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Review: The New Casio Pocket PC E-200
msolnik writes: "PocketNow has done an in-depth review of the new Casio Pocket PC E-200. It has a built in compact flash and SD slot. It has a 206mhz strong arm, reflective screen and a replacable rechargeable battery. In my opionion it looks very cool and seems like it could do some damage to the IPAQ's sales. On a side note it should run linux no problem."
Has anyone gotten NetBSD up and running on it yet?
Err, and really, who needs that much speed on a PDA? It's not like you're playing Quake on it (though, actually, that could be fun... playing Quake on a handheld computer in public could have interesting affects).
This thing will be perfect for Embedded XP! The only question left is where can I buy one?
For less than the $600 price the article mentions, you can get a Sharp Zaurus with the same specs. (CF slot, SD slot, 206MHz... the works.) Plus you get a keyboard(!) and there's no ugly windows logo emblazoned on it.
Sorry, I think that Casio's a day late and $100 to expensive.
- fader
I'll consider lugging one around every day when the pocket PC becomes half the thickness it currenly is and is half the weight.
Yes, size does matter.
Meanwhile I'll stick with my old but smaller Handspring.
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These things are becoming freaks because they are too big to lug around in a pocket everyday but have more power than a decent laptop from 4 years ago. More memory and processor power are a waste in a package that will really do little more than some point-click lookups (eg address book) and play games.
How much memory and processing power does an address book need?
If it is more than an address book then give me a da*n keyboard and bigger screen. Wait, I already have one of those. I call it a laptop and it is about as small as I can stand a real computer being.
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I saw a post the other day about having /. consider running a mirror for each story. I couldn't load the review at 5 comments. What's the point of posting a story when you can't look at it? Just have a mirror up for a couple of hours until the /. effect wears off. No big deal to do that.
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I'd rather put 2x or 3x the price of that and get a laptop that will do 10 times more stuff.
The good news is, for people that actually want a pda, and think that the Palm II is a bit obsolete, can not get a E115 for way cheaper than it was just 2 years ago. You get the extra features without the heavy price tag, besides for 1/3 the price of that E200 unit you won't be paranoid about breaking it or losing it...
Still, the high-end segment is really cool, must be nice running a gameboy emulator on that little beast.
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I agree that linux is a good secure Server system, but for the life of me I can't understand what you would want it on a PDA for. Use the best tool for the job - This exludes Win XP as well.
I realize that the 16 MHz DragonBall chips are still pretty sufficient for coping with storing addresses, notes, and the likes; it's just irritating that it's stayed at the same speed for so long.
That's probably enough to start moving towards doing some "real" work, although if you want more than 15 minutes worth of MP3s, you'll still have to wait for the 256MB model.
I don't think these get to be truly better "mousetraps" until they have a pretty serious amount of storage space.
A year ago, it made sense that the iPAQ was expensive as an 'early-adopter" product; the continuing-to-be-hefty price is not particularly attractive.
I think it's pretty cool and all that IBM has built a wrist-watch that runs Linux; that doesn't forcibly grip me as being fundamentally important.
PalmOS is old enough that it may be getting "old in the tooth;" it's still pretty much useful enough. (Except for playing MP3s, but it's cheaper to get a recent Diamond Rio for that...)
A new model from another maker may be News for Nerds, but I have to wonder if it's really Stuff that matters.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
It should perhaps be pointed out to those not watching this market closely (just went thru a pda upgrade cycle meself) that after the sucess of the ipaq 36xx every single Pocket PC manufacturer is going for an ipaq clone as the PockerPC 2002. This is not anything spcial or surprising that they are doing.
;-) And failing to get the sound to work on my thinkpad 600 under Linux meets my cursing needs.
So they all have memory slots, tft screens, expansion capabilities of some sort, 206MHz processors. People are even throwing away their USPs to get on the ipaq bandwagon - the older casios were famed for high quality of their reflective screens. Now they're TFT too.
There are differences of course, but it's thinkgs like size, form factor, how much in the way of accessories are ut there, battery life.
Oh, and what did I pick? Palm M500. Does everything I need in a box that is so tiny I can barely tell if its in my pocket or not and that costs £200 instead of £500.
OK, doesn't run Linux and it doesn't really do multimedia. Mind you, that £300 difference will buy me rather a lot of MP3 player
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