Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Atlantic Rim
Posts: 570

I've noticed innumerable posts on this and other Handspring boards complaining about the fragility of the VDX case. My unit (Ice) once took a three foot fall from my hands onto a tile bathroom floor. No cracks, no splits, no nothing. This afternoon I was standing in front of my TV, fiddling with the controls on my VDX for my OmniRemote module and the damn thing tumbled out of my hands again...subsequently dropping a good four feet directly onto a hardwood floor. Again, suffering no noticable damage.

Perhaps I need to be more careful. Perhaps my subconscious is plotting to get a new Visor Edge. While I am not suggesting that these things are indestructable, I did want a potential buyer to see that at least one VDX owner has knocked his unit about pretty good and not ended up with a busted case or screen.

Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 165

A former coworker of mine has a blue VDX... one day, a group of us went out into the marble-floored hallway on our way to a meeting in a different office suite. Naturally, he and I both brought our Visors with us, ostensibly for taking notes (in reality, for playing Tetris. ) Well, his was in its slip case, and he was holding it by the sides... while talking with somebody else he made an extravagant gesticulation with the hand holding the Visor.

With nothing holding the Visor in at the top, it slipped out of its case and made a graceful arc a good 15 feet down the hallway. I swear, I saw it go in slow motion... I think I heard a dog barking in the distance, too. It landed perfectly flat, screen up. Fearing the worst, he went over and picked it up. The screen was a garbled mess, but just for chuckles he tried a soft reset. Amazingly, the Palm Computing logo appeared, and his Visor started up and as far as I know, it's still working fine. Of course, if it hadn't landed flat I think that probably would have been the end of that particular VDX.

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