helpful shopping list application).

Compatibility
The Palm Z22 is compatible with PCs running Windows Windows 2000 (SP4) and XP (Outlook synchronization requires MS Outlook 2000, 2002, or 2003; sold separately), and with Macs running Mac OS 10.2.8 to 10.4.

What's in the Box
Palm Z22 handheld, USB sync cable, power adapter, 3-step setup poster, Graffiti 2 sticker, Software Install CD-ROM with Palm Desktop, Tutorial, Getting Started Guide, User Guide, and bonus software.

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Customer Reviews

Best Palm I ever owned
This is the best Palm I ever owned. Many Palm branded devices were pleged with problems. The issue some of the early models had was that sometimes if the machine reset or if you let the battery die you would lose the memory and have to hook the device to your computer to reload from the last back up. The problem is with this is sometimes I wouldn't back up right away and I would loose my new to do lists and my new calendar entries. The Z22 fixed this problem by protecting the memory so that it will retain the memory long after the battery ran out of juice. This has been a life saver. I have owned this unit for years and have had very few problems with it.

Some may say this machine isn't that great because it doesn't have WiFi, it's not a phone, it doesn't have a memory expansion slot but to me these are all pluses. I have an iphone for doing everything else but it is nice to have a device with a book reader where I can read and not feel the need to click some icon to check my mail. It is a light dependable PDA that does what it is supposed to do.

Sadly it looks like this unit after all these years is being discontinued. If you can find one snatch it up because you will never find another PDA like this one ever again.

Palm Zire - Wonderful addition to my life!
I had an old Palm Zire that was dying. I saw this new one on Amazon.com and ordered it. It is in color and works beautifully!! I keep all my contacts and calendar on it and love it. Thanks for having it available!!

Works like a charm for a newbie.
I purchased this unit a few months ago and have thus far been very impressed..I wanted it ONLY to keep up with scheduling. I did subsequently purchase a couple software downloads that I used a bit, but quickly tired of. The unit itself it very user friendly for people like me that have never really had any type of device like this... I actually am here now to buy another unit for my husband for Christmas because it is so user friendly and durable and he needs both of those qualities. I run Vista on my computer, Outlook 2007 and have had NO issues.. But as I said, I am only using it mainly for the calender bit, and for little notes I write myself... (And the free little game that came on it...haha)

Big thumbs up from the newbie / wanna be electronics geek ;)