Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Las Pinas, Manila, Philippines
Posts: 35

Handspring should do well to address
what most Palm users carp about their devices,namely the lousy display.
Could anybody confirm how Visor has improved
on this?

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: San Diego, CA USA
Posts: 22

Just spoke with a sales rep during my purchase and she told me that the display is the same as the one in the Palm V. No improvement.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Las Pinas, Manila, Philippines
Posts: 35

Oh well,, at least the display
is not as bad as that of the Palm III...

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Burlington, VT, USA
Posts: 127

Of course, the Palm V display is pretty darned nice, for monochrome. It does 16 shades of grey and is MUCH sharper than the original Pilot LCD. I upgraded to a Palm IIIx just for the screen.

I've used a Compaq Aero WinCE handheld with a color screen. It had its niceties (cool to be able to pop in the memory card from my digital camera and {slowly} view JPGs), but the color wasn't worth the added weight and bulk and the short battery life.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location:
Posts: 3

I just got a Palm IIIx and the screen quality had a lot to do with my decision. Color would be nice but what I'd hate is short battery life. I know folks with Color CE devices really fly through batteries. Maybe Color with LIon batteries would be nice but I don't think I could afford one...

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Berkeley, Ca
Posts: 1

I am a memeber of the San Francisco Palm User Group, and we just had our meeting on Thurs. Handspring sent us an actual unit to drool on,...er I mean over. The screen is the same as the Palm V, which is actualy rather nice. For a while there was a large discussion on the texture of the screen vs. the Palm V, but it was later determined to be the stylus, not the screen itself.

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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney Australia
Posts: 1883

synch,
You have actually seen (and touched) a visor?? COOL! What are you first impressions.

Please create a review at http://206.245.177.32/Reviews/cgi-bin/indexgen.cgi

Tell us more...what model did they send you??