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Palm Z22 for my daughter

Z22 Last year, I had given a well used Tapwave Zodiac to my daughter to play her games on. It is great watching preschooler use a PDA - even if it is for games. Well, the Zodiac recently developed a digitizer drift problem. I had not been able to do anything to fix it, so I decided to get her another one off of eBay. I didn't want to spend a lot on it, after all it is for a 5 year old. I found a refurb Palm Z22 for a decent price and it arrived today. It's quite different than the Zodiac, of course. It has a low-res screen and it does not have stereo sound. But it will still be great for keeping her busy at times. I also put some phone numbers of family and close friends and some birthdays before I gave it to her. She loved the gift and spent quite a while playing with it this evening. She wanted to call her MawMaw and tell her about it. Of course, she wanted to look up the phone number in her PDA and then dial it herself.

OK, to be absolutely honest, I hadn't really planned on getting her a replacement for the Zodiac. However, she had been asking me quite often recently if she could play with my Treo 680 and I just couldn't go for that!