Review article Lebedeva

In his article, Oleg Lebedev share personal experiences and feelings of an unnamed "test" to work with organizers Palm m100, Visor Deluxe, and TRGPro. And as a result of these impressions is "Editor's Choice." Very similar to the program for future use, "only on computer topics. Editor's Choice became TRGPro. We are ready to accept this only in part. Indeed, this machine may be a good choice for certain categories of users. For what exactly? About this later. While we note that the choice of Oleg is somewhat contrary to the choice of the rest of the world. Among the PalmOS organizers largest share of the actual Palm, Visor on go, and only then TRGPro and others (see article on ZDNet.com). What is the essence of the author's claims to the model Visor Deluxe? "Developers Visor did not pay due attention to design devices, and in terms of usability and design forethought Visor markedly inferior products, Palm and TRG Products." Design - fabric is thin and hard to talk about it. Somehow assumed that the highest achievement of designers - a series of PalmV, and Visor is made easier. However, all the same shape and color series PalmIII - TRGPro reflect the achievements of three years ago. Now such ideas are hard to recognize today. So that the superiority of design over TRGPro Visor is in serious doubt. "Housing (proposed several options for different colors, we have been black, but we also saw, and a translucent blue) leaves a sense of fragility and vulnerability." This feeling arises from the color? Or what? Visor fairly densely covered with a lid that protects the glass even when the device on the floor. Of course, this is not a full guarantee, but the "sense of fragility," should disappear. With the "feeling of vulnerability more difficult here need comments from other experts. Further, the processor: "The device is equipped with a CPU DragonBall EZ/16, 8 MB RAM and 2 MB of ROM. This decision can not be explained by any practical considerations, because the user has no possibility to upgrade the OS." Apparently, the confusion of the author refers only to the choice of ROM, ie renunciation of the use of flash memory, because processor then this is for all clones (almost all). With regard to ROM, then a step to explain it was still possible. Handspring makes it so (FAQ on the Visor Deluxe): "The operating system device Handspring Visor Deluxe may be exposed by software upgrade via patches (OS updates are installed in RAM and do not require rewriting Rom) and modules Springboard. We do not use flash memory to store operating system files for the following reasons: 1) upgrade is quite possible through by software patches and modules Springboard