Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Redwood City CA
Posts: 472

Personally, I'd rather have improved resolution over color.

Registered: Oct 2000
Location:
Posts: 3

I doubt I will purchase it.

If it is like the Palm3C, then the battery life will be terrible. Until the color, resolution, battery life, and speed improve $499 is too much money.

Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Posts: 57

I would never buy another Handspring, even if it is color. Give me a Palm Vx unit that is made by a solid, well established company. At least Palm devices live up to what it is marketed for.

Handspring has more issues it needs to address before a color unit comes out. ie. Springboard vaporware

Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 48

Hopfeully VisorCentral can get their hands on an early Visor Prism and let us know what the screen really looks like . . . .

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: I'm not sure, but I see lots of lights everywhere.
Posts: 1287

Shrinky dinky!

Place your bets now. I'm betting that Handspring has shrunk the screen on the Prism, ala Palm M100 and Sony Clie.

We'll see.

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Registered: May 2000
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Posts: 163

No Colour Visor For This Boy

Don't have the dinero, and would rather invest in phone springboard once it's affordable.

Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Moved to Clie Land
Posts: 331

One or the other...

I'll probably go with the Platinum, but will judge when I can see both side by side. There are other factors to consider.
I want ALL the accessories I've already purchased to work as well.

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on one of the zdnet pages about the prismit says there that the prism will be 16 bit and support 65,536 colors. is there any truth to this? if it really does that im buying it

Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Columbia, MO
Posts: 125

As neat as color would be, i don't see myself going for it. But those Quicksheet charts & graphs sure would look cool!!

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Coppell, Texas
Posts: 64

I think that the color visor will be cool but, I don't think that I will upgrade for the $$$ that they are asking. If it has more memory and better color than the IIIc then I may look in the future.

Registered: Sep 2000
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no way will i be gettin it. way too much, for so little else besides color.

on the other hand, the platinum looks nice.


the one feature i really want though, is FLASH RAM. it is so much better, with being able to upgrade the os.

Registered: Feb 2000
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Posts: 1571

Gettin Color

I am going to get the color unit as soon as it is out. This greenish color screen go to.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 195

Even though my six-year-old told me he "knows" I'll want a color Visor (so he can then have mine!) I can't see it until it's WELL worth the cost. I'll read the reviews, wait for the price to come down, and when my IVX bites the dust, I'll think about it seriously. Until then - nope.

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Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Baltimore MD, USA
Posts: 717

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Originally posted by WSGreer
on one of the zdnet pages about the prismit says there that the prism will be 16 bit and support 65,536 colors. is there any truth to this?

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Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Cape Elizabeth, ME USA
Posts: 73

I'm anxiously awaiting the Prism, and intend to get the first one. While most respondents to this forum want to play,
the Handspring Visor Deluxe is an essential tool for managing patients in medical practice.

Price is irrelevant. It's still close to toy level pricing, compared to what a health care person spends to be able to prepare to treat your illness competently.

One needs to be able to read the screen in darkened patients' rooms, and the black type on bright white background will increase readability, like my boss's Palm IIIc.

The HSV is the best choice for practice because of the expandable memory. I'm maxed at 24MB with reference texts and hundreds of apps, programs, and databases, and am looking for more memory capacity. If anyone knows of a way to add more memory, I'd sure like to hear about it!

HSV rather than TRGPro because of ability to take patient's pictures for the chart, Stowaway to type the chart with PatientKeeper, ClipHack, and SuperPad, and beaming to a HP 340C Portable Printer with IR adapter using PalmPrint. Patient education handouts are instantly provided during the office visit.

While I don't need to get into a flame war, I'd sure like to point out that the readers of this forum need to hear what these babies can do, rather than whining about what they can't do (yet). It gets better every day.

Bruce, The PDA P.A.

[Edited by BHansen on 10-06-2000 at 07:42 PM]

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Redwood City CA
Posts: 472

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Bruce, The PDA P.A.

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Registered: May 2000
Location: Highland Mills, NY
Posts: 65

Are you referring to a bar code scanner? If so there are many potential uses for it in medical practice.

You can use them to scan a pt's chart then write your note and resync to a main central database. It can also reduce medication errors. If I was to scan a pt's chart, I can see what meds have been and have not been given. There's a whole bunch of medical applications that are waiting to be developed. So far I have mostly seen these for Pock Pc. I would like to start seeing it done for the Palm OS

Marc Chasin, MD

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Redwood City CA
Posts: 472

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Originally posted by fmlydoc
Are you referring to a bar code scanner? If so there are many potential uses for it in medical practice.

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Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Cape Elizabeth, ME USA
Posts: 73

Sensors

Not quite medical application yet,
but I'd bet that something's going to come along soon that gathers patient data like Temperature, Pulse, and O2 Saturation.

Thanks for the link, John.

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Here
Posts: 213

16 bit and 64 K colors sounds sweet, but still on a 160 x 160 screen? Don't know what that looks like. I am inclined to go for the color but need to see the rest of the specs and features. I hope the unit will take more memory without consuming the springboard slot !!!

Visors's rule !!!