Handspring Visor Prism Handheld

Pros: Easy to carry, convenient for small amounts of information entry.
Cons: Is heavy and a little bulky once you put it in a case

I decided back in March 2004 that I wanted to start using a PDA. Being of the old days of the planner/organizer, I thought this would really help to organize my personal life with doctor appointments etc. and professional life with meetings, projects ...

Pros: Colors are vivid. Battery life is great.
Cons: A bit bulkier than its B&W siblings.

I purchased my Prism refurbished from E-Bay as I was upgrading from my B&W Visor to the color Prism. I have an 8mb memory card installed on the unit as well. I couldn't live without the Prism. The colors on it are very rich and with the memory modu ...

Pros: color screen, sensitive graffiti pad easier to write on, rechargeable
Cons: near impossible to read in sunlight, intermittent HotSync problems

This is one of the few high-tech gadgets I own that, after originally appealing to me as a fun toy, has proven to be indispensable and gets used every day. I really do not know how I ever got by without it!

Before my wonderful boyfriend...

Pros: Cheap way to get color, totally compatible with Palm OS
Cons: Big and HEAVY

We bought the factory refurbished Handspring Prism as an upgrade to my wife's Palm III (2MB) which she had outgrown. She insisted on color, even though color meant paying 2x the price on a similar powered black and white model. The Prism was a...

Pros: bright colors, lots of applications, fast compared to other Palm devices.
Cons: bulky, screen is pixellated, springboard modules expensive

I got my Prism at Costco for $199 which is why I'm keeping it. Otherwise I would just save up for a Pocket PC. It seems that Palm devices are quickly becoming obsolete. This Prism however is nice. The colors are wonderful. Handspring should have made the...

Pros: Expandability, and brilliant color display as well as updated applications
Cons: Display not daylight friendly

A gem of an assistant
It took some time for me to jump on the PDA bandwagon. After all, I had a laptop pretty much constantly with me, what would I need a less capable “toy” for? My workplace issued Handspring Deluxe in an attempt to make...

Pros: Beautiful, expandable, functional
Cons: bulky, 8MB RAM is too little

I just upgraded from a Visor Platinum by getting a refurbished model on eBay. It's just as fast except in drawing color text (hardly noticeable), and even seems to hotsync more reliably that the Platinum. I'v heard some criticism of the screen, such as...

Pros: Color, Expandability
Cons: Price, Limited Memory

If you're looking for a color Palm OS PDA, you don't have much of a selection. Your choices include a Palm IIIc, a Sony Clie, or, in my case, a Handspring Visor Prism.
The Prism's design is slightly bulky, but is overall slim enough to fit in a...

Pros: Vibrant Color Screen
Cons: Heavy, can't see screen in sunlight, thicker than most palm models

I owned a handspring visor deluxe for a good 5 months. As a personal trainer, my PDA was my best friend. The beauty about PDAs, lies in the fact that everything is electronically arranged neatly. I used to schedule appointments the old fashioned way,...

Pros: Color, Re-Chargeable, Linux Compatible.
Cons: Some USB Support missing from Linux Programs, Screen Outdoors.

It has been a few months now, and I have been using my Handspring Prism for just about everything, from organizing my personal life to playing great freeware games I find at Freeware Palm, but my most mission critical use is at the office, where it...

Pros: Love the color and speed and the larger 8mb hard drive
Cons: BAD BATTERY LIFE! drains real fast. Thank God it recharges

I had the original visor which can't hold a candle to the prism. Love the Color. Pictures look great. However I think the 8mb should have been 16. I read a review and it said that handspring said the battery life under normal use should be 2 weeks....

Pros: Fast, decent memory, good operating system, easy to use, color
Cons: A bit pricey, boxy styling

The first color handheld developed by Handspring is, in my opinion, a huge success. The machine is fast and responsive, and the colors are vibrant. It has decent memory (8 megs); I personally have over 50 programs on mine taking up only about half...

Pros: Color Screen, Springboard Slot, USB Hot Sync
Cons: Size, Internal Battery, Color Screen in Sunlight

I purchased my Prism from Ebay from $310 which at the time was a really good price. The price has dropped considerably since then and can be found for just over $300.

I am not a real busy guy that needs to keep all my appointments somewhere...

Pros: Over 65,000 Colors, Expandability, Speed
Cons: Screen in Daylight, Weight

When it came time for me to replace my ever-aging PalmPilot of three years, I was bound and determined to go color. I was also determined to purchase a product, with some research of course, that was not within the Palm family. This was not because I'd...

Pros: Palm OS, bright color, great in all light except direct bright sunlight, expandable.
Cons: expensive, bulky compared to other PDA's.

The Visor Prism is my first PDA. I did a lot of research, and figured I would buy a Palm. But when I looked at the Palms, they did not seem anywhere near as good. I looked at the Palm 500 and 505. The 505 screen was hard to read and very poor color,...