Reminiscing: Handspiring Visor Homepage
August 14, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Special Features
Today I thought I’d take a look at the good ‘ol days when the Visor Handspring revolutionized the PDA industry. Here’s a website screenshot from roughly 2001, with the “Ice” blue mid range Visor deluxe sitting with an ice pack. Back then, 8MB of memory and a monochrome screen would set you back 150USD. Today, that usually gets you a mid range phone.
Handspring was particularly adamant in selling accessories and one-upped Palm by adding a more colorful plethora of choices such as stylus tips and cases.
And yeah, the springboard modules. Those were crazy back in the day. Imagine if every app you wanted to install was housed inside a big ass memory card. That was big back then. The Nokia N-Gage followed thus route as well and later on fizzled out the concept to OTA downloads, turning N-Gage into software, from its hardware roots. For Handspring, well, they were less lucky — they got reacquired by Palm.
Ah Handspring, those were the days.
[image c/o archive.org]
oh yeah, so so familiar.
i remember the days when i even plug a GSM module in it, protruding at the back with an antenna out of the module.
and Visor Prism has been once the brightest display among all Palam OD PDA’s. it caught everyone’s atgtention when i openned it up to receive a txt inside the theater, glowing my very presence. good thing, the power button is just on the side and i can easily turn it off.