HyPeR's Full Review: Handspring Visor Edge Handheld
NOTE: I have mostly rewritten this review because of differences in price mentioned to me in the comments ...
I have had the experience to play with many different PDA's here in my work environment between all the different coworkers. The Handspring Visor is targeted to be a direct competitor to the Palm IIIe. In fact, it is almost identical! Both have 2Mb of memory, same screen size, same operating system, etc., but the Visor costs $30 more ($179 vs $149) than the Palm IIIe, if you need the sync cradle (which everyone does).
There are only a few minor differences between them besides this. One is that some of the Visor's applications are 'upgraded'. The date book has a few more features built in, a more advanced calculator, etc ... Also, whether this was designed as a feature or not, it is slightly more 'drop' resistance. Palm's are notorious for cracking their screens if you drop them even the slightest bit (I've done it to mine twice now). However the Visor's case snaps together instead of screwing, and my friend has dropped his twice (from a couple feet), and upon hitting the ground the case flew open, which manages to absorb enough shock that his screen hasn't cracked.
The MAJOR difference is the addition of an expansion port, although I've yet to know anyone who owns a Visor to buy anything for the port - so it's not that big of a selling point right now.
Aesthetically, the differences are minor as well. The Palm has a flip cover, the Visor's comes off and reattaches to the back. The Visor's IR port is on the side, the palm's on the top. Also the Palm comes with a serial port cradle to sync to your computer, whereas the Visor has a USB connector cable instead.
In general, as long as the Visor costs $30 more than the Palm IIIe, there is really no reason to buy the Visor for the couple of extra features that it has. Or purchase the Palm M100, their newest model, which is also $149 and another IIIe clone, except it has a smaller screen, but contains Flash ROM, letting it's Operating System be upgraded (something that neither the IIIe or Visor can do!)
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