Handspring visor | The first smart phone?

The Handspring Visor, a device at the dawn of the smartphone generation that had big dreams of what it could be but the technology wasn't quite ready. Competing against Palm - the company that started it all.
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[@Sb129]

The Palm III and Visor used the same CPU (the Motorola Dragonball, yes that is the real name) but Handspring changed some of the waitstates in the OS (or something to that effect) and it felt snappier. You could do the same on a Palm III with hacks. And the biggest difference between the Solo and Deluxe was that the Solo had 2mb of RAM and the Deluxe had a hefty 8mb. Those discs were just full of Shareware cuz they were free to redistribute. I even have some discs that came free with a magazine. The modules were really what made this come alive. I remember I had the Tiger Woods module, the eyemodule and blank one. Now though, I have the phone module, I have several card readers and even a rare MP3 module. You know it was really a shame the DOTcom bubble burst had to negatively effect every tech company, even those not involved. Ofc with so much "free" money out there it was no wonder that weird modules were made so at least we have that. I actually had a Palm IIIe back in the day and when I upgraded to the Visor Deluxe it was amazing! To go from 2mb to 8mb was great~

[@TheBasementChannel]

Great story and well told. Also appreciate the cutting edge graphic effects.

[@RetrogradeScene]

Not sure about cutting edge but it’s the best my laptop can cope with!!

[@Yesterzine]

Of course the handspring was inspired by the iMac. Proof : no floppy drive. Also appreciate classic “trying to jam a cart in” action.

[@RetrogradeScene]

Of course I can’t believe I missed the evidence. There’s a project a springboard floppy drive module

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

I'd buy a Banana PooPoo. Get the Pocket Banana PooPoo. Just pop it in your pocket! That was informative and entertaining! What a cheeky so-and-so with his games though. It wasn't the 1980s when you could get away with that stuff!

[@RetrogradeScene]

Yeah when I first saw it on the disk I thought, Wow Nintendo has a licensed Palm game? Then I noticed the spelling.

[@RobertDeloyd]

Nice story with a lot of memories and history I've lived through 🤗

[@RetrogradeScene]

It was such an exciting time for tech! Thanks for watching

[@loreleiwantstofight9873]

I loved the video, the visor deluxe is one of my favorite devices. I wish more stuff would come out with the color translucent plastic 😭 Sidenote: They must've had different releases of the blue visor deluxes, bc the sealed in-box stylus that came with mine has the removable nib with reset pin. Same color combo too.

[@RetrogradeScene]

Thanks! I’m sure we can’t be the only ones to want transparent tech still. Definitely a market for it. That’s interesting with the stylus. It’s a great excuse for me to buy more to investigate further!!