Handspring visor | The first smart phone?

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

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!

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

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

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.

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~

Is the a way to get these working with current cellphones and laptops?

I sill have my VisorPhone module - and my anodized blue Edge 👍 Thought it was going to be about the phone module! But great video anyway!

How sharp would you say the screen is compared to say the Palm Vx? Also, how much light does it reflect?

No, it wasn’t the first smartphone, because it wasn’t a phone. And it wasn’t even the first PDA, since it was a clone of the Palm Pilot.

The Treo, also made by Hsndspring, was the first smartphone. It was a Visor with a built in internet capable phone.