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Article: Handspring Unveils Handheld Device
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- March 12, 2001
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MAY WONG, AP Technology Writer
AP Online
03-12-2001
Handspring Unveils Handheld Device
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Hand-to-hand combat in the booming market for personal digital assistants has escalated a notch.
Handspring Inc. introduced on Monday a sleek, metal-encased PDA to directly compete with Palm Inc.'s top-selling Palm V.
The Visor Edge is Handspring's first slim-design handheld device. It is .44 inches thick, 4.7 inches tall and 3.1 inches wide, and weighs 4.8 ounces.
The Mountain View-based company, founded in 1998, makes electronic organizers that run on the same operating system as Palm Pilots. But, until Monday, its line of devices were thicker and vastly different from ...