Palm Z22 Essentials Pak

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FDUYF8
• Item model number: 1048NA-BP
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,065 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 12, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com
The Z22 Essentials Pak features the Palm Z22 organizer, a free carry case, extra styli, and extra screen protectors (over a $20 value). Combining an attractive design and a full color, the blue skin case is the ideal solution to secure your organizer. Three styli are perfect for keeping extras in your home or office. Four screen protectors ensure your screen is protected from scratches.

The Palm Z22 organizer is so easy to use you can get started in a few simple steps. Pick it up. It’s small and light. Turn it on. There's a bright color screen. Appointments, phone numbers, to-do lists, and photos--keep it all there. It's a little organizer with a lot to love.

About the Palm Z22
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, bonus software, and included in the Z22 Essentials Pak a free carry case, extra styli, and extra screen protectors

Product Description
The Palm Z22 Essentials Pak features the Palm Z22 organizer plus a free case, extra styli and screen protectors (over a $20 value!)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best budget PDA yet, May 24, 2006

By	Stuck in Houston (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

My decision to get the Z22 came about because my last PDA's flip lid was breaking up, the battery was showing signs of age, and I wanted an updated version of Palm Calendar that'll let me input appointments that span across midnight. I've used several Palms and I know I don't need anything fancy so I went with the Z22. The Essentials pack was on sale when I decided I wanted it so that's what I got. Things I like are that it's small and lightweight and is the lowest priced color PDA as of this review.

There's plenty of reviews for the standard package Z22 so I'll try to go over aspects that's not as mentioned much. Due to Z22 being a low-res OS5, it's got fewer compatible games than the rest of its contemporaries due to that a lot of low-res games don't work well with OS5 and most OS5 games are built for high-res only. Even then there's still plenty of decent games available to play for the Z22 but you may have to comb more carefully for compatible ones. Handwriting recognition doesn't respond as quick as for my previous PDA. I believe this may be a fault of the Graffiti 2 system as my last PDA used the original Graffiti. You can set your own wallpaper for the Applications view and the Agenda view in Calendar which is a nice little extra. Holding down the middle button of the 5way pad brings up the alerts screen which was different from some of the previous models which brings up the Applications view when you did the same thing. They should make it so you can select what you want it to do like the way you can select what happens when you drag up from the graffiti area. It seems most of the recent Palms including this one includes Addit, a software that helps you shop and download additional Palm software as well as download the latest news to the PDA. The Z22 uses a standard mini-USB to USB cable to sync to the PC which is good since you can find those at any decent PC shop if you should lose yours.

One major bug I would like to note is that the Calendar's Agenda view will not show appointments that span past midnight. If the event starts or ends directly at midnight, it will show with no problems but if it goes even five minutes over (say 10:30pm to 12:05am), it won't show on the Agenda view. It isn't a problem for me as far as time scheduling goes but it is an inconvenience since it means I can't rely on the Agenda view to see all of my upcoming events.

Other than the above problem, I'm fairly happy with my Z22. It's small, highly pocketable, and has more than enough things on it to keep me occupied when I have nothing else to do. Highly recommended for those trying out PDAs or those only needing the basic PIM functions.

A few suggestions: use the included screen protectors and get an Air Case if you plan to stick it in a pocket. The Flexi-cases for me were useless but YMMV.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Got Vista Don't bother!, June 14, 2008

By	Nelson T. Champine (NEWPORT, NC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Nice unit, small and compact.
But....this thing does NOT seem to like Windows Vista.
Will not download the photo software from the CD. Palm Customer Service is less than helpful.
May have to return this junk and get something that actually works as advertised.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product, June 16, 2008

By	SorayaSamuel (Orlando, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

I have to say I am loving my Z22 Palm! I've had it for a little over a month by now. I have had no problems with it like other reviews had mentioned, and I use it every day for everything that requires organizing and keeping up to date.(calendar, grocery lists, appoinments, addresses, to do list, quick reminders, you name it.. it can do it...) I am just mad I did not buy something like this years earlier. It is so easy to use and so many programs you can add to it. I will never go back to a paper calendar organizer ever again. I do recommend the screen protectors because the screen will get scratch if left inside a purse unprotected. The only thing negative about it is that I am still looking for something that will cover the screen when not in use so that the screen is not out in the open all the time, but besides from that it has been a great product.I definately recommed to anyone who still uses an organizer book-calendar.