Quickies: Visors, FreeStyle, Tipsheet, JTSoft

Posted By: As Listed Monday, January 7, 2002 8:50:32 AM

The Visor Deluxe and Platinum are no longer available from Handspring. They have been replaced with newer models. -markpmc

FreeStyle, the first Cascading Style Sheet editor for the Palm OS, is now in beta. Testers are wanted with CSS and HTML experience. -Eston Bond

In the first edition of the Palm Tipsheet for 2002, guest writer J. Kevin Wolfe shares the inside story of his switch from a Psion 5mx to a Handspring Visor Edge. The Tipsheet Interview is with Ted Whipp, a Canadian Palm user and newspaper journalist. -Mike Rohde

JTSoft2001 is looking for users with hi-res devices who would like to beta test The Temperature Converter. -Justin Travis

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Lame..

Foo @ 1/7/2002 9:30:32 AM #

Handspring's Neo and Pro are so unimpressive, I don't understand why they even bothered replacing the Deluxe and Plat. They could have saved themselves money simply by updating the OS to 3.5 and be done with it. If HS or Palm continue to release products like this, it will actually hurt their credibility.

I disagree...sort of

I.M. Anonymous @ 1/7/2002 9:53:16 AM #

As a current owner of a PDA I would not be interested in the Neo or Pro because the upgrade would not be worth the expense...but for a first time buyer, the Neo makes a nice first unit.

It is essentially a freshened up Deluxe and the cost to retool was probably minimal.

RE: Lame..

Foo @ 1/7/2002 9:59:22 AM #

That's the problem. There are plenty of low cost choices for new users, but there is virtually nothing for upgraders! We don't need anymore $199 grayscale PDAs, there are already TOO MANY of those on the market as is. That's why prices are being slashed so drastically...inventory glut and product saturation. When you have a market that is over-crowded with similar products, you don't introduce more similar new products...it's suicide. You create something DIFFERENT.

er ... Treo

Edward @ 1/7/2002 10:19:06 AM #

"you don't introduce more similar new products...it's suicide. You create something DIFFERENT."

Lo, behold, Handspring did.

And the Press saw that it was good.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/664845.asp
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L52F2064
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I61F2564

RE: Lame..

Foo @ 1/7/2002 10:33:02 AM #

The Treo is a communicator. I'm talking about PDAs.

Not a PDA?

I.M. Anonymous @ 1/7/2002 10:53:07 AM #

Does that mean that a Visor with the VisorPhone springboard attached is no longer classified as a PDA either? True, the Treo is not part of the Visor line of products, but I would have to disagree with it not being categorized as at least a PDA. Many people will be buying a Treo to replace(instead of) another PDA. Are they all missing on something?

RE: Lame..

I.M. Anonymous @ 1/7/2002 6:10:26 PM #

A PDA is a PDA, not a communicator. Handspring (HS) is spending so much on its communicator that it is completely ignoring its bread-and-butter business, the PDA. HS sales in the PDA market are already at an all time low and newcomers like Sony are more tham happy to steal the thunder underneath HS.

It's great that HS has the innovation to bring out their new Treo communicators, but at least keep up the excitement in your core business line - don't just abandon it with the hopes that the Treo will save your company...I couldn't care less for the Treo, but the new Sony 615 has me more excited than any other PDA has done in a long time. And, Palm, well, they are pretty much out of the ballgame at this point because no Palm model offers any excitement nor enthusiasm at all.

RE: Lame..

Dark @ 1/7/2002 11:07:57 PM #

IMHO, Sony is delivering the most exciting products and gaining on the Palm PDA market with their Clie N and T series. Handspring's units (PDAs) doesn't get enough attention just

like what happened to their Edge. They are trying to get market share via their Treo line. They only have to compete with Kyocera and Samsung compared with a number of Palm licensees

that does PDAs, i.e., Palm, Sony, HandEra, Acer, etc.
PDA/Phone combo units have a totally new market in which everyone can excel.

Just my two cents...

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www.PalmVenue.com - Where Palm OS users and developers meet.

Why?

I.M. Anonymous @ 1/7/2002 11:29:52 AM #

Why would any slef-respecting person want to edit style sheets on their PDA? I'd rather be a bikini waxer at a fat farm.

RE: Why?

lynuhx @ 1/7/2002 11:50:26 AM #

I can't imagine why anyone would disparage any functional convenience out of hand so easily. I personally have no need to eddit CSS files while on the go, but I imagine that with the growth in wireless that someone will. Any admin with a wireless connection could change a value for an entire site with a simple edit. Why is there something wrong with that?