Comments on: Visor Platinum Returns from the Grave

Seriously, Handspring might have been better-off taking those machines, changing the cases, and shipping them off as Visor Neos. But then, I guess that would have necessitated new packaging, etc.

What a pathetic attempt at "news" from a once-proud, now-decaying company. I honestly wonder if even the Treo--assuming it's all it's reported to be--can save them from the Dead Companies Hall of Fame.

I've had mine about 10 months and hated every day with it. The paint is worn off in places, it feels like it's falling apart, and that clip-off cover is beyond a pain. Complete junk.

I've missed by Palm III everyday since I purchased it... but I needed the 8MB.

And why anyone would buy it when they can now have a Sony with 16 MB for the same price is beyond me.

Good Point! Someone claimed that the good guys use Macs and the bad guys
use PCs, *including* Ms. I300, who we *thought* was a good guy. I can't
really tell PCs from Macson that show.

>
> I especially liked how their Visor could download satellite IMAGES
> using the GPS locator. "Look out, there's a bad guy behind that tree over
> there!" ;)
>

Nina *did* say the image was a few hours old and Jack said he just wanted
a rough head count of the bad guys, not exact postions.

It sure did look like they were using it as a GPS, though. Is there a
GPS/modem combo module we don't know about? :)

Meanwhile the bad guy with the Clie used it merely to look at an image of
the guy he was about to kill to comfirm his identity. Go figure.

Maybe they just had a bunch of silver cases left over and are slapping them onto existing Neo guts? I can't imagine the production lines being very much affected at all.

Still, it's a nice machine if it fits your needs.

K. Tran

I think that the company that produces the OS, sets the standards. Which is why I don't go with Handspring or Sorny (Stony), although the latter has caught my eye on several occasions.

Here's my take; Go with Palm if you want a PDA that'll have a lot of support (customer base), accessories, and upgradability. Go with Sony if you want a PDA that does everything you need it to do NOW, and in the very near future, regardless of add-ons. Go with Handspring to be bloody different.

Well I see the comparison of Palm to Sony to be similar to Microsoft and Apple. At least Sony des innovate and make quality product. on the other hand handspring only clams to be innovating and make crappy products.

-wg <><

I am not saying that there's no product that has a life cycle of over 5 years, Newton is a good example, 5 years after they discontinued, there are still people buying and selling it, why ?? because they use things that people could easily built on, PCMCIA, Powerful ARM Chip.

But just face it, palm's technology (should I use the word technology ?? coz there's not much technology involved in palm os anyways, O well life goes on) is so old that it's close to obsolete in the past year. Do you know why people jumped ship like crazy in the past year?

As for Visor, knowing that I'll probably won't be able to run most of those future applications on my device, and the product line will be cut in less than a year, will application developers keep development or maintainance of my application after PalmOS 5/6 is released ?

Will Visor users be able to setup a community and start making their own applications and hardware support like the newton users ?? LoL the possibility is pretty low, Are they going to build their own springboard modules??

I highly doubt anyone's still using palmpilot now, I used to have one, but I am glad I managed to sold it before palm III came out, I can't even put a decent dictionary in it without removing most of my applications.

Not if it's positioned on the display next to the Sony Clie S360, which has twice the memory, better screen, newer OS, smaller form factor, and the power of the name "Sony" across it's front.

Platinum is dead. The "warehouse theory" is correct.

That's how Sony is able to sell a 16MB handheld for $200. They saved money on the screen.

Despite the S360's many advantages, money talks. People will still be swayed by the fact that the Platinum is $40 less.

How are the S360 and m125 screens "better" than the Visor's?

As far as I've seen, and others will agree, the monochrome contrast on the Handspring screens are second to none.

For the record, I do own a Visor, but I will agree that the S360 is a more appealing machine.

rgds,

K. Tran

I like the silver colored case and it's speed, but not it's form-factor or screen.