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 …read more
iPhone 3.0: Channeling Handspring
March 21, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Phones, Phones, Phones
When Apple announced iPhone 3.0 and its ability to integrate almost any accessory into the dock (they showed off a mock photo of a digital blood pressure accessory), I immediately remembered the days of the Handspring Visor and the springboard modules that, though unsuccessful, paved the way for portable gadget features we have today — phones, cameras, the Internet, MP3 players — all in one Personal Digital Assistant. Handspring was a breakaway faction from Palm back in the day. They concentrated in developing springboard accessories for their line of Visor PDA’s running the Palm OS. I remember having the 56kbps …read more
