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Handspring Press Release Archive
HANDSPRING LAUNCHES VISOR IN ITALY
Handspring International brings its award-winning expandable handheld computers to the Italian market via Web, computer resellers and retail
MILAN, Italy (February 27th, 2001) - Handspring International Sarl. today announced it will begin selling its popular line of Visor expandable handheld computers and Springboard expansion modules in Italy. Italian customers can now buy the colourful family of Visor handhelds in localised Italian versions from the Italian Handspring web site at www.handspring.com/it at prices of ITL 649.000 for Visor Deluxe, ITL 799.000 for Visor Platinum and ITL 1.299.000 for Visor Prism.
Visor will also be available this month through computer and consumer electronics retailers including Computer Discount, Compy and Amico via a distribution agreement with CDC and to a broad network of computer resellers made available by agreements with Ingram Italy and E-Motion, the specialised distributor for the handheld market. With the establishment of these relationships Handspring anticipates that its channel partners will begin carrying a variety of Springboard modules and accessories such as the Backup Module, the 8MB Flash Memory Module, the Xircom 56k wireline modem and the Targus Stowaway Keyboard.
Roger Kermisch, vice president and general manager of Handspring Europe, said, "We believe in the trend-setting nature of the Italian market for consumer products, in fact mobile phone penetration is amongst the largest in the world. Handspring's focus on delivering products with great style and design coupled with easy to use expansion solutions, including the recently announced VisorPhone, position us to serve the Italian customer with a ground-breaking mix of exciting products. Our Springboard technology and fast-growing developer community allow us to introduce new expansion modules, among them wireless voice and data modules that will support the convergence of handheld and mobile phone products."
Products to be distributed include the Visor Deluxe (Graphite & Blue), Visor Prism and Visor Platinum. All three handhelds include 8MB of RAM, come with a leather carrying case and are compatible with software developed for the Palm OS. Visor Prism, Handspring's first colour-enabled product, boasts 16-bit colour and can display over 65,000 colours for viewing picture-quality graphics, as well as vivid games and maps. Visor Platinum is the fastest Palm OS handheld computer on the market today, at least 50% faster than Visor Deluxe and as much as twice as fast as many other Palm OS handheld computer on the market.
Visor Handheld Computer Features
- Springboard expansion slot
- Address Book, Date Book, To Do list, Memo Pad, expense tracking and email applications (email requires synchronization with a desktop computer)
- Advanced Date Book application
- Advanced scientific and business calculator
- World Clock
- Trim design (4.8" x 3.0" by 0.7")
- Light-weight (5.4 oz.)
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- Built-in USB support
- Native support for the Macintosh OS
- USB Synchronisation cradle
- Infrared transceiver
- Backlight
- Built-in microphone
- Compatibility with thousands of Palm OS applications
- Synchronises with Microsoft Outlook or Palm Desktop
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