It is official. The long rumored demise of Handspring's venerable Visor series of PDAs has come to pass.

Handspring PDAs were arguably the best you could buy, with a special, faster tweak of Palm OS. Then came the Treo line, and Handspring suggested that their smartphones held the company’s future. They quickly denied that they were abandoning the popular Visor series, but we’d seen nothing new from Handspring since, and the line slowly eroded to only two models, the Platinum and Pro. Now they’re gone, too. Handspring models have lingered in the distributor chain for months, but the company will no longer offer them on its website. Handspring still sells the Treos 270 and 300.

With HandEra no longer producing Palm OS PDAs, and Palm having dropped the m125, U.S. consumers can no longer buy Palm OS PDAs with removable batteries, and there are only three models, the Palm Zire and i705 and Sony CLIE SJ20 with monochrome screens and extremely low prices.

Gary Ankney of EduPalm.org