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Z22 (handheld)
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The Z22 was one of the first of Palm, Inc.
's handhelds to be released under the new "Palm
" brand, and the first to be released without the "Zire" moniker. Released on October 12, 2005, it replaced the monochrome Zire 21, and was priced at $99 USD. The Palm Z22 featured Palm OS
Garnet 5.4.9 and a 200 MHz processor. The Z22 ran on a standard li-ion battery that had a life of about 8 hours depending on its function.
Designed to be attractive to first-time users, the unit lacked frills such as an external memory slot, but had the capability of trickle-charging through the USB interface when connected to a PC (so the wall-socket charger could be left at home), and the NVFS, also known as NVRAM
, meant that the unit did not lose data even if the battery power ran out.
The Z22 included a program called Addit which allowed users to order software while offline, and then have it sent to the handheld at the next hotsync. In addition, Addit included several mini-programs within itself including
, Number Board (123 icon) brought up the keypad on-screen keyboard which was used in much the same way as the letters keyboard.
The IR interface could also be used to HotSync instead of using the USB cable. In addition to HotSync the Palm also had a standard IR interface command called ‘Beam’. This command was used to send files to another IR enabled device.
The ‘Beam’ function used default IR protocols. The Palm could receive non-standard files using the IR beam method; e.g. files that cannot be transferred by using the HotSync method.
Palm, Inc.
Palm, Inc., was a smartphone manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that was responsible for products such as the Pre and Pixi as well as the Treo and Centro smartphones. Previous product lines include the PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm V, Palm VII, Zire and Tungsten. While their older...
's handhelds to be released under the new "Palm
Palm (PDA)
Palm handhelds were Personal Digital Assistants which ran the Palm OS. Palm devices have evolved from handhelds to smartphones which run Palm OS, WebOS, and Windows Mobile...
" brand, and the first to be released without the "Zire" moniker. Released on October 12, 2005, it replaced the monochrome Zire 21, and was priced at $99 USD. The Palm Z22 featured Palm OS
Palm OS
Palm OS is a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants in 1996. Palm OS is designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provided with a suite of basic applications for personal information management...
Garnet 5.4.9 and a 200 MHz processor. The Z22 ran on a standard li-ion battery that had a life of about 8 hours depending on its function.
Designed to be attractive to first-time users, the unit lacked frills such as an external memory slot, but had the capability of trickle-charging through the USB interface when connected to a PC (so the wall-socket charger could be left at home), and the NVFS, also known as NVRAM
NVRAM
Non-volatile random-access memory is random-access memory that retains its information when power is turned off, which is described technically as being non-volatile...
, meant that the unit did not lose data even if the battery power ran out.
Software
The Z22 ran most of the basic programs included in previous Palm PDAs including- Contacts
- Calculator (Calc)
- Tasks
- Calendar
- Note Pad
- Memos
- World ClockClockA clock is an instrument used to indicate, keep, and co-ordinate time. The word clock is derived ultimately from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning "bell". A silent instrument missing such a mechanism has traditionally been known as a timepiece...
- Photos
- Prefs
- HotSync
The Z22 included a program called Addit which allowed users to order software while offline, and then have it sent to the handheld at the next hotsync. In addition, Addit included several mini-programs within itself including
- ChessChessChess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
- SolitaireSolitaireSolitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself or with other people. The solitaire card game Klondike is often known as simply Solitaire....
- First Aid (basic first aid instructions)
- Check Split (a bill-splitting program)
- Carbs (a carbohydrateCarbohydrateA carbohydrate is an organic compound with the empirical formula ; that is, consists only of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, with a hydrogen:oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 . However, there are exceptions to this. One common example would be deoxyribose, a component of DNA, which has the empirical...
nutritional calculator)
Interface
In addition to touchscreen interface, there were physical and silkscreen buttons that could be used to activate programs or functions. On the silkscreen there were eight buttons: four large icons and four on the edges of the silkscreen writing area. The large icons activated the following functions by default: "home" (House Icon) took the user to the home applications menu, "menu" (pulldown icon) activated the pulldown menu, HotSync (the two arrows icon) connected the computer and the Palm Pilot and syncked information between the two, "find" (magnifying glass icon) brought up a search dialogue which allowed the user to search all files on the handheld. The four smaller buttons were at each corner of the writing area and had the following default functions: Clock (clock icon) brought up the Date and Time briefly, then reverted back to the current program, Contrast (Circle icon: half black, half white) allowed the user to adjust the contrast and brightness of the display, Keyboard (ABC Icon) brought up an on-screen keyboard that allowed the user to "type" using the stylusStylus (computing)
In computing, a stylus is a small pen-shaped instrument that is used to input commands to a computer screen, mobile device or graphics tablet...
, Number Board (123 icon) brought up the keypad on-screen keyboard which was used in much the same way as the letters keyboard.
Additional Hardware
The Z22 accepted input from numerous IR devices including other palm handhelds, some cell phones and a keyboard made by palm for IR devices. This device was called a Palm Universal Wireless Keyboard.The IR interface could also be used to HotSync instead of using the USB cable. In addition to HotSync the Palm also had a standard IR interface command called ‘Beam’. This command was used to send files to another IR enabled device.
The ‘Beam’ function used default IR protocols. The Palm could receive non-standard files using the IR beam method; e.g. files that cannot be transferred by using the HotSync method.
Software with desktop computer
The provided software allowed synchronization up to the 32 bit version of Windows Vista.External links
- Official site
- Palm Z22 on Porter Electronics (Website where they are still available)