Starting with the physical construction, the Visor is very well made (mine is Graphite, as I think are all of the press/analyst units). The case is clean and tight, although I’m still getting used to the IR port on the left side. 

I don’t have a Palm V, so I can’t compare the two, but I do have a III and a and a VII. 

A Lot Faster

The screen on the VD (Visor Deluxe) is wonderful, the same one as on the V. It also seems a lot faster than the III or the VII. Could be due to the use of the Dragonball EZ, or it could be optimized code. Speaking of faster, hotsyncing via the USB is amazingly fast. I use AvantGo, and subscribe to a lot of channels, so I really appreciate the speed difference. 

The speakers seem to be the same, in that the alarms sound exactly identical. 

I still haven’t gotten used to the backlighting. The shortcut .8 toggles between [normal backlight] and [inverting backlight] (in Memo Pad) but I don’t see any differnce, even after resetting the unit. 

Speaking of resetting the unit, there is no reset pin on the stylus! I can’t believe that I’m back to carrying a bent paper clip in the battery compartment. The stylus silo is smaller than the III or VII, so I can’t use any of my other styluses. I want to try a Palm V stylus in it, see how it fits. The VD stylus doesn’t ’click’ into the silo, but it holds very nicely.