Casio E200 CASSIOPEIA POCKET PC 2002 64MB COLOR REFLECTIVE DISPLAY (Casio-E200)

Casio Cassiopeia E-200

E200 CASSIOPEIA POCKET PC 2002 64MB COLOR REFLECTIVE DISPLAY (Casio-E200) Review, by Richard Baguley April 29, 2002

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• Reviewed by: patrick1511

  Strengths: Great screen, USB, CF and MMC.SD slots

  Weaknesses: Painting on the side come's off after intensife use rendomly reformating CF cards

  Overall: AL in al its the best Pocket pc ive ever used you can play MP3 and video whit great speeds. And i've heard that te first models were defect i mean by that that the backlight burns out and that the CF slot is defect after 1 week. But this is only whit the 5A models the 5B doesn't have this problems you can find you type number on the back of the PDA.

• Reviewed by: thatsdave

  Strengths: Super-bright display and speedy performance won me over... coolness while working with E-200 impressed me, compared to hot HP Jornada and Compaq iPaq. Large memory accessiblity in CF & SD is good.

  Weaknesses: Doing soft resets often... attempts at reformatting SD memory are unwelcome but easily canceled.

  Overall: Overall, I'm well pleased with E-200's performance and ability to amaze me. I have recommended this to several friends and they have bought the same. One person ditched an older PDA immediately after seeing my E-200. I did a month's research and chose Casio's E-200, which turned out to be very good investment.

• Reviewed by: Carguy

  Strengths: Dual media slots work simultaneously: SD/Multimedia card or Type 1/2 Compactflash. Also has USB connectivity. Battery removable so you can carry a spare.

  Weaknesses: Steeper learning curve than a Palm. These things can do so much more, but it takes a while to get familiar with everything. Also read some issues with screens going bad, but have had no problems.

  Overall: So far very satisfied. I've added both a 64 meg multimedia card and 256 mb compactflash card, so I have tons of storage. Holds all of my email, lots of MP3s, and plenty of mpegs or work files (powerpoint, etc.). I still basically use it for addresses and calendar, for which it does a nice job - slightly less efficient than a Palm, but easier to read via great screen. The added bonuses vs. Palm are HUGE memory via add-on cards, great screen, superfast processor (will actually play 50mb mpegs fairly smoothly, either landscape or portrait), voice recorder, MP3 player, ability to insert compactflash card direct from camera to show photos on screen, easy importing of Word, Excel, Powerpoint files, slide shows for photos, much better games (graphic-wise), and so on. Unique among almost all PocketPC 2002 players, this one has dual memory slots and USB capability.

• Reviewed by: DIMITRY

  Strengths: FAST PROCESSOR ( IN -LINE WITH THE IPAQ) EXPANSION CAPABILITIES, USB PORT

  Weaknesses: MINOR BUGS (RADOM RE-FORMATING OF CF) VERY BAD KEYPAD FOR GAMERS ESPECIALLY IN CAPARISON TO E-125. VERY POOR BATTERY LIFE ESPECIALLY IF USING IBM MICRODRIVE.

  Overall: OVERALL I LIKE THE E 200 BUT WISH CASIO KEPT THE KEYPAD FORMAT FROM THE OLDER E-125. (WHICH I ALSO OWN) MY GAMES PLAY FASTER AND I HAVE PLENTY OF SOFTWARE OPTIONS. MOVIES AND FILES ALSO PLAY FASTER.

• Reviewed by: bombadil

  Strengths: Plenty of expansion capabilities.

  Weaknesses: Lack of extra devices for this model. Casio seems to be more interested in the BE-300 cheapy than their flagship item.

  Overall: This PDA is plague with bugs. The screens back light burn out in about 3 weeks or so of use and the unit randomly attempts to reformat the CF cards. Some users have already had to exchange these unit up to three times, and the problems keep returning. Casio is not doing a lot about it either, their whole attitude towards these problems is, "We will take them one at a time, rather than issue a recall."