Operating system Pocket PC 2002, which was published this fall nobody will be surprised - know about it all, even those who have never seen "live" - so much of her writing and in the press and the Internet, but the companies - manufacturers still continue to please the discerning and not very user devices based on it. The first difference Hewlett Packlard, the next - Compaq, and now - Casio. Time to regular model, I informally measured from the moment it appears in our country.
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And Casiopeia E-200 came to Russia and my hands in particular. Since the Casio, as already stated, was not the first to release similar devices, in this article we will (maybe unwittingly) to compare it with its closest competitors iPaq and Jornada. Thus, box and its contents are nothing especially from competitors do not differ. The kit includes a cradle, AC adapter, the device itself, a nice etui leatherette, descriptions, instructions and CD. CCP itself heavily on competitive products is no different - after all requirements of the operating system make themselves felt - 32 MB ROM, 64 RAM, 64K TFT screen, Intel StrongARM SA-1110 with a frequency of 206 mg. Microsoft has left producers PDAs few opportunities to stand out clearly tied to the operating system's "hardware". From Carta were only design and small software and hardware "Baubles".
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Pleased that Casio eksprimentirovat beginning with the design. The first experience in the 1xx series was, to put it mildly, not good - bricks. E-200 looks much more elegant. The body is made of silver plastic with inserts of plastic color blue steel. In general, Casio has succeeded in turning a simple plastic or other materials. Illusion that the inserts still Metallic stalking you until such time as the device falls into the hands. This contributes to a metallic sheen and smooth corners and depressed "a la stamping" inscription. However, I was not feeling that I associate with some strange reincarnation iPaq - painfully, they look similar. New Cassiopeia already equipped with two expansion slots: one, as it should - Compact Flash II, the second - SD / MMC. This, incidentally, can be attributed to the first "Fenichka. Interestingly, the second slot is located approximately at the same place at the Jornada 568 - backup battery. This completely unremarkable and rather shaky door on the left side of the panels. Opened by pressing the stylus into the small hole rear sockets. With top slot everything in order - is located where it is necessary, closes zaglushechkoy has a rear recess for Compact Flash - the periphery.
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In the arrangement of buttons and ports, too, there have been some changes. For example, vanished into oblivion button with the intriguing icon Windows, conveniently located on the left side of the venerable ancestor - Sassiopeia E-125. Now its functions are performed by a button launcher (the small icon to the rocket). It correctly - why are two buttons with roughly the same functions? But - holy place is never empty and vacant spot under powering took poluknopochka-poludyrochka rezet. Button moved to activate the recorder under the left side of the joystick, jack adapter crawled from the bottom on the left side same, and an infrared port, like all "normannyh people" ended up on top. But that's not all.Svetodiodiki power and alarm remained on the same site (only slightly increased and widened) and next to them are now celebrating a housewarming microphone. His closest friend - the speaker moved the joystick (long live iPaq!), And he perpolz joystick in the middle and gathered around him a command button - well, just iPaq some! In their original locations were only Jog Dial and a headphone jack. With the above nest, by the way, works great multimedia headphones with remote control from Sassiopeia EM-500 - the second pleasant "Fenichka.
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The third "Fenichka" - the presence of USB - hub on the cradle device. About it can say a few individual words. The very existence of this obscure "hole" - already a major breakthrough. Just think, now you can connect to the device is not special, but the most common peripherals: keyboards, cameras, printers and scanners. Drivers, however, there is not ... But I promise.
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In the meantime, the results of experiments - on a USB keyboard and mouse devices in general did not react. From the exotic periphery was found USB-drive. On his E-200 responded unequivocally - brought a message to enter a letter for the drive inserted, but after entering the letters with an error message. Well, wait for the drivers. Cradle is not very convenient. In my subjective view of the device it is very much vertically - to work hard. In addition it takes some skill to master the process of inserting E-200 in the cradle. " On the back stenochki cradle is "shpynechek, and Cassiopeia - the response opening. So it is necessary, inserting the device into the cradle sufficiently tangible to push down and back to easy click. To get you just legonechko pull ahead. Well, since we are looking for differences from previous models (in particular from the E-125) - now the molded cradle. Removable battery in the PDA. But small. And apparently, judging by the cover batareechnogo compartment, a larger place to place will not succeed. Capacity he has only 950 mAh. For comparison, the E-125 - 1400 mAh, and the nearest competitor Jornada 568 as much. Something tells me that Casio hardly managed to make a significant breakthrough in the energy consumption of their devices, and it makes me sad to think. In any survey taken to draw conclusions. And give advice to users. Thus our findings: a device made in the style iPaq and Casio at a time. As for functionality, mainly due to the operating system and the hardware is not much different from its competitors. Advise it is possible, firstly, those who are closely communicated with Compact Flash, and c SD / MMC cards, fans of the company Casio, not lose hope for the emergence of drivers or peripherals cherished programmers, who decided to try his hand at writing the aforementioned drivers. The authors, translation: