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User Submitted Casio Cassiopeia E-200 Pocket PC Reviews (cont...)Date: 2002-12-05 Awesome Stable PDA --Too Bad Marketing didn't do its job Better than IPAQ any day. This has been the most versatile PDA with all of the great qualities that I was looking for 1.Two Memory Slots: It was the premiere PDA to have 2 Memory Slots before anyone else. Of course the reviewers said that it was bulky but when you compare it to an IPAQ which requires a sleeve to access a CF slot, the Bulk and Weight of an IPAQ is huge. I have DATA (Text Books, Pictures) and Music on SD Memory cards and I leave the CF Slot open for other things 2. CF SLOTS are mandatory and should not just be an additional sleeve. I have a socket CF card connection kit to my phone digital phone so that I can access the internet by dialing my ISP to retrieve messages. I have a CF modem so that I can access the internet via a phone line. This is nice if you are sitting in an airport and don't want to eat up your cell phone minutes. I just bought a CF WiFi and connected to the internet at a cafe. My next purchase is to buy a CF digital camera. 3. Removable Battery: At the most 2-3 hours per battery. But it's ok. I have two and I change them out. There is a small backup battery that protects your data in case the main battery wears down too far. The unit has a Warning that will pop up intermittently to tell you that it is low. I HAVE NEVER LOST MY INFORMATION DUE TO BATTERY DRAIN. There are times during a meeting, I am not near an outlet and to exchange out the battery is ideal rather than move all of your stuff. 4. USB attachment: This was where Casio was ahead of its time. To have the USB adapter so that I can attach USB items. Unfortunately, the only thing I can attach is a USB keyboard (Small View Sonic USB Keyboard until a USB Fold out one is made) b/c products have not written drivers for the Pocket PC but they are coming--Tell the companies "NO MORE PROPRIETARY Accessories" 5. Speakers: Fair but with earbuds-Wow the sound is great. 6. Voice Recorder: The quality is wonderful. I had a presentation to do and the computer couldn't record my voice blurbs for a power pt presentation. I recorded them on my Casio, Downloaded them to my computer and popped them in the power pt presentation. 7. Customer Service: Initial Batch had problems with the Back light. The company sent me out a new one within the week. 8. IR port at the top. I think this is easier by design to do more but I wonder if it highly critical. If you wanted to beam something across, YOU DON'T HAVE TO TURN IT SIDEWAYS as with the Toshiba. I use the IR port to hotsync with and IR adapter to my computer. I don't need a cradle at work. I just bought the Seiko inklink and finally got it to work (use COM4 on Tablet Set UP) so I can write my notes and have them transcribed as a jpg. 9. Flaws: The SD Card Slot door is fragile but once you figure out how to close it you can be more aggressive with it. The MAJOR ONE: Casio Marketing has decided to not market this in the US anymore. BAD DECESION they didn't catch the wave and fight the lame beast of IPAQ. Overall, This device outways the IPAQ, less problems than the Toshiba e740 which prided itself with higher speed (not) and WiFi (Weak) IR port on the side, and battery problems. For the future, I am happy with my Casio and will wait until they solve the problems of the next generation of 400MHZ. If you need something Now the new Dell is about the same size but I believe just doesn't have the USB connector and I don't think that there is a keyboard. For now, I reached my ideal. No more heavy Laptop. I can sit in a coffee shop, Listen to my music, work on a Spread Sheet or Word, or surf the internet using my WiFi CF and read email. Date: 2002-12-05 Awesome Stable PDA --Too Bad Marketing didn't do its job Better than IPAQ any day. This has been the most versatile PDA with all of the great qualities that I was looking for 1.Two Memory Slots: It was the premiere PDA to have 2 Memory Slots before anyone else. Of course the reviewers said that it was bulky but when you compare it to an IPAQ which requires a sleeve to access a CF slot, the Bulk and Weight of an IPAQ is huge. I have DATA (Text Books, Pictures) and Music on SD Memory cards and I leave the CF Slot open for other things 2. CF SLOTS are mandatory and should not just be an additional sleeve. I have a socket CF card connection kit to my phone digital phone so that I can access the internet by dialing my ISP to retrieve messages. I have a CF modem so that I can access the internet via a phone line. This is nice if you are sitting in an airport and don't want to eat up your cell phone minutes. I just bought a CF WiFi and connected to the internet at a cafe. My next purchase is to buy a CF digital camera. 3. Removable Battery: At the most 2-3 hours per battery. But it's ok. I have two and I change them out. There is a small backup battery that protects your data in case the main battery wears down too far. The unit has a Warning that will pop up intermittently to tell you that it is low. I HAVE NEVER LOST MY INFORMATION DUE TO BATTERY DRAIN. There are times during a meeting, I am not near an outlet and to exchange out the battery is ideal rather than move all of your stuff. 4. USB attachment: This was where Casio was ahead of its time. To have the USB adapter so that I can attach USB items. Unfortunately, the only thing I can attach is a USB keyboard (Small View Sonic USB Keyboard until a USB Fold out one is made) b/c products have not written drivers for the Pocket PC but they are coming--Tell the companies "NO MORE PROPRIETARY Accessories" 5. Speakers: Fair but with earbuds-Wow the sound is great. 6. Voice Recorder: The quality is wonderful. I had a presentation to do and the computer couldn't record my voice blurbs for a power pt presentation. I recorded them on my Casio, Downloaded them to my computer and popped them in the power pt presentation. 7. Customer Service: Initial Batch had problems with the Back light. The company sent me out a new one within the week. 8. IR port at the top. I think this is easier by design to do more but I wonder if it highly critical. If you wanted to beam something across, YOU DON'T HAVE TO TURN IT SIDEWAYS as with the Toshiba. I use the IR port to hotsync with and IR adapter to my computer. I don't need a cradle at work. I just bought the Seiko inklink and finally got it to work (use COM4 on Tablet Set UP) so I can write my notes and have them transcribed as a jpg. 9. Flaws: The SD Card Slot door is fragile but once you figure out how to close it you can be more aggressive with it. The MAJOR ONE: Casio Marketing has decided to not market this in the US anymore. BAD DECESION they didn't catch the wave and fight the lame beast of IPAQ. Overall, This device outways the IPAQ, less problems than the Toshiba e740 which prided itself with higher speed (not) and WiFi (Weak) IR port on the side, and battery problems. For the future, I am happy with my Casio and will wait until they solve the problems of the next generation of 400MHZ. If you need something Now the new Dell is about the same size but I believe just doesn't have the USB connector and I don't think that there is a keyboard. For now, I reached my ideal. No more heavy Laptop. I can sit in a coffee shop, Listen to my music, work on a Spread Sheet or Word, or surf the internet using my WiFi CF and read email. Date: 2002-11-28 "The little device that could" Okay, sure, it doesn't look too impressive out-of-the-box. But with eXPod, it's a different story. For very few $$, you get an awesome device which (when running eXPod - free), gives you a Windows 9.xx interface, is totally skinnable, GREAT for surfing, music, videos, games (Doom, for example), LOTS of applications, etc. Great for the student or a starter PDA, fantastic even if you are familiar with handhelds. I bought a GoType! Keyboard with mine and it is fantastic for taking notes at school. Good things: The BE can play mp3's well, and can even play music in the background while you enter data or play a game. There are actually a lot of (free!) applications if you look. A good place to start is ... I haven't bought anything for mine. It's all been freeware or shareware. It can play .wma files. (smaller than mp3's). Many things can work with it that claim not to be supported. ActiveSync is much more user friendly, though you can't syncronize to your computer from it. You can transfer files at a quicker rate than PC Connect. Bad: No, it's not actually windows CE. It's based on it. So you can't run all windows CE 3.0 applications. However, using eXpod(almost a replacement OS), more run than did on the original OS. The original GUI isn't very good, but it can be changed. KC menu and eXpod are some popular choices. It doesn't like being dropped much. I dropped mine twice, on the second time the screen no longer turned on. Luckily, it wasn't too expensive to replace. Keep in mind you will need to buy a CF card if you want to do much with it, 128 mb, minimum.
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