The Z22 was one of the first of
Palm, Inc.'s handhelds to be released under the new "
Palm
Palm most commonly refers to:
* Palm of the hand, the central region of the front of the hand
* Palm plants, of family Arecaceae
** List of Arecaceae genera
* Several other plants known as "palm"
Palm or Palms may also refer to:
Music
* Palm (b ...
" brand, and the first to be released without the "Zire" moniker. Released on October 12, 2005, it replaced the monochrome
Zire 21
The Zire Series was Palm, Inc's "consumer-grade" brand of Personal Digital Assistant.
Background/Overview
The lower-end models emphasized value — Palm's original Zire model was the first PDA under $100 from a major manufacturer — and the high ...
, and was priced at $99
USD. The Palm Z22 came with
Palm OS
Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provi ...
Garnet 5.4.9 preloaded and is not upgradable. It featured a 200 MHz
Samsung
The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...
S3C2410 ARM processor developed around the 32-bit
ARM920T
ARM9 is a group of 32-bit RISC ARM processor cores licensed by ARM Holdings for microcontroller use. The ARM9 core family consists of ARM9TDMI, ARM940T, ARM9E-S, ARM966E-S, ARM920T, ARM922T, ARM946E-S, ARM9EJ-S, ARM926EJ-S, ARM968E-S, ARM996H ...
core that implements the
ARMv4T architecture. The Z22 ran on a
li-ion
A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery which uses the reversible reduction of lithium ions to store energy. It is the predominant battery type used in portable consumer electronics and electric vehicles. It also see ...
battery that had a life of about 8 hours depending on usage.
Overview
Designed to be attractive to first-time users, the Palm Z22 included many of the basic applications made famous by the iconic
Palm family of handheld
PDAs.
[Palm Official site](_blank)
/ref> Positioned as an entry level PDA and priced below the $100 price mark it lacked pricy extras such as: a camera, an MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Orig ...
player, an expansion SD memory slot, etc.
It included a wall charger and a USB cable to trickle-charge through the USB interface when connected to a PC (so the wall-socket charger can be left at home). The Non-Volatile File System (NVFS
Non-Volatile File System (NVFS) is a flash memory file system introduced in the release of Palm's Personal Digital Assistant handheld models Tungsten T5, Tungsten E2, Palm TX, Z22, Treo 650/ 700/680/ 755p, and Palm Centro.
Background Overvie ...
), also known as NVRAM
Non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) is random-access memory that retains data without applied power. This is in contrast to dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and static random-access memory (SRAM), which both maintain data only for as lon ...
, ensured that data was never lost even if the battery was fully discharged.[Palm Z22 Handheld Datasheet](_blank)
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Software
The Z22 can run most of the basic programs included in previous Palm PDAs including:Clock
A clock or a timepiece is a device used to measure and indicate time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units such as the day, the lunar month and t ...
# Photos
# Prefs
# HotSync
Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is prov ...
The Z22 came with a program called Addit Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...
# Solitaire
Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself, usually with cards, but also with dominoes. The term "solitaire" is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout tiles, pegs or stones. These gam ...
# First Aid (basic first aid instructions)
# Check Split (a bill-splitting program)
# Carbs (a carbohydrate
In organic chemistry, a carbohydrate () is a biomolecule consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 (as in water) and thus with the empirical formula (where ''m'' may or ...
nutritional calculator)
Third party software known to run on Z22:
* MobiReader (as example useful for dictionaries in mobi format)
Interface
In addition to touchscreen interface, there are physical and silkscreen buttons that can be used to activate programs or functions. On the silkscreen there are eight buttons: four large icons and four on the edges of the silkscreen writing area. With the factory default settings the large icons activate the following functions: "home"HotSync
Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is prov ...
(the two arrows icon) connected the computer and the Palm Pilot and syncs information between the two, "find" (magnifying glass icon) brings up a search dialogue which allows the user to search all files on the handheld. The four smaller buttons are at each corner of the writing area and have the following default functions: Clock (clock icon) brings up the Date and Time briefly, then reverts to the current program, Contrast (Circle icon: half black, half white) allows the user to adjust the contrast and brightness of the display, Keyboard (ABC Icon) brings up an on-screen keyboard that allowed the user to "type" using the stylus
A stylus (plural styli or styluses) is a writing utensil or a small tool for some other form of marking or shaping, for example, in pottery. It can also be a computer accessory that is used to assist in navigating or providing more precision ...
, Number Board (123 icon) brings up the keypad on-screen keyboard which is used in much the same way as the letters keyboard.
Additional Hardware
The Z22 accepts input from numerous IR devices including other Palm handhelds, some cell phones
A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link whil ...
and a keyboard made by palm for IR devices.
Software with desktop computer
The provided software allowed synchronization up to the 32-bit version of Windows Vista.
Synchronization on 64-bit systems are possible with a driver released by Aceeca.64 bit USB Windows Driver for Palm/Garnet OS
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References
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http://kidbots.com/WEBADD/Z22_PALM_PILOT/Z22_PALM_PILOT.html
External links
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For valid support, see:
http://kidbots.com/WEBADD/Z22_PALM_PILOT/Z22_PALM_PILOT.html
Palm Z22 Handheld Datasheet
Palm Official site
Palm Z22
o
Porter Electronics
(Website where they are still available)
MobiReader for PalmOs
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Palm OS devices