Registered: Jan 2000
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Prism upgrades to 16M are now available at www.palmpilotupgrade.com for $149.

Looks like it was recently updated, and I suppose this would probably void your warranty. I know that these are available overseas, but this guy is based in CA.

The price seems reasonable, although it's a little rich for my blood. I'll stick with 8M + 8M flash...

Brian

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: San Francisco, CA
Posts: 431

Brianp,

Yes, you're right, Tony updated his website today to reflect the 16MB Visor Prism info. I'm pretty sure I'm going to order it... Then I can have 16MB + 8MB flash (or maybe 16MB flash if I feel the need to buy that)

One correction to your post. Tony is in NJ and not CA.

Brian P (too)

Registered: Dec 2000
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How about the Platinum?

I wonder if he could upgrade a platinum? Having 16mb internally would be great.

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Fat's

Registered: Sep 1999
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I've already contacted Tony at palmpilotupgrade.com and he is working on the process. Hopefully he will soon be able to offer the service. No mention of price, but would expect it to be similar to the Prism upgrade.

Explorer1

Registered: Dec 2000
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Thanks Explorer!

Thanks for the info! Please keep us memory hungry users informed !

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Fat's

Registered: Nov 2000
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I have placed my order. Sure I have the 8 MB module, but with my Minstrel modem anchored to my Prism at all times. I will update when unit returns - I received comfrmation just now for a quick return.

Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Seattle, Washington
Posts: 293

If I want to upgrade my prism to 16mb
Will I loose my handspring warranty?

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Yes

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Originally posted by akur
If I want to upgrade my prism to 16mb
Will I loose my handspring warranty?

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Seattle, Washington
Posts: 293

that's what I'm afraid!
If something happen with my prism I cannot return it anymore!
Now I'm confused!

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quote:

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Originally posted by akur
that's what I'm afraid!
If something happen with my prism I cannot return it anymore!
Now I'm confused!

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this sounds tempting. has anybody done this yet?
how long has it been available?

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Aberdeen, SD
Posts: 2531

Correct me if I'm wrong, but even if you go with this upgrade and something goes wrong you're only out $85 for solo, deluxe, platinum and $100 for prism. Even if that is correct the replacement they send will only have the 8 mb standard, so you pissed the $149 down your leg. Just get the 16 flash module. That brings you up to 24mb total memory. You can keep only the essentials on the unit itself (hell you could probably get a solo) and keep everything else (aside from those apps that need to write directly to the memory, e.g. WordSmith) on the module. Then having the 16mb module in isn't as imperitive. If you're going to throw in a different module, you're probably going to be running the software on that module, so you won't need the software on your 16mb one. How about that Handspring? The next generation visors could have 128 bytes of memory (for the core apps) and you could just buy the memory you need. Why even have memory on the visor itself? It could be like those old computers that didn't have a hard drive. You just put in the floppy that has the program you want and turn it on, except it would be a lot more versatile than just software because of the design of the springboard. We could take the processor out and have another slot in the device to plug in whatever processor we could afford. And why have internal speakers when we could have another slot for the varying qualities of speaker we could afford to plug in? Come to think of it, why do we need a visor in the first place? I have a good memory so I don't need the eyemodule, I can play the dot game and hangman on a piece of paper I carry with me, I don't need mp3's because I could sing to myself. I can hear the slogan now, "Handspring, it's all in your mind." The visor solo would be for single people, the deluxe would be 4 people perpetually in a group, the platinum would be 4 yuppies discussing stock options, and the prism could be 4 schizophrenics (for the color).

It's been a day.

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Originally posted by dick-richardson
It's been a day.

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Registered: Oct 2000
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Originally posted by Matthew Nichols
...but thats okay because I can only afford the new Solo state of mind anyways...

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quote:

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Originally posted by akur
that's what I'm afraid!
If something happen with my prism I cannot return it anymore!
Now I'm confused!

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My Treo has more memory than I do.

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are you saying that the shipped you a new one first? then you swapped and sent it back?

Registered: Feb 2000
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They have done that twice for me.

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Max size of upgrade

The guy that is doing the upgrade tells me that the max size of the upgrade is 16 megs becasue that is all that the Visor can handle. I've now heard 3 things, 32, 16 & 2 Gb. What's the truth?

Registered: Feb 2001
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memory upgrade fort lee new jersey.

does anybody know his phone number? i cant find it on his web site...........

Registered: Aug 2000
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I went to the Motorola website and find that the DragonBall VZ support up to 32M of memory if you use 32M X 8 memory chip.

Here is the link:
http://e-www.motorola.com/brdata/PD...83XX/AN1847.pdf

It is on page 21 of 48.