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Originally posted by Burns


As for these rumors about all these new visors, I've only got a thousand words to say:

http://www.geocities.com/cloudfire/images/coloredge1s.jpg
[fake picture]
or cut and paste this link: www.geocities.com/cloudfire/images/coloredge1s.jpg


- Burns

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Paint Shop Pro actually. It was a just for fun thing. Anyway, I don't know why anyone would have trouble finding the pic. The one without the s on the end is the larger pic. I wish geocities would stop the madness and just allow hotlinks.

- Burns

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RE: Overclocking

Still, with all this information, I still have to think that if Handspring could reliably OC the Dragonball chips, they would have done it. Even, say, only a 3% failure rate or something is still a bad idea. From an enginnering standpoint, any overclocking over what Motorola declares safe (16/33mHZ), would stress the chip. It may work, but it may shorten it's life. I don't really know for sure, OC'ing involves luck.

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I don't think that Handspring needs to overclock anything. Motorola makes a faster Dragonball chip. If anything they under clock this chip for longer battery life. 66mhz baby!

From Motorola's site:
The MC68SZ328 (DragonBall Super VZ) microprocessor, the fourth generation of the 68K-based DragonBall family of products, is designed to save system designers time, power, and cost. Requiring less board space, it allows for reduced pin count and fewer programming steps when designing products. The major differences between previous versions of DragonBall processors and the new Super VZ are an improvement in system speed, TFT color LCD support, an A/D converter (with touch panel control), an MMC/SD host controller, a DMA controller, embedded SRAM, a USB device controller, and an I2C interface.

http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sp...5#documentation

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Conspiracy

It's Monday afternoon, what happened to the Staples guys who were going to get some proof of the original post?

Do you think they may have been....silenced?

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Originally posted by olendorf

From Motorola's site:
The MC68SZ328 (DragonBall Super VZ) microprocessor, the fourth generation of the 68K-based DragonBall family of products, is designed to save system designers time, power, and cost. Requiring less board space, it allows for reduced pin count and fewer programming steps when designing products. The major differences between previous versions of DragonBall processors and the new Super VZ are an improvement in system speed, TFT color LCD support, an A/D converter (with touch panel control), an MMC/SD host controller, a DMA controller, embedded SRAM, a USB device controller, and an I2C interface.

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hmmmm, does A/D converter mean it will convert dc power to ac power or visaversa? does that mean u can plug in an externall power supply? i wonder if there will be a better speaker?

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Originally posted by robert sibell
hmmmm, does A/D converter mean it will convert dc power to ac power or visaversa? does that mean u can plug in an externall power supply? i wonder if there will be a better speaker?

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a/d = analog to digital

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Looks like PDABuzz picked up on these rumors.

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heh, i just read the whole topic, (sigh)

so, where's my updated information

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Looks like The Register picked up on the PDA Buzz stuff about "Ace" and "Columbia".

Here's the link:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/20996.html

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WOW! Check out those price cuts:

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The Platinum is due for a price cut at the end of this week, rumour suggests, as is the Visor Edge. The Platinum will fall from $249 to $199, the Edge from $399 to $299, both in 19 August.

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Neo and Pro?

According to PDABuzz.com board about the Handspring PDA rumor. The new Visors will be called the Neo and Pro. Now those are names I can see Handspring using for their PDA.

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THANK GOD! With names like "Ace" and "Columbia", I was afraid Hawkins had been hanging around Robert Downey jr., if you catch my meaning.

The new names actually sound rather sexy.

Can't wait to see what they look like.

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Well MSNBC has picked up on the HandSpring rumor hipe:

"Rumors also indicate that Handspring, the largest licensee of the Palm operating system, is also preparing new handhelds and is planning to drop prices on its Visor Platinum and Visor Edge."

http://www.msnbc.com/news/613808.asp?0dm=C11LT

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While I am drooling at the prospect of a new HS with 45 mhz and 16 megs, and will order one the first day they are available, I am getting a queasy feeling that we are all getting goobed. It sounds too good to be true. Is all this hype still based on postings on this site and other PDA sites by a couple of guys who claim to work for Staples? That seemed to be the source of the article in the Register and the MSNBC article is only citing rumors. I don't mean to impugn anyone's integrity, especially someone who (perhaps at some risk to his job) is just trying to keep his fellow Visor owners informed, but that's a pretty thin source. I'm a cynic, I admit it, I would be a better person and live longer and happier if I wasn't. I hope that subsequent events prove that my suspicions are wrong.

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IT'S TRUE

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Originally posted by MHCohn
It's Monday afternoon, what happened to the Staples guys who were going to get some proof of the original post?

Do you think they may have been....silenced?

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No, I'm still alive. It just took some time to find attachment "D" which was buried under my GM's desk. And my findings are: Ace and Columbia are true PLUS the Dx will also drop to $169 AND info on a new crappy Palm unit. This has convinced me to sell my edge and buy a VPL, so that I can finally have a keyboard!


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Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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both VisorNeo.com and VisorPro.com are regestered domains. They appeared to have been registered last week, before anyone heard of this. They are registered to a very fake sounding name Alex Shwartz, who lives on 1000 market street in San Fransisco. It's not often that companies regieter domains under aliases.. Both Ace and Columbia are unregestered..

And here are the rest of the possible names.
Assuming that AlexSchwartz is a Handspring Alabi, lookign at how all his domains are www.visor____.com and that no offence, that sounds liek a tatic they would use, after people finding about edge, twist, and snap names..

Here they are.
The Visor Pro (16 mb) The Visor Neo (deluxe replacenmt) the Visor Air (wireless?) The Visor Flip (who knows) The Visor XL, and last of all the Visor Ginger. Wow. What a life we have to come. All of those domains were created August 6th 2001. OOO I CAN'T WAIT!

Ps - the phone number for Alex Shwartz is 555-1212, furtheur confirming my suspcians it's a fake.

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