Alternatively, you can click on the name of your favorite revival theater, and get a list of what it is playing that night. Handspring's PalmOS device, called the Visor, comes in an array of different colors, as any good piece of consumer electronics should. This clever add-on is a complete cellular telephone that drops into the backside of the Visor. Or you can just tap the number on the Visor's screen. There's a simple motivation behind the VisorPhone, says Chris Cadwell, Handspring's director of marketing for communication products.
Cell phones are arguably one of the most successful consumer products of all time.
One reason is ease of use. But in fact, he says, cell phones are extraordinarily complicated devices to master. The VisorPhone does away with most of these problems by eliminating the cell phone's traditional user interface and instead simply integrating the phone's telephony features in with the other PalmOS functions. The result is a cell phone as easy to use as a Palm-based computer. To be sure, this isn't the first time that a company has tried to fuse a PalmOS-based computer with a cellular telephone.