bblue
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After weeks of griping / searching / etc. etc. I now have a Visor Deluxe. Yes, it's that "rare" ICE Color (actually, Staples didn't have any directly in stock, so it was shipped from a long way away!) and it looks really nice!
Attached is a picture like I promised, because I know you ALL are just "green" (no pun intended for you Green VDX owners) with envy!
My initial thoughts were positive! Although at first I thought they had shipped me a green one because of the memory board color, the case didn't have any flex in it, and the plastic seemed of a better texture than my IIIxe.It does feel more fragile though.
I love the leather slip-case, it feels nice and looks nice too! I wish my IIIxe came with one!
The Snap cover is garbage. I use it to protect my screen, but it's downright useless, clunky, and requires two hands. The Flip cover is light-years ahead, and there is simply NO contest.
The box the VDX came in looked ugly. In fact, my friend thought they had shipped me a Graphite VDX because that's the only picture on the front of the box. The package designers should get fired, although I complement them on fitting so much into such a small box, when compared to the pretty blue & silver box my IIIxe came in.
The OS needs to be upgradeable.
The Microphone is Vaporware. I knew this, but I want to see someone make a program that uses it without a springboard, and then we can upload the sound files onto the computer!
The VDX creams my IIIxe in Speed comparos. Well over twice as fast with AfterBurner on. (ok, so it's a little unfair, but it still was faster.) It HAULS with Afterburner, in fact, I don't regret not upgrading to a Visor Platinum, because currently, my VDX is faster! (providing the Visor platinum doesn't have Afterburner...)
Infrared location is decent, but I often forget which side it's on.... it'll soon dawn on me. (Left side)
The backlight's too weak to be the inverted kind. WAY too weak.
I've heard quite a bit of griping about the lack of 16 grayscale support. The only App I've noticed that is suffering is AvantGo, which I don't use for graphic viewing.
Fireviewer, Ziogolf, they all had no trouble with full-grayscale images. Tealmovie worked pretty well too, although I saw more lines in my screen than I would like to see.
It's either the OS, or it's the Memory, but my Handspring seems more crash-prone. Not excessively to the point where I would return it, but it seems to stumble. It HATES forced resets.
The stylus belongs in a fine-art museum. It looks cool, it's funcional, although not as sharp as I think it should be, it's practically perfect.
Palm did a better job hiding the huge figure of the IIIxe. There's hardly any difference between the two size wise when compared, but the Handspring seems chunky in some dimensions compared to the Palm.
USB syncing is great! And the chunky cradle matches my iMac perfectly! I like how the cradle holds the VDX in place, although that damn snap-cover gets in the way, so I cannot leave it on the cradle like I can my IIIxe.
Springboard modules are HUGE! I wasn't expecting them to be teeny, but now that I think about it, the size of some of these modules must be horrific, especially the MiniJam, which has to be thicker than my RIO 500!!!
Love the clickyness of the buttons. Although, they seem smaller than the do in the pictures and from my Memory, and even compared to my Palm, even though they are the same size.
Handspring even gave me some window stickers!
One final gripe: It's not made in this continent like my VII series (in America) and my IIIxe (Canada, America, Mexico.) If Handspring is getting such cheap labor, their Margins must be quite high, since they don't include any Flash Memory. I think $160.00 is what they should cost, so that's what I paid! :-D
I like it very much! And I am now one of you all.
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05-04-2001 03:01 AM
) In regards to MP3 players, the SoundsGood module is smaller than the MJ, and most likely smaller than your Rio.
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