| Manufacturer | Palm |
|---|---|
| Retail availability | 2005 |
| Media | Flash memory |
| Operating system | Palm OS Garnet 5.4.9 |
| CPU | 200 MHz Intel ARM-based processor |
| Memory | 32 MB NVRAM (4 MB dynamic heap) |
| Display | 160x160 STN screen capable of displaying 4,096 colors (12 bit) |
| Input | Touchscreen |
| Camera | N/A |
| Connectivity | Infrared, USB |
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.
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The Z22 ran most of the basic programs included in previous Palm PDAs including
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
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 stylus, Number Board (123 icon) brought up the keypad on-screen keyboard which was used in much the same way as the letters keyboard.
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.
The provided software allowed synchronization up to the 32 bit version of Windows Vista.[1]
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