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More details on the Visor/Handspring (Update)

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 13, 1999 @11:56PM from the from-the-inventors-of-the-palm-pilot dept.

Thanks to Ian Hopper> for the current story on CNN about the Visor. Pictures-and in a very cool turn of events-two very cool peripheral ports in the back of the machine. It runs about 20% faster then the Palm III or V, 8 MB of RAM in the high-end version of the machine. Oh-and about 2/3 the cost of a Palm V. Check out the Palminfocenter for more details, as well.Update: 09/14 03:33 by H :The corp. website appears to be up and running as well.

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Batteries by EnglishTim · 1999-09-13 15:37 · Score: 4

It would be nice to see whether it is possible to recharge it's batteries from the docking cradle - it's one of the things that I miss from my PalmIII.

Also, the GPS module sounds *very* interesting. It'd be great if it could integrate with some of the 'alarm' functionality in the calendar application, as I tend to find that I want to be reminded to do things when I'm in certain places, rather than at specific times - i.e. to be able to specify rules like:

o Remind me to pay my phone bill 10 minutes after I get home.
o Remind me to buy some weedkiller next time I'm the the town centre.
o If I'm still at work at 7:30pm on Tuesday, remind me that the first episode of 'Futurama' is being shown on Sky1 at 8:00...

Tim