Handspring Prism Review page 2

 

 

Screen

 

 

Prism

16bit Active Matrix TFT

65,536 Color display

 

 

Palm IIIc

8bit Active Matrix TFT

256 Color display

 

 

TRGpro

16 Gray Scale

FSTN LCD

 

Expandability

 

TRGpro

8 MB and 2 MB Flash memory are built in.

YES - CF Card up to 1 Gig of storage

 

 

Prism

8 MB built in

YES - Springboard 8 & 16 Meg storage

 

 

Palm IIIc

8 MB built in

NO - N/A

 

 

CPU Speed

 

 

Prism

33MHz

Motorola Dragonball-VZ

 

 

Palm IIIc

20MHz

Motorola Dragonball-EZ

 

 

TRGpro

16MHz

Motorola DragonBall-EZ

 

 

Price

 

 

TRGpro

$299.00 US

HandEra

 

 

Palm IIIc

$329.00 US

Palm

 

 

 

Prism

$449.00 US

Handspring

 

 

As you can see from the above chart there is no clear "winner". Each of these products has it's own strengths and weaknesses. "Just facts" are insufficient to declare a winner. So we'll need to take a closer look a the subjective factors to make a recommendation ....

 

Side view of the Prism

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