Handspring Visor Serial Hotsync Cradle (Graphite)

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004TDWV
• Item model number: Serial HotSync Cradle, Graphit
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 24, 2000

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Stay in synch at home as well as the office! Order a second cradle for your Handspring Visor or Visor Deluxe connected organizer. It will keep your organizer up to date with multiple computers and keep your home and office computers synchronized. This model connects to a computer's serial port, so it's ideal for users of non-USB-equipped PCs and Macs who need to HotSync their Visor to multiple computers.

Product Description

Buy a second (or even third) HotSync Cradle and do your synchronizing at home, at the office, or anywhere. Visor Serial HotSync Cradle enables users of non-USB equipped PCs and Macs to HotSync their Visor to multiple computers.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great alternative, June 21, 2000

By	zemes - See all my reviews

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It's great that Handspring makes this an available option. My desktop has USB, so the USB cradle comes with the Visor fits the bill. But my laptop does not have USB. There are three options available. First is of course to live without a second cradle for a while, because I might soon buy a new laptop. Who knows! Second is to buy a PCMCIA card adapter for UBS port. Third is to buy Handspring's serial port cradle. It's not a big decision, but it's not an easy one either. I in fact mulled over this for a while before deciding to take the serial cradle. The main reasoning for getting the serial cradle is that I figure I need a second cradle anyway, one at home and one at work. Yes the serial cradle is much slower than the USB, but Palm users have alway used the slow serial port sync, and they still do. With this respect, I must thank Handspring for introducing a fast USB sync while at the same time making a serial port cradle available. As a standing alone product, I would rate it four star due the lack of speed, but as an option within a complete product line, the serial cradle deserves a solid five star.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is a good alternative for Palm Developers, November 21, 2000

By	M. Lutfi "Linux Newbie" (Santa Rosa, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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I was developing software for Handspring using CodeWarrior. Unfortunately the current CodeWarrior(c) does not support USB yet, so I have to look for a serial cradle for Handspring. This is very helpful for me to download the Palm binary code for POSE/Palm emulator.

I haven't tried this cradle to other softwares, put it seems to work to other softwares too as long as they have COMx supports.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ok but slow, June 13, 2000

By	"jfeierst" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This is a nice alternative to the usb if you don't have usb accessible computer, but the drawback is the lack in speed which is considerable.