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Customer Reviews
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Makes my Visor a tremendous Medical Resource
I bought this module recently, and have found it works like a charm. I am a first-year doctor in pediatrics (a pediatric intern) and absolutely LOVE the amount of memory it gives me! Handheldmed.com recently gave away the entire merck manual for free, and with this module I had no problem storing and accessing the entire thing (which is a mind-blowing 4.5mb!) on the flash module. The only reason that this product did not recieve 5 stars was -
(1) It initially crashed my Visor until I figured out how to place the Merck and the Merck reader on it (I had to copy it, NOT move it)
(2) It causes some hacks to crash (switchhack, ect)
Highly recomended, especially for medical Visor users!
-Mike
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Limited expension
For that price, Handspring should have made a 32M module (or better yet a 64M for a higher price), AND offer the capability to transfer the contents of most other modules into this module, making it a "mother" module which could essentially become an integral part of the Visor and stay. If Handspring can do this, then it truly lives up to the aspiration of an "expendable system." Otherwise, this module has very limited use and will soon become obsolete. In fact, it soon gets in the way and helps to make Visor users module jugglers.
One might say 64M is too much to ask at the moment. But people who say that will change their mind soon. Already, Franklin is introducing memory modules up to 64M for its eBookman this fall. I am sure other will follow the suit. Technologically, there is no problems to do much better than 8M for [$$]. If IBM can put 1G memory in a PC card, how difficult is it to make a 64M module of Visor's module size? Other than market factors, there is no technically good justification why RAM costs only [.$$]/M for PCs, and only a bit higher for digital cameras and digital audio players, but [$$]/M for Visor.
Others will say you won't need 64M for a PDA. Well, if you use PDA as an organizer only, you won't even need more than 256K. But memory expansion begets broader usage. I'd like to put many large reference materials in my PDA. Other people may want materials such as audio and images that are even more memory intensive (but for these people, I suggest they go with the Pocket PC platform, for at least the present Palm's OS is not intended to perform multimedia functions). Once the memory is available, developers will provider useful contents. For starters, how about a real English dictionary with pronunciation scripts? So far none is available. Noah Pro takes more than 7M yet still has no pronunciation. Landware is introducing a "pocket Webster" but has only very limited number of word entries due to the memory consideration.
The Visor 8M module deserves three stars due to a concept that has potential.
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Best for Programs/Games
I purchased this with the Visor Deluxe as soon as it was available. It doubles the memory of the Deluxe(obviously) from 8 to 16 Meg of memory. The File Mover function is very easy to use, so it is a breeze to move Games and other optional files to the module. This allows for both safekeeping and easy removal of the Module, as well as leaving the Internal memory free for serious endeavors such as the Calendar and Contacts.
It does not much matter what you move, since it is all accessible in a relatively transparent fashion on the category screens of the Visor. The File Mover icon is only way you can even tell that the 8M module is attached.
The only flaw that I have found is that the Books I have downloaded cannot be transferred to the Module with the Reader that they use. Maybe someone brighter than me can figure it out and share the wealth.
If the Book transfer worked, I would have given the product a 4th Star. If it worked and they dropped the price, it would definitely be a 5 star value in my opinion.
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