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Visorphone or Treo

Other than size and novelty of newness, what does the Treo have that the visorphone doesn't?

With the price of the visorphone what it is vs. Treo, and the fact that if I went Treo, I'd have an extra PDA, I'm tempted to go visorphone.

Only one thing that I can see being an advantage is that Treo will support GPRS when the patch comes out.

Cheers

While I don't have a Treo, per se, I think your decision may be clarified by considering what you really want.

If you: 1) want sleek and portable, 2) want 16-Mb standard, 3) want future high-speed access via GPRS, 4) can live without Springboard slot and accessories, 5) won't have any regrets of off-loading previous PDA, 6) want the latest and greatest, 7) consolidation of 3 devices,

...then go Treo all the way.

OTOH, if you: 1) can live with your current Visor model because it's reliable and works, 2) can get-over your friends' taunting you about the brick on your belt, 3) have a lot of Springboard modules that you can't part with, 4) don't mind talking into a phone which looks like a GameBoy, 5) think it's too expensive to shell out $500+,

...then go with a Visorphone+Visor combo.

I have the latter for following reasons: 1) it was cheap at $99, 2) reception is good to excellent in my location (93111), 3) can continue to use my other modules, 4) don't really care for GPRS since most of my surfing consists of PQA lookups and email. Short and to the point. If I have signal, then I can access the internet, albeit dialup. If I want high-speed access, I have my DSL at home and the T1 at work.

Depends on what you really want, not by what others want you to have or think you should have.

Just my USD 0.02.

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Virorphone or Treo

Thankyou.

I predict a cross border shopping trip to one of the stores sooner or later. 8)

I've already invested in a Magellan and Memplug and couldn't bare to lose those.

$99USD or $160 CDN for something as functional as that along with the quality of a phone running under GSM is too appealing.

I just checked on CompUSA and Best Buy's website and couldn't find visorphone there.

Anyone know what retailer carries the thing?

Handspring's site mentions that they won't ship visorphones to us cannucks. I guess they're likely not approved by the CRTC/FCC or whatever they call themselves.

Cheers