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Handspring Visor Neo (Smoke)
Manufacturer: Handspring ProductGroup: CE Binding: Electronics Product Features:
ASIN: B00005OCWO |
Amazon.com Product Description
Get the memory, versatility, and speed of a much more expensive handheld with the affordable Handspring Visor Neo. This striking, smoke-gray handheld comes with 8 MB of memory, allowing you plenty of space to store thousands of names, addresses, appointments, memos, to-do items, expense items, and e-mails. Plus, the Visor Neo runs with a fast 33 MHz Motorola Dragonball VZ processor--the same as in the Visor Edge.Expand the capabilities of your Visor Neo with the built-in expansion slot, which lets you turn your handheld into an MP3 player, pager, modem, and GPS receiver. Just slide an optional hardware or software Springboard module into the slot on the back, and your Visor Neo takes on a new function with no configuration or additional software required.
The Handspring Visor Neo runs the popular Palm operating system, so it is fully compatible with thousands of Palm OS applications. Also, Handspring has added features to the Palm OS, like an advanced datebook, calculator, world clock, and built-in floating-point math support. Enter memos and notes into your Visor Neo with the easy-to-use Graffiti handwriting software.
With the Visor Neo's speedy USB connection, synchronizing data with your desktop has never been easier. Just place your Visor Neo into the included USB cradle and exchange data with the touch of a button. The Visor Neo's infrared port lets you beam data to other handhelds, and it also has a built-in microphone for use with digital voice recorder modules.
The Handspring Visor Neo comes with a USB HotSync cradle, stylus, snap cover, desktop synchronization software for Windows and Mac, software link to Microsoft Outlook (Windows only), two AAA batteries, and a one-year warranty.
What's in the box
Product Description
It's time to trade in the paper address book, calendar, and sticky notes for a Visor Neo handheld. With this hip Palm OS handheld you'll have unlimited organizing power, amazing speed and unlimited expansion possibilities - all for a great price. It's easy to use and a snap to expand.Who says a handheld can't do it all? Visor Neo handheld certainly can. In fact, it's the very definition of versatility. It organizes. It expands. And it has plenty of room to store all your favorite software applications. Visor Neo has the latest Handspring software and features so you can do everything faster and better. With the fastest Palm OS processor, searches are speedy, while the graphics are crisp and clear. And finding all your contacts is super easy with the exclusive Fast Lookup feature.Customer Reviews:
Good for Beginners but watch out...........2003-12-24
rock solid handheld.......2003-08-21
true story addendum: I recently got sick in the hospital and while vomiting, dropped my handheld into the toilet bowl. For three days it wouldn't turn on. Then, miraculously, it turned on. I managed to hot-synch all the data from my PC back onto the handheld without any problems. Amazing!
Best buy for a beginner.......2003-05-01
A fantastic PDA.......2002-12-17
great value and quality, but may not be right for everyone.......2002-12-17
Palm OS: If you've ever played around with a Palm OS before, then you gotta admire its simplicity. There's Very little micro managing, relatively low problems, and has thousands of applications available. This platform is also used by 75% - 90% of the handheld community, so unless they're sticking with their cell phones, you'll be able to freely-exchange software, contact info, and variety of other things. Unless you're hardcore on viewing video, listening to mp3s, or other heavy multi-media tasks, PalmOS should suit you fine.
Exterior: has that "cheap, greasy plastic" feel in where fingerprints and body oils smudge very easily on it. Would-have been nice if there was an alternative to this, but I've gotten used to this. Having a snap cover as opposed to a flip cover means that you'll need 2 hands to open/close it, but I've gotten used to this too. They're 3 different colors, mine being opaque/translucent, lighter-colored ones being more transparent/translucent. If your cover is also clean, you'll be able to see your screen without removing the cover, which can be convenient due to what I've mentioned previously.
HotSync/Palm Desktop: Easy setup, easy to use. Backs up your handheld, lets you enter data onto PC and sync it over to your handheld, as well as new software. It'd be nice if it displayed important notices more clearly, such as same files being duplicated because of different information from HotSyncing. Currently, you need to go through the logs to pinpoint this. All in all very well done (with a backup module to provide fail-safe if something should go wrong)
Screen: Grayscale does look ugly next to a color screen and/or higher resolution screen, but you do get your "returns" with a less expensive and less power draining PDA. For me, it would've been nice to view pictures, maps, and games in color, but the grayscale gets the job done quite adequately. Pressure detection on the screen produced minimal concerns, as several times I would miss when I try to click on very small targets, although it may have been like that because I miscallibrated the detection accuracy.
Battery life: the 2 AAA alkalines last me about 2 weeks when I do an hour of gaming or other heavy use a day, while over 3.5 weeks with more mild usage of daily lookups and small notetaking. If this is a concern for you, nickel cadium batteries should save you money. Even though Handspring doesn't recommend this, it's moreso a battery guage monitoring issue than performance/damage-wise.
Reliability: As of with my Neo, I never had any fatal problems. Certain times I had to soft reset because of missing files for some applications caused errors that prompted me to do so, but I never had any information losses, freezes, or crashes. With my original Visor however, loading tons of games or something caused it to "downward spiral". This is where day-by-day, the performance and operation gets noticeably worse (like Win 98 from when you first use it fresh from a reformatted hard drive to4 years later when you need to reboot the damn thing 2-12x a day). Soft-resetting my old Visor temporarily solved this problem for a few days at a time, but ultimately a hard reset (purging all of your data) was required to, yet again, Temporarily remedy this problem. Tech support (NOT a toll-free number BTW) was kind enough to promptly send me a replacement (but first sending me an actual return box to put the defective handheld in. Procedures.... humph).
Springboard: Of the 2 Handspring handhelds I own, both aren't tremendously innovative compared to what the competition has to offer, but are nice values, so I'd generally recommend them to anybody. However, if you aren't going to bother dealing with them modules, I'd recommend you consider the Palm series or even a PocketPC, just to keep your options open. If you Are primarily interested in Visors for their Springboard modules, then poke around online and other places to find out more information, specifically, what modules you would use, availability, and prices. Thankfully, modules no longer cost "an arm and a leg" like they did years ago, but certain combinations of purchases can still deplete your wallet quickly. Many models of the latter 2 also have some sort of expandable data storage/backup and can even mimic the functionality that Springboard technology offers for Visors (e.g. certain Palms have wireless email/web capabilities and PocketPCs have a built in mp3 player). As for myself, I currently own 4 different kinds of modules: 8MB backup module (peace of mind for in case my PC AND my Visor BOTH fail), 16MB Hagiwara flash memory (expandable storage for databases, Ebooks, and games), a 2MB flash memory + "silent" vibrating alarm (for the limited amount of memory and also being cheap), and the SoundsGood mp3 player I managed to find on Amazon Marketplace (I plan on getting a REAL mp3 player soon, but this novelty item does come in handy for when I don't lug the player around).
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Handspring Visor Neo (Blue)
Manufacturer: Handspring ProductGroup: CE Binding: Electronics Product Features:
ASIN: B00005OCWX |
Amazon.com Product Description
Get the memory, versatility, and speed of a much more expensive handheld with the affordable Handspring Visor Neo. This striking, blue handheld comes with 8 MB of memory, allowing you plenty of space to store thousands of names, addresses, appointments, memos, to-do items, expense items, and e-mails. Plus, the Visor Neo runs with a fast 33 MHz Motorola Dragonball VZ processor--the same as in the Visor Edge.Expand the capabilities of your Visor Neo with the built-in expansion slot, which lets you turn your handheld into an MP3 player, pager, modem, and GPS receiver. Just slide an optional hardware or software Springboard module into the slot on the back, and your Visor Neo takes on a new function with no configuration or additional software required.
The Handspring Visor Neo runs the popular Palm operating system, so it is fully compatible with thousands of Palm OS applications. Also, Handspring has added features to the Palm OS, like an advanced datebook, calculator, world clock, and built-in floating-point math support. Enter memos and notes into your Visor Neo with the easy-to-use Graffiti handwriting software.
With the Visor Neo's speedy USB connection, synchronizing data with your desktop has never been easier. Just place your Visor Neo into the included USB cradle and exchange data with the touch of a button. The Visor Neo's infrared port lets you beam data to other handhelds, and it also has a built-in microphone for use with digital voice recorder modules.
The Handspring Visor Neo comes with a USB HotSync cradle, stylus, snap cover, desktop synchronization software for Windows and Mac, software link for synchronizing with Microsoft Outlook (Windows only), two AAA batteries, and a one-year warranty. E-mail support is included for Microsoft Outlook, Lotus cc:Mail, and Qualcomm Eudora.
Product Description
It's time to trade in the paper address book, calendar, and sticky notes for a Visor Neo handheld. With this hip Palm OS handheld you'll have unlimited organizing power, amazing speed and unlimited expansion possibilities - all for a great price. It's easy to use and a snap to expand.Who says a handheld can't do it all? Visor Neo handheld certainly can. In fact, it's the very definition of versatility. It organizes. It expands. And it has plenty of room to store all your favorite software applications. Visor Neo has the latest Handspring software and features so you can do everything faster and better. With the fastest Palm OS processor, searches are speedy, while the graphics are crisp and clear. And finding all your contacts is super easy with the exclusive Fast Lookup feature.Customer Reviews:
Good for Beginners but watch out...........2003-12-24
rock solid handheld.......2003-08-21
true story addendum: I recently got sick in the hospital and while vomiting, dropped my handheld into the toilet bowl. For three days it wouldn't turn on. Then, miraculously, it turned on. I managed to hot-synch all the data from my PC back onto the handheld without any problems. Amazing!
Best buy for a beginner.......2003-05-01
A fantastic PDA.......2002-12-17
great value and quality, but may not be right for everyone.......2002-12-17
Palm OS: If you've ever played around with a Palm OS before, then you gotta admire its simplicity. There's Very little micro managing, relatively low problems, and has thousands of applications available. This platform is also used by 75% - 90% of the handheld community, so unless they're sticking with their cell phones, you'll be able to freely-exchange software, contact info, and variety of other things. Unless you're hardcore on viewing video, listening to mp3s, or other heavy multi-media tasks, PalmOS should suit you fine.
Exterior: has that "cheap, greasy plastic" feel in where fingerprints and body oils smudge very easily on it. Would-have been nice if there was an alternative to this, but I've gotten used to this. Having a snap cover as opposed to a flip cover means that you'll need 2 hands to open/close it, but I've gotten used to this too. They're 3 different colors, mine being opaque/translucent, lighter-colored ones being more transparent/translucent. If your cover is also clean, you'll be able to see your screen without removing the cover, which can be convenient due to what I've mentioned previously.
HotSync/Palm Desktop: Easy setup, easy to use. Backs up your handheld, lets you enter data onto PC and sync it over to your handheld, as well as new software. It'd be nice if it displayed important notices more clearly, such as same files being duplicated because of different information from HotSyncing. Currently, you need to go through the logs to pinpoint this. All in all very well done (with a backup module to provide fail-safe if something should go wrong)
Screen: Grayscale does look ugly next to a color screen and/or higher resolution screen, but you do get your "returns" with a less expensive and less power draining PDA. For me, it would've been nice to view pictures, maps, and games in color, but the grayscale gets the job done quite adequately. Pressure detection on the screen produced minimal concerns, as several times I would miss when I try to click on very small targets, although it may have been like that because I miscallibrated the detection accuracy.
Battery life: the 2 AAA alkalines last me about 2 weeks when I do an hour of gaming or other heavy use a day, while over 3.5 weeks with more mild usage of daily lookups and small notetaking. If this is a concern for you, nickel cadium batteries should save you money. Even though Handspring doesn't recommend this, it's moreso a battery guage monitoring issue than performance/damage-wise.
Reliability: As of with my Neo, I never had any fatal problems. Certain times I had to soft reset because of missing files for some applications caused errors that prompted me to do so, but I never had any information losses, freezes, or crashes. With my original Visor however, loading tons of games or something caused it to "downward spiral". This is where day-by-day, the performance and operation gets noticeably worse (like Win 98 from when you first use it fresh from a reformatted hard drive to4 years later when you need to reboot the damn thing 2-12x a day). Soft-resetting my old Visor temporarily solved this problem for a few days at a time, but ultimately a hard reset (purging all of your data) was required to, yet again, Temporarily remedy this problem. Tech support (NOT a toll-free number BTW) was kind enough to promptly send me a replacement (but first sending me an actual return box to put the defective handheld in. Procedures.... humph).
Springboard: Of the 2 Handspring handhelds I own, both aren't tremendously innovative compared to what the competition has to offer, but are nice values, so I'd generally recommend them to anybody. However, if you aren't going to bother dealing with them modules, I'd recommend you consider the Palm series or even a PocketPC, just to keep your options open. If you Are primarily interested in Visors for their Springboard modules, then poke around online and other places to find out more information, specifically, what modules you would use, availability, and prices. Thankfully, modules no longer cost "an arm and a leg" like they did years ago, but certain combinations of purchases can still deplete your wallet quickly. Many models of the latter 2 also have some sort of expandable data storage/backup and can even mimic the functionality that Springboard technology offers for Visors (e.g. certain Palms have wireless email/web capabilities and PocketPCs have a built in mp3 player). As for myself, I currently own 4 different kinds of modules: 8MB backup module (peace of mind for in case my PC AND my Visor BOTH fail), 16MB Hagiwara flash memory (expandable storage for databases, Ebooks, and games), a 2MB flash memory + "silent" vibrating alarm (for the limited amount of memory and also being cheap), and the SoundsGood mp3 player I managed to find on Amazon Marketplace (I plan on getting a REAL mp3 player soon, but this novelty item does come in handy for when I don't lug the player around).
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Handspring 8mb Backup Springboard Module for Visor Deluxe, Neo, Platinum and Prism
Manufacturer: Handspring ProductGroup: CE Binding: Electronics Similar Items:
Product Features:
ASIN: B00005OCX1 |
Product Description
Back it all up! The Backup Module lets you back up your entire Handspring handheld with one touch. The module can then be removed and stored separately from your handheld. Mobile users who don't have access to their desktop for HotSyncing, or users who don't HotSync with a PC, won't be able to live without it. If you lose data in your handheld (due to battery failure, etc.), you can easily restore the backup copy stored in the Backup Module. Just insert the module and click the button!Amazon.com Product Description
Protect the data on your Handspring Visor Deluxe, Neo, Platinum, or Prism while on the road with this 8 MB backup module. With one touch of a button, this module copies and stores the entire contents of your Handspring handheld computer. Using Handspring's popular Springboard design, this module simply snaps into the back of your Visor and works without any extra configuration or software. Remove it just as easily and slip this compact and light module into a pocket or purse for extra peace of mind. This module is ideal for mobile users who may not have access to a desktop computer for data synchronization.Customer Reviews:
great backup.......2005-05-06
exactly what I wanted.......2002-09-21
Wonderful product!.......2002-08-09
simple!!!!!.......2002-06-06
Takes a beating and keeps on Protecting.......2002-03-06
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Handspring Stylus 3-pack for Visor Neo, Platinum, Prism, and Pro
Manufacturer: Handspring ProductGroup: CE Binding: Electronics Similar Items: Product Features:
ASIN: B00005OCXD |
Product Description
Handspring is the leading provider of handheld computing products. Handspring fundamentally changes the way people organize, manage and communicate. The company invents solutions that enable truly simple organization and that provide easy access to the Web so people can really communicate with each other from their shirt pockets rather than from their desktops.Handspring offers a wide selection of styli and pen/stylus combinations for your Visor handheld. With this 3-stylus pack you'll always have some extras on hand!Amazon.com Product Description
Invest in a premium stylus to go with your Handspring Visor Neo, Platinum, Prism, or Pro with this handy three-pack of metal styluses. These styli have a slim design to match your Visor, and this handy three-pack lets you keep an extra stylus or two on hand in the office, at home, or on the road. This three-pack also comes with a reset pin.Customer Reviews:
Handspring Stylus 3-pack for Visor Neo, Platinum, Prism, and.......2004-03-07
Don't settle for cheap imitations.......2003-05-01
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Replacement Stylus - Handspring Visor (Neo,Pro,Deluxe,Platinum,Prism) (3-Pack)
Manufacturer: CompanionLink Software ProductGroup: CE Binding: Electronics Product Features:
ASIN: B00006JK12 |
Product Description
This Replacement Stylus is designed for Handspring Visor (Neo, Pro, Deluxe, Platinum, Prism).For a complete compatibility list please refer to the original manufacturer's web site.Customer Reviews:
Fits well, but isn't the same as the original.......2003-08-09
Still Looking.......2003-01-10
Not quite replacements..........2002-12-13
Pros: They fit in the stylus holder ok and they're reasonably cheap. You get three and you'll probably lose some so that's nice. Just be sure to put the spares somewhere that you'll remember.
Cons: These are one piece shaped alike versions. They have no removable end with a reset wire like the original. They're sort of crusty to use - just don't feel good in your hand and aren't finished very well.
Overall: They work. It might be hard to find an original replacement now and even if you do they'll be expensive (relatively) and you'll probably lose another one if you lost the first. I'd say they're ok if you can't afford or can't find an original replacement.
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For Handspring Stylus for Visor Neo/ Platinum/ Prism/ Pro (1 Pack) - Stylus + Ballpoint pen + Reset Pin 3 in 1
Manufacturer: MyNetDeals ProductGroup: CE Product Features:
ASIN: B0007XMSLO |
Product Description
1. 3 in 1: Stylus + Reset Pin + Ballpoint pen. 2. This PDA Stylus works for Sony Clie PEG-Sony N/S, Palm series, Handspring Visor Neo
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OtterBox 2601 Black Waterproof PDA Palm Armor Case
Manufacturer: OtterBox ProductGroup: CE Product Features:
ASIN: B000MQKTNU |
Product Description
The OtterBox 2601 PDA case is the perfect companion for your PDA that will keep it protected in the most extreme situations. Whether it be an industrial setting, hiking or camping, hunting, or extreme sports, the Otterbox 2600 is never out of it's element. With industry leading protective abilities, your PDA will stay safe while still being accessible. The protected recessed face allows you to use your stylus and access the buttons on the front of your PDA while remaining waterproof. Its crushproof design means you're protected from your PDA getting stepped on, bumped, or dropped. The OtterBox 2600 comes with several foam inserts to customize the fit of your PDA. Installation is easy and will leave your PDA secure. The best part is that the OtterBox 2601 comes with a lifetime unconditional manufacturer's guarantee.
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Handspring Visor Neo ClearTouch Anti-Glare Screen Protectors (3-Pack)
Manufacturer: BoxWave Corporation ProductGroup: CE Product Features:
ASIN: B0002KSS7U |
Product Description
The super clear screen protector. ClearTouch Anti-Glare's numerous features enhance your Handspring Visor Neo's display and provides you with more than protection from scratches!
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Nextel iDEN i50/80/90 to Handspring Visor Wireless Internet Cable
Manufacturer: Gomadic ProductGroup: CE Binding: Electronics Product Features:
ASIN: B00023NQ8I |
Product Description
Let Gomadic get your PDA on the wireless web the easy way! Using our unique mobile phone data connectivity cables, users can easily connect their PDA to the wireless web to send email, browse the Internet, send faxes, and more!
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For Handspring Visor Neo/ Platinum/ Prism/ Pro - 2 in 1 Replacement PDA Stylus / Styli / Light Pen (1 Pack, Silver Color)
Manufacturer: MyNetDeals ProductGroup: CE Product Features:
ASIN: B000BNN0KI |
Product Description
This Light Pen 2 in 1 PDA stylus is a great new accessory for your PDA. A replacement for your existing stylus but with a built in LED and a pen on the other tip, help you writing in dark area LED color: WhiteElectronics: