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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]
Visor To Arm-wrestle Palm In Stores
News Handspring's Visor is ready to do a front somersault into US stores. The company, which burst on to the handheld scene last September, is preparing to make its Palm OS-based Visor handhelds available at a select group of US retail stores by the end...
[February 11, 2000, 8:43]
News Burst: Visor Prism In Glorious Colour
News The handheld Visor PDA is going colour and if the boasts of company executives at Handspring are to be believed, it could give other colour PDAs serious trouble. The company makes no secret of its tardy entry with the colour model, but argues that...
[October 16, 2000, 10:27]
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]
Palm Creators Prep Faster, Cheaper Visor
News Handspring will turn the Palm world on its ear next Tuesday when it releases Visor -- a cheaper, faster and more expandable Palm operating system-based handheld device. According to sources, there will be three Visor models:
[September 8, 1999, 14:44]
Handspring Ships One Millionth Visor
News Handspring announced Wednesday it shipped its one millionth Visor PDA. To celebrate, the company is going to offer up the unit, a Visor Prism, and the first hotly anticipated VisorPhone module on eBay.
[December 7, 2000, 8:29]
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. Chief product officer Jeff Hawkins dubbed the Visor Edge the "thinnest in the industry".
[March 13, 2001, 9:43]
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]
Handspring Visor In Glorious Colour
News Handheld computer company Handspring announced its first colour PDA, the Visor Prism, Monday. The company also took the wraps off what it claims is the fastest handheld computer on the market -- the Visor Platinum.
[October 16, 2000, 15:48]
Handspring's Explanation Adds To Visor Confusion
News Most ambiguously, Hawkins gives the impression that the Visor organiser line will remain static until it is phased out. Hawkins says that the product line will be consolidated into three units, the Visor Pro, Visor Neo and Visor Edge.
[January 21, 2002, 14:00]
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. Palm Computing officials maintain that the company wins...
[September 15, 1999, 9:03]
Xircom To Support Handspring
News The company is to develop communications-based Springboard expansion modules for Handspring's Visor handheld PC. Xircom said that it will provide a variety of Springboard modules integrating Ethernet, modem and wireless technologies giving Visor...
[January 6, 2000, 10:50]
Where Are Handspring's Add-in Products?
News Handspring's pledge last fall to deliver an array of plug-in devices for its Palm-based Visor handheld -- everything from an MP3 player to a cell phone -- has fallen behind schedule. A Handspring executive said the problem isn't with its technology...
[May 11, 2000, 8:27]
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]
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]
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. The Novatel and Omnisky announcements were the biggest news for the Handspring Visor platform but communications...
[June 28, 2001, 6:05]
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. The Novatel and Omnisky announcements were the biggest news for the Handspring Visor platform but communications...
[June 28, 2000, 8:26]
QuickTime Coming To PDAs
News A US company says it is developing software that plays Apple's QuickTime video format on handheld computers such as the Handspring Visor Prism and the Linux-based Zaurus SL-5500 from Sharp. The player presently works with the Visor Prism and Zaurus...
[March 25, 2002, 14:15]
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]
Handspring Colour PDA, Phone Module Near
News Sources said not to expect a drop in price of other Visor units in Handspring's product line. 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...
[September 20, 2000, 8:16]
