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Incipio Handspring Visor Case (Arctic Armadillo Silver Velvet)

Incipio Handspring Visor Case (Arctic Armadillo Silver Velvet)

List Price: $26.99
Your Price: $15.99
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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good starter case
Review: This is a great first case for the Handspring user. The fabric is rugged; the zipper is very sturdy, and using your own cover to hold the Visor in place means it'll always fit. I don't personally have a lot of use for the extra cord / handle, but I can see where someone else might get a lot of use out of it. The storage is adequate; you could take a few cards, a little cash (bills only), but no Springboard modules. My only complaint is that the stylus is hard to extract from the Visor due to the zipper, and there's no place to easily store the stylus separately. All in all, good value for the money.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: the devil's in the details...
Review: This is a nifty little product...with a few minor irritations. If I could do halves, I'd give it 3 1/2 stars. As it stands, I'll give it a qualified 4.

I bought this because I've always been in search of the perfect wallet...I hate carrying purses (I go for the kind that sling across my front so I don't know they're there), but I don't always wear jeans. Basically, I wanted something that would hold my Visor, cash, id, debit card, and all of the assorted plastic flotsam and paper jetsam that I seem to accumulate while going about my everyday business.

I obsessively researched every carrying case I could find on Yahoo Shopping, the Handspring site, and Amazon, and settled on this bad boy. It looked perfect -- funky, fuzzy, and secure...and it is.

I love the strap, it holds plenty of cash and scraps of paper. I was able to transfer all 12 of my various plastic cards into the pockets, and there's a sewn-in sleeve that you slip the plastic Visor cover through so that you can socket the thing in either face up or face down.

"Sounds great," you say "so what's the problem?" Well, it all has to do with the zipper. See, the zipper goes all the way around the case -- too far around, as far as I'm concerned. Sometimes it gets a bit buried in the spine of the case, and I have to spend a few seconds digging it out. This isn't a big problem, but it can get annoying when I'm trying to get my credit card out to pay for groceries and there are 6 people behind me in line.

The other zipper problem is that it's a bit too snug -- the designers really should have added about a half an inch to the length and width of the case to prevent the zipper's getting stuck while it goes around the corners. As it is, I sometimes have to shift the Visor up or down a bit before the zipper will clear (it feels kind of like moving back and forth to settle into a parallel parking spot).

These problems are annoying enough that I'm considering returning the case, even though I really like it, but I won't do it until I've found something else that holds everything and fits in my pocket (there's a bit of a bulge, but my roomie says that it's nothing too noticeable -- of course, I tend to wear my jeans loose).

If you're looking for something that will hold lots of cards, has a secure zipper and carrying strap, and is funky in a not-made-of-animals/"I'm-not-*really*-a-grown-up-even-if-I-sometimes-act-like-one" kind of way, this might be for you. It all depends on how much the zipper thing bugs you.

Anyway, hope this helps. Like I said, it's a nifty little case, but the devil's in the details...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Protection
Review: This visor protector offers great reliable protection against bangs and dings in your favorite electronic equipment. This is great!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Awesome hawaiian print, and small enough to fit in my pocket
Review: When I first ordered the product I thought it was going to be big and bulky, but it fits my handspring perfectly and fits in my pocket as well. I love the hawaiian print, and wish there were some cases with the same kind of print. Everyone comments on it when I take it out. I would recommend it to anyone who is in need of a cool case, and wants to get away from that "Corporate Monkey" look.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Garbage. Keep looking.
Review: Who designed this thing? The only way to secure the Visor in the case is to put it into one of the 'folders'. So, you can't use it by simply unzipping the case. You have to open the case and remove the Visor from the extrememly tight-fitting pocket.

The design is ridiculous. It would have been easy to create straps or some other locking mechanism so the Visor could be used quickly without having to remove it entirely from the case.

It looks to me like this product was originally designed for a paper datebook and repurposed as a "Visor" case to make a quick buck.


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