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HandCam In Stock!

Just placed my order for a Handcam at Computers4sure.com came out to 90 bux and a couple of cents. Cant wait till it gets here. I'll fill you all in on the details when it arrives.

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buy.com has it for $79.95.

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Originally posted by hloakes
buy.com has it for $79.95.

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is it in stock though?

Just checked...seems to be instock up to the put in basket screen. Oh well, i dont want to take the chance and cancel my order. Been waiting patiently for a while now.

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When you go to the basket, it now says "Usually Shipp in 24-48 hours".

Got to talk to my wife. I may have found my Christmas present.

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Good luck

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I don't know, I havn't checked, I ordered it on 11-24 and havn't thought much of it since then. I figured Targus said mid-december and it would ship mid-january!

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Computers4sure sent me an instock e-mail notification so i jumps on their site asap....The thing is i checked the targus site and founf nothing on the handcam. Wondering if it is a mistake. Hope not.

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Computers4sure sent me an instock e-mail notification so i jumps on their site asap....The thing is i checked the targus site and founf nothing on the handcam. Wondering if it is a mistake. Hope not.

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Originally posted by dampeoples


Maybe if it's in stock - our UPS men can race!

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Darn, they just e-mailed me and said the item was out of stock. Just have to wait a little bit longer.

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Just thought I'd let you all know. I received this email today from buy.com:

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Hello Richard,


Just wanted to let you know that the following items from your
order #XXXXXXXX have shipped and are on the way to your door:

item sku 10315019 qty :1 HANDCAM SPRINGBOARD MODULE FOR HANDSPRING VISOR
*This item shipped on 12/20/2001
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I ordered it back in late November when it was 'backordered', not really expecting it to come in before Christmas, but secretly hoping.

Hopefully this means I should have it shortly. In any case, it would seem that at least some stores have them in now.

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Sweet, thanks for the info...Once i get my confirmation about my canceled order i'll check buy.com out.

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A cam in hand....

Not only in-stock... In hand!! I got my HandCam yesterday from Buy.Com. Fun toy! It's not going to give professional cameras a run for their money, but I do like it.

It also fit really well with the 'Family' gift that we sent to our computer-owning family members. Office Max has IBM webcams for $19 a piece a few weeks ago. Sure, they were only 320 x 240, but for starters and for family VC, they were good enough. So, now there are 10 new people peeping on the web.

One of the things I really like about the cam is the Laptop clip. It snaps onto the lid of my Tecra and works well. Since I tend to be on the road more then at home, so it's a nice addition to my road warrior toolkit. Besides, I wanted a webcam and I wanted a camera for my Prism. I got both for the price of one!

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Thanks...computers4sure hasn't confirmed my cancelation yet, so i dont want 2 handcams showing up at my house.

Does the handcam store pictures seperatly so you cna pick and choose which to save on a memplug?

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Thanks...computers4sure hasn't confirmed my cancelation yet, so i dont want 2 handcams showing up at my house.

Does the handcam store pictures seperatly so you cna pick and choose which to save on a memplug?

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pretty good list of features/comparison

http://home.attbi.com/~maxwell.house/handcam.htm

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Some dark clouds with that silver lining

Okay, so I've had a coupla days to play with this HandCam. Overall, I do sorta like it. But I've ran into a few snags.

--It's crashed my Prism. Whenver I do a soft reset, I get an "Error in DataManager.c line blah blah blah" and my Prism hangs. Every time I reset, it does this. A warm reset solves it, so it's a system file thingie, and a hard reset fixes this completely (although, not the ultimate solution).

I DO have hacks installed, so I assume it was a conflict with some of these, but my Prism did work fine before my HandCam was ever inserted, and now, even with all hacks uninstalled and deleted, I STILL get this error. I'm doing a "seek and destroy" on any potentially offending files on my Prism now, hoping to find the one that's causing the problem upon "boot".

--The manual states that it takes roughly around 150K for a full sized JPG and a smaller amount for a Palm sized image. Yet with 2MB free internally (and apparently externally on the HandCam) I cannot take a full sized JPG. It gives me a "Not enough memory for JPG2" error. I can take Palm sized images, just not big ones. After a hard reset, it works fine, but that's with 7.5MB free. Also Hack related? Perhaps, still looking into this.

--When I do get the above error, the pictures goes all wiggy. What's "wiggy" you say? Well, it . . . shifts. It will "wrap" to the right and top. In other words, I'll see the far right side of the image on the left side of my screen and the top of the image on the bottom. Images taken like this will show up like this when saved. Dunno why this happens. Internal software problems? Funky sensor issues? I dunno. It's easily fixed (just switch to the video section and back to the still section and it's resolved), but still a pain to put up with.

--The lens swivel is a really nice feature, but I would have preferred it to be the other way around (personal opinion here). Instead of having the lens swivel all the way around to face me, I would have like it to face 180 degrees AWAY from me, that way one could use it similarly to a PalmPix camera. As it is, if you want to take a picture of what's in front of you, you have to treat it as an Eyemodule 2 and point the top of your Visor in that direction.

I'm not sure if these issues are inherent in all the HandCams, or if it's just my funky setup that's causing some of them. When this things works, I like it. But getting it to work with my configuration seems to be a problem.

For further reference, here are the hacks I have installed:

X-Master: Afterburner 3.1, ClockPop, MiddleCaps, SnapCalc.
TrapWeaver: BackdropGC beta 2.0

I'm thinking maybe Afterburner or Backdrop may be the offending hacks ('specially since Backdrop GC 2.0 is still beta), but I'm having a Hell of a time getting my Prism to work again correctly without resulting to a Hard Reset.

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When I've run into the Error in DataManager.c message, it's been AIM that's to blame for the error. I simply remove it and things start to work again. I have a visorphone normally in the springboard slot and I seem to get the error when an online session isn't closed properly.

The other culprit had been Wordsmith, but that hasn't been a problem with the new version.

I've been using my cam for the past week or so. Truthfully, I'm using it more as a webcam then I am as a palmcam. It works great and the size is something everyone has commened on.

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Thanks for all the input guys, still waiting for the official vc.com review on it b4 i make my final decision. So far it seems promising.

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