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Handspring Visor In Glorious Colour
News Handheld computer company Handspring announced its first colour PDA, the Visor Prism, Monday. With the Visor Prism, Handspring will be hoping to make great play of its Springboard add-on slot, which allows the handheld computer to be turned into a...
[October 16, 2000, 15:48]
Handspring Visor Edge To Debut Monday
News Handspring is expected to launch its latest PDA on Monday -- the Visor Edge, a slim, metal-encased handheld. The new model, which has the same amount of memory and processing power as the Visor Platinum, has a new, smaller expansion slot but can...
[March 9, 2001, 8:55]
Picture This: Handspring's Visor Edge Revealed
News As previously reported, the latest addition is the Visor Edge (see picture), which is Handspring's extra-thin handheld designed to compete with Palm's V series. Just when you thought there was no escape from buying a colour pocket computer, the...
[March 13, 2001, 9:43]
Handspring Ships One Millionth Visor
News Handspring announced Wednesday it shipped its one millionth Visor PDA. The Visor Prism and VisorPhone are signed by Handspring chief product officer Jeff Hawkins, who is often referred to as the father of the PDA for inventing the Palm Pilot in 1994.
[December 7, 2000, 8:29]
Handspring's Explanation Adds To Visor Confusion
News Springboard module makers would face the loss of their development investment if the Visor line were to suddenly disappear. Most ambiguously, Hawkins gives the impression that the Visor organiser line will remain static until it is phased out.
[January 21, 2002, 14:00]
Handspring Shakes On Content Deal With MSN
News Handspring and Microsoft's MSN division announced an agreement on Tuesday, making MSN Mobile the first destination for Web-surfing Visor owners. Visor owners who surf the Web use Handspring's Blazer browser, which the company acquired when it...
[May 16, 2001, 8:22]
Palm Still Handheld King
News Handspring has generated a lot of buzz around its Visor product and the various modules that can occupy the Springboard expansion slot. By the fall Novatel will also have the Minstrel S, which will be used by Omnisky to support the Handspring Visor...
[June 28, 2000, 8:26]
Rivals To Handspring: Bring It On!
News With only a small amount of fanfare, Handspring on Tuesday officially announced its Visor handheld organiser -- and rivals Palm Computing and Microsoft said they welcome the competition. Handspring will offer three Visor models.
[September 15, 1999, 9:03]
The 'quiet' Company Behind Visor
News Expandability is one of the bragging points of Handspring's Visor line of handhelds -- and The Windward Group, a former subsidiary of Metamor Software Solutions, is charged with seeing that those modular add-ons come into being.
[September 15, 1999, 15:12]
Visor To Arm-wrestle Palm In Stores
News Handspring's Visor is ready to do a front somersault into US stores. Visor, which began shipping last October, is currently available only from Handspring, which takes phone or Web orders for the device.
[February 11, 2000, 8:43]
Handspring Homes In On Midrange
News One device will replace the $199 (about £140) Handspring Visor Deluxe, and the other will be the successor to the $249 Visor Platinum. Consumer-electronics giant Sony, which has been known for offering premium products, jumped into the midrange...
[August 16, 2001, 9:02]
A Year Ago: Palm Still Handheld King
News Handspring has generated a lot of buzz around its Visor product and the various modules that can occupy the Springboard expansion slot. By the fall Novatel will also have the Minstrel S, which will be used by Omnisky to support the Handspring Visor...
[June 28, 2001, 6:05]
Handspring To License Qualcomm Wireless Standard
News Qualcomm has granted Handspring, the maker of the Visor handheld computer, a license for its digital wireless standard, extending the technology beyond telephones. Handspring, whose Visor handheld computer uses the Palm operating system, will be...
[August 9, 2000, 13:59]
Xircom To Support Handspring
News The company is to develop communications-based Springboard expansion modules for Handspring's Visor handheld PC. A UK release date has not yet been set for the Visor, although it is available through the Handspring Web site.
[January 6, 2000, 10:50]
Handspring Colour PDA, Phone Module Near
News Sources tell ZDNet News that Handspring will be releasing two Visor units 19 October -- including its first colour model -- and a mobile phone module on 25 September. Sources said not to expect a drop in price of other Visor units in Handspring's...
[September 20, 2000, 8:16]
Visor Review: 'Embracing And Extending' The Palm
News Brought to you by the same people who thought up the 3Com PalmPilot, the Handspring Visor, introduced today, is a new PDA that looks similar to the Palm organisers and runs the same operating system and applications.
[September 15, 1999, 16:03]
Meet The Ex-Palm Visionary
News And every time Handspring has shown up at trade show, its booth has been inundated with people wanting to get their hands on a Visor. Hawkins said he hadn't yet invented the Visor when he and Handspring CEO Donna Dubinsky left Palm in 1998 to start...
[October 22, 1999, 11:34]
Wireless Data Trials Include Free Visorphone
News OmniSky, the US wireless information provider, is enticing users to a trial run of its wireless Web and email service in the UK by throwing a free Handspring Visor and VisorPhone, as well as unlimited online time for three months.
[February 23, 2001, 16:00]
Palm Competitor - Or Is It A Partner?
News Handspring declined to comment on Visor. As previously reported, start-up Handspring on Tuesday will announce Visor, a low-cost handheld that runs the Palm operating system. And the price of Visor machines will be less than half of the price of...
[September 10, 1999, 9:40]
The Day Ahead: Will Handspring Shares Fare Better Than Palm?
News In fact, Handspring, whose Visor gadgets run on the Palm OS, is a less developed version of Palm. Handspring is hoping its Springboard modules, add-in products that can turn its Visor into a cell phone or MP3 player, will differentiate the company...
[June 19, 2000, 13:45]
