Home | Forums | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop | Contact Us | Log Out Handspring Visor Neo Email This Print This View My Personal Library Heavy Gear February 2002 • Vol.2 Issue 2 Page(s) 25 in print issue Add To My Personal Library Handspring Visor Neo Handspring's Visor Neo may finally put the original Visor and Visor Deluxe to bed. The Neo resembles the original Visors, as well as the Visor Platinum, in size and shape but comes in smoke, red, and blue colors. The 33MHz Dragonball processor in the Visor Neo is identical to the one in the Visor Platinum but is twice as fast as the processor in the original Visors. Aside from colors, the Neo only varies from the Platinum in that the Neo's OS is more up to date. The latest version of Handspring's modified Palm OS (version 3.5.2H3) adds some minor features. The most striking addition is Fast Lookup in the Address Book application, which lets you use the Neo's hardware buttons to sort through and pull up contact information without using a stylus to tap on the display. Contact information is the data I want to quickly retrieve most often. Not having to pull out a stylus when I want to retrieve it is nice. Unlike the Visor Pro and Visor Edge, the Neo doesn't have support for silent alarms because it doesn't have a flashing LED. The Neo features 8MB of RAM. Most Palm OS devices (save Handspring's Visor Pro, which has 16MB of RAM) have a maximum of 8MB of RAM. Unlike the Visor Pro, the Neo uses two AAA batteries. Frequent travelers find alkaline batteries convenient because they're readily available everywhere. Overall, the Neo doesn't offer much more than a few minor upgrades and a new skin. Still, the device is the same price as the Visor Platinum, so you might as well opt for the latest software. The Visor Deluxe is still available for $70 less than the Neo, but I feel the Neo is the best sub-$200 Visor available. by Chad Denton Visor Neo $199 Handspring (888) 565-9393 (650) 230-5000 www.handspring.com  User Reviews Be the first to write a review of this product Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this article? Type a word or phrase that identifies the topic and click "Search" to find relevant articles from within our editorial database. Enter A Subject (key words or a phrase): ALL Words (‘digital’ AND ‘photography’) ANY Words (‘digital’ OR ‘photography’) Exact Match ('digital photography'- all words MUST appear together) Home      Copyright & Legal Information      Privacy Policy      Site Map      Contact Us Copyright © 2010 Sandhills Publishing Company U.S.A. All rights reserved.