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Handspring Cuts VisorPhone Price Ahead Of UK Launch
News In the latest price cut to hit the handheld market, Handspring is slicing $50 off the price tag of its VisorPhone attachment for making phone calls. With the price cut being announced Tuesday, the VisorPhone will sell for $249 with activation of...
[May 15, 2001, 8:23]
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-based Phone To Hit Europe This Summer
News Handheld computer maker Handspring said yesterday that it will launch its hotly-anticipated mobile phone device, VisorPhone, for the European market by summer. VisorPhone debuted in the US market at the end of last year, but Handspring only...
[February 22, 2001, 7:29]
Handspring To Drop Treo Price, Add GPRS
News Treo is the successor to VisorPhone, which added mobile phone capabilities to a handheld, but Handspring says it will push much harder to make Treo a success. One sticking point for VisorPhone in the UK has been price: it sells for hundreds of...
[October 17, 2001, 12:39]
Handspring To Launch Two PDA-mobile Phones
News Both devices can surf the Internet using Handspring's Blazer browser and have phone features similar to Handspring's VisorPhone attachment. Earlier Tuesday, Handspring began offering its VisorPhone for free with service activation and the purchase...
[August 29, 2001, 8:51]
Handspring Shakes On Content Deal With MSN
News The new version of Blazer, which incorporates MSN, is available for $19.95 (£13.98) or comes free on a CD bundled with VisorPhone. All Visors have Springboard expansion slots that can be fitted with the VisorPhone to give owners the ability to make...
[May 16, 2001, 8:22]
Handspring Begins Selling Treo In US
News Handspring is also looking to reach out to those who bought its first wireless product, the VisorPhone, which plugged into the Springboard expansion slot of a Visor handheld. Handspring is offering VisorPhone owners the chance to buy the Treo at...
[February 11, 2002, 9:48]
Microsoft Profits From Death Of Odin
News The expandable platform would open the way to a voice attachment similar to VisorPhone. Handspring released VisorPhone, which adds wireless and voice capabilities to existing handhelds, in the US in December, and will sell a European version by mid...
[March 2, 2001, 7:10]
Palm Plays It Safe With Wireless
News The devices are similar to VisorPhone but don't work with the mid-range Palm III series or the consumer m100. Handspring meanwhile debuted its European VisorPhone at GSM World Congress, claiming the device would change the way people use mobile...
[February 27, 2001, 15:43]
Handspring Wireless Handhelds To Launch On Monday
News According to documents that appeared on the FCC site, the devices can surf the Internet using Handspring's Blazer browser and offer phone functions similar to the VisorPhone add-on. The first effort was the VisorPhone, an add-on module to create...
[October 12, 2001, 12:12]
Strong Sales Do The Trick For Handspring
News Dubinsky said Handspring will expand nationwide the launch of VisorPhone, an add-on module that turns its handheld computer into a cell phone. The VisorPhone is already offered on Handspring's Web site for customers in California, Nevada, North...
[January 18, 2001, 12:14]
Symbian Chief Blasts Microsoft
News Stinger also faces competition from VisorPhone, a mobile phone attachment for Handspring's Visor PDA, which has been on sale in the US since December. Handspring announced Wednesday that VisorPhone will ship in Europe by this summer.
[February 22, 2001, 14:53]
Handspring Stepping Into Corporate Market
News Such devices build on the company's initial wireless effort, the VisorPhone add-on, which Epting admits failed to live up to expectations. We can admit the VisorPhone sales have been slow," Epting said, adding that "the software work we did has...
[September 27, 2001, 13:20]
Handspring Ships One Millionth Visor
News To celebrate, the company is going to offer up the unit, a Visor Prism, and the first hotly anticipated VisorPhone module on eBay. The Visor Prism and VisorPhone are signed by Handspring chief product officer Jeff Hawkins, who is often referred to...
[December 7, 2000, 8:29]
Handspring Poised To Sell PDA-phone
News With Wavecom's module, Colligan said that Mountain View, California-based Handspring can offer a device that is as small as many cell phones and has comparable voice quality, two things that were lacking in the company's first wireless effort, the...
[November 13, 2001, 8:59]
Handspring Colour PDA, Phone Module Near
News VisorPhone will be a Handspring cellular phone module costing $299. Both units will come with Springboard slots, which will take advantage of a new module that Handspring will be announcing on 25 September, called the VisorPhone.
[September 20, 2000, 8:16]
OmniSky Brings Wireless Web To The Palm V
News OmniSky International, headed up by CEO Neville Street, has been beta-testing its integrated Web clipping and email service in the UK since February, using Handspring's Visor and the VisorPhone GSM springboard module.
[March 22, 2001, 12:30]
Handspring Slashes UK Prices
News In a statement released on Tuesday, the company announced special offers on the VisorPhone and the GameFace -- which adds joystick functionality to a Visor. Industry watchers are predicting that Handspring is poised to release details of a new...
[August 21, 2001, 11:58]
InstantEmail
Downloads Use IR, approved cable to a digital phone or simply HotSync.Note: Using such equipment as the Kyocera Smartphone QCP 6035, Nokia 8290, VisorPhone, Palm V modem, or other IR enabled digital phones and digital phone services such as Cingular...
[January 9, 2002, 0:11]
Roundup: Palm Shifts Focus
News Wireless data trials include free Visorphone Palm has made a significant step into the corporate market with the acquisition of Extended Systems. But at the same time it faces criticism over its hardware platform, which remains conservative...
[March 9, 2001, 7:41]
