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Re: Names changed

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Originally posted by Edd
I guess they went and change the names on us but it's official folks.

SKU 471242 Visor Neo Red $199.99
SKU 471240 Visor Neo Blue $199.99
SKU 471241 Visor Neo Smoke $199.99
SKU 471239 Visor Pro Silver 16MB $299.99

All these are in the system already.

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so, now it is official, i guess i should camp out in front of staples just so i don't miss out. I don't want them to all sell out before i have a chance to get one. Thats what happened on Monday right?

Seriously, Edd is the one who started the rumors. Lets just keep our pants on until HANDSPRING makes an announcement. If we base everything on what one Staples employee(and how do we know he is an employee) says, we are going to be disappointed.

And if an announcement is made soon, I'll just put my tail between my legs and craw under a rock in shame, but for now, I'm not going to jump on the Neo/Pro bandwagon.

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i hope best buy will have them too, because their arent to many places dedicated to handspring around me.


and for the integrated wireless technology, i remember donna saying that, that new handheld will be out about january or febuary. from a fiscal year report that i downloaded form another website(it was a news item on visorcentral) and was about an hour long. and she talked about their stragedies and how they survived their down fall. (it was a stock market website)

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Re: Re: Names changed

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Originally posted by chuckster


Seriously, Edd is the one who started the rumors. Lets just keep our pants on until HANDSPRING makes an announcement. If we base everything on what one Staples employee(and how do we know he is an employee) says, we are going to be disappointed.

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Just walk into any Staples store and ask one of the sales associate to check these SKUs for you. Nobody (stores) would have it now but you should be able to get it as soon as Handspring announce it. Remember the Edge, same thing here. It would showed up in the system first. Two weeks later, they announced it. Now, the release dates for these new Visors could even be longer (or shorter) than when the Edge was released.

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and for the integrated wireless technology, i remember donna saying that, that new handheld will be out about january or febuary.

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Holey Mother of Pearl!

This thread just broke 20,000 (yes twenty THOUSHAND) views. Either there's a bug in the groups software, or people are REALLY itching for new visors.


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Re: Names changed

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Originally posted by Edd
I guess they went and change the names on us but it's official folks.

SKU 471242 Visor Neo Red $199.99
SKU 471240 Visor Neo Blue $199.99
SKU 471241 Visor Neo Smoke $199.99
SKU 471239 Visor Pro Silver 16MB $299.99

All these are in the system already.

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Originally posted by kalahari
I want to hear of a model that will be $500 or higher

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$500?? Are you insane. Don't ASK them to price it that high! They'll do it. Seriously, pretty soon you ought to be able to buy a laptop for not much more than that with some good capabilities .

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isnt there a word 'inflamtion'? . that has to do with how prices will rise but income will also grow in years. for example, 70 years ago everything was very, very cheap, but people made a lot less money

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edd is right

well, for what it is worth, the sku 471242 is correct. You can go onto staples.com, do a search for something that isn't there and you will have the option to "talk" with a rep. I asked her about the availability of the sku in question. she tells me they are not available in my area. I confirmed that the SKU I had given her were for the visor neo red

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Inflation

Robert, Yes, inflation has an effect on prices.. but when it comes to computers, The law of the land is MOORE'S LAW! (basicly computers double in speed/memory every 2 years). Hence, an ultra high end pc in 81 (the Original PC) was $5000, and an ultra high end PC today (say, a top of the line laptop with best of everything options) is STILL $5000. Yet in the same 20 years, the prices of real estate have skyrockted, etc etc.

Ok, to get back on topic... I'm pretty convinced that the visor neo is real, and on it's way. The only question will be when. I'm guessing a few weeks, but hopeing for monday... However, my gut feeling is that these two are just going to be stopgap units to "get somthing new out there" while they work on the next big thing (which I hope is hi-res/color).

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Salt in Wounds

Perhaps I'm mistaken...however some days before all this flubbiss about the new Visors release, I'd have sworn that in one of those spiffy little banner ads here on VC I saw what looked to be a Visor Dlx/PLT form factor yet in a nifty red color akin to the Edge.

I'm not trying to incite something here...just curious if someone else noticed it? If so, perhaps a demo/prototype that ended up in a jpg or maybe just some marketing hack having fun with Photoshop.

or maybe just an overactive imagination

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if any of you are affilites for handspring like me you already recieved new banner ads for their new lower prices. but i wonder if we will recieve new html codes for the, 'yet to come' devices before they actually come.

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Alan Grahm (Mr VisorAdventure Knows Somthing! :)

Hey, anyone notice that Alan has been signing all his road reports off with "somthing's happening" over the last couple of days... and today he is in LAS VEGAS!... hmm, could this be a clever ruse from handspring to release their new units in 'vegas? Alan Grahm, Alex Schwartz... Hmmm....


(just had to stir the pot)

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Re: No Wireless

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Originally posted by jonecool
There must be more than one product release planned this year. Donna indicated an integrated wireless device would be released

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Re: Re: No Wireless

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Originally posted by knoppi
think you�re right. i got an email on saturday, definitely not for me. but from a well known pr-company, working for handspring. i work as an author for palm related themes, and i�m in their press index ... a mistake?! in this very popularly email THREE!!! new visor are discussed for fall. and ONE of these is some kind of telecommunication unit ... perhaps not a "conventional" pda??? something like a smartphone (nokia 9210)??

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Post the whole email please.

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i know this would happen ...

but i can�t post this email. i know the guy who sent this email, and i think there would be a lot of trouble, somebody else of this company read this email here. i�m not a poser, believe me. and this email is not in english.

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My god, my brain (specifically, the rumorbellum) is going haywire.

Knoppi, if you can't publish the text of the e-mail (which is understandable), can you give more details about the three models that are discussed? Even in general terms (VDX replacement? Prism replacement? ...)

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it seems, handspring first announce two new models, one replacing the vdx and another one placed between the edge and the prism. thats what we all know (or believe to know). the third model will be announced perhaps a few weeks later but even in fall ... there is only a note about the third model. something like "... we have to discuss the announcement of the telecommunication unit ..."

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the third model will be announced perhaps a few weeks later but even in fall

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