This is the nuts... (Handspring Visor Deluxe)

Member Name: sav2001

Product:	Handspring Visor Deluxe
Date:	28/09/00 (99 review reads)
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Advantages: Build quality, lower cost than 3-Com

Disadvantages: A decent case costs £15, but you can personalise it!

I was recommended to purchase a Handspring Visor Deluxe by a friend in the electronics industry, and have not looked back since. I use mine to keep my life in order, from the office to the playing field, everything gets entered. Getting connected is a absolute doddle, with the USB connected cradle plugging straight in to the back of my Windows 98 PC (I had to get a second cradle for the office for £25, but £100 cheaper than a 3-Com unit gives you a bit of spare cash...), and the CD gave a wonderful display of autorun technlogy.
As for the software, it comes with the standard diary, contacts book, notepad, calculator, etc, but there must be 50 million sites on the internet offering freeware, shareware and full software products to run under the standard Palm OS. I have got too many games installed to even consider working during the day, even with a copy of SimCity to waste away the hours.
Admittedly the grey-scale screen is a shame, although you don't really need colour in a diary, and a few functions that could have been included in the diary are missing (such as easy anniversary entry, alarms on a daily basis, etc), but these gaps can all be filled by downloading some free or cheap software as mentioned earlier.
If you are in the market for a PDA then check out the WinCE devices, check out 3-Com, then buy a Visor Deluxe. And you will need the 8Mb memory, trust me. And they even announced an MP3 player and mobile phone plugins today. Nice.
And I am not even going to go in to how easy it is to download e-mails on teh move using my Nokia 7110 mobile 'phone...

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