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So, now I have a new one because I am so addicted to it. I have another one, only it is three years old and is just now showing signs of entering retirement age. I love this device. Thought of getting an upgrade or something, but decided against it. I have dropped it untold amounts of times and it goes everywhere with me. My life is organized completely with my little computer. Why replace a good thing. Besides, there are the games in it, my fav is "daisy", so I have nicknamed my device "daisy" as well.This device is easy to use and understand also.
I have owned my palm pilot z22 for over 2 years. It has my grocery list, my "to-do" list, cd's I want to buy, calendar, notes & memos all in one place and none of it has to be written on paper. I used to keep it with my all the time, then put it to the side about a year ago as I got tired of carrying my phone & z22. But I picked it up a few months ago again, trying to go paperless and it has done the trick. I am also impressed at how much it can be used and go between charges. I am not a very techy person so this is great for me.
This was intended to be a gift.We charged it for more than the required time but it never got past the initial startup screen (orange Palm logo).Neither the soft reset nor the hard reset made any difference nor did draining the battery & recharging.This was obviously a faulty device.I've just dropped it off at the post office for return.As Amazon have extended the return window for the Christmas period I anticipate a full refund.I own a Palm Pilot & have had no real issues with it so I was quite disappointed that this organiser (for my wife) was faulty but that's the luck of the draw I suppose.
I also use it for personal contacts (phone numbers, email addresses), especially for out of town travel. I have two desks--upstairs and down--and sometimes forgot to enter items on both desk calendars. This small, lightweight personal organizer fits in my pocket and is always with me. Installation was a breeze, but I had to charge the battery a second time because the unit was slow. Haven't gotten the hang of free writing, but the alphabetic entries with the pointer work fine since recharge.
actually needed to be sure that anything I got synced with that. It spends the entire day there, I never notice the weight. None of these goofy things have caused any loss of information. For example if I sync while a Groupwise appointment is waiting to be accepted, it will give me an error message. Even turned all the way up, it is not loud.
When I am not at work, I leave work behind. The thing is smaller than anything else I was considering. I wanted. Wish someone wrote a review like this when I was looking. This was important. 5) Graffiti2 Writing is a joke.
I honestly tried to learn it and then I realized that the keyboard has a quick button, now I just use that. So, part one was not needing it to be a phone too. I quick Yahoo search found several other colleges that use Groupwise and have instructions for PDA use. My workplace uses Novel Groupwise, and my calendar is always changing with new appointments and changed meeting times. Oh, man I was really looking. After the restart it had all the information saved as before.
I've waited two months before writing this review, but I got to tell you it feels like I've been carrying my Z22 for a year. All these pointed to Palm as the leader in the choice.Pro: 1) size. It was easy to set up that any appointment on my calendar has an alarm that warms me 15 minute before hand. The one time I needed to restart was just after I dropped it. I need something to remind me I have a meeting and I need to get going.
And I'm never far away from a PC when I'm on campus anyway. The thing works about the same as it did 5 years ago and you need to be OK with that. Then I looked at web-capable PDAs. 2) Sync means one calendar. Which means it fits in my shirt pocket easily. After the first drop I take more care where I keep it at night. I attribute them to the link between Palm and Novel and the age of the software.
I just dropped it a few inches onto a table, but after that it didn't start. Novell has software for sync. 5) battery. The upside is that the whole room doesn't jump when it goes off to tell me to leave this meeting and get on to the next thing.
Imagine I would always be connected. It does EXACTLY what I need, and nothing I don't. So, part two was not needing it to browse the web.So, in the end it was all about sticking to simple. 3) take it easy.
Palm has moved on to other technology. 3) the alarm. Once I accept the appointment and re-sync everything is ok. 4) Memos. If it were bigger I would be tempted to leave it on my desk, and it would be less useful. I work in a wireless building on a wireless campus, so I was lusting at what the technology would make possible. 2) old technology means that, while Palm does have a support website, nothing is really being updated. And I really did not want to carry the thing all the time the way I do my cell phone.
It charges all night and that seems to be enough.Con: 1) there are some goofy things. When I'm at home and my wife asks if I am going to be at such-and-so, I can easily check. I cannot imagine carrying this in my briefcase and expecting to hear the alarm. In fact the battery level seems to be full all the time. And you cannot beat the below $100 price.Yes, PDAs are old technology, but I'm not the type that needs the newest anyway. So I'm not too concerned.
I'm a bit of a neat-nic, not the type to be dropping things or leaving my stuff where it is bounced around. Some reviews led me to think that it would be hard to keep it charged, but I normally work 9 and 10 hour day and haven't had any trouble. I did not expect it, but memos I write on the PDA show up on Groupwise the next time I sync.
I keep agendas for the meetings that I have, poking them in as the issue comes up, and then have it in Groupwise so that I don't need to re-key the issues for the agenda that I create. The downside would be that I would always be connected. I carry it in my shirt pocket where it is about 8 inches from my ear, so for me it works.
I have one calendar now, so nothing gets lost. If I need to travel, then I set up the travel time as an appointment and I get an alarm that reminds me to get in the car and go. 4) the alarm is not very loud.
So there you go.
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