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Summary: Three years old
Review: I've had mine for three years. I did buy it new, though. I have been eyeing the Dell Axim, but since there is nothing wrong with my Casio, I can't find any reason to switch.
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Summary: Three years old
Review: I've had mine for three years. I did buy it new, though. I have been eyeing the Dell Axim, but since there is nothing wrong with my Casio, I can't find any reason to switch.
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Summary: Gorgeous color screen : superb for ppc gaming
Review: If you ever wished that your palm had a color screen, or that you didn't have to buy an expensive add on to turn your palm into an mp3 player or even into a movie player the em-500 is the pocket pc for you. The OS is very stable, it hasn't crased on me yet, and you should just see the palm owners goggling at your screen, which is what I love :-) It's a super pocket pc, and at a really good price (I bought mine for less than $400) the mmc slot works exactly as advertised. And is very easy to use. I recommend the em-500 to anyone who wants a REAL multimedia pocket pc. [ atleast 32mb mmc card recommended ]
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Summary: waiting for warrantee service, and waiting, and waiting...
Review: It has been in the shop for more than a month now. I guess that means that as of today, it has been away for service for more days than I got to use it in the first place.I could not keep the screen aligned. When you tap the stylus on the screen, the machine should detect exactly where you tap. You can go through an "alignment" procedure to set the position of the stylus exactly. Unfortunately, the screen would go out of alignment (by one-eighth to one-quarter of an inch) five or six times per day. Every third or fourth day, the screen would go out of alignment by one-half to three-quarters inch. It did not "drift" out of alignment; it would happen suddenly, in the middle of writing characters, for example. I could see the character being formed directly underneath the stylus, and the very next character would be a quarter-inch above or below the stylus. So, does this happen to everyone (and everyone else just puts up with it)? I don't know, but I could not get any information from Casio whether this was expected behavior, unusual behavior, a common failure or an unusual failure. So I shipped it back to Casio factory service in NJ, and cannot find out anything about when (if ever) they will send it back, or if they can fix it or if I'll have to live with it. I sure wish I had bought an iPaq. Maybe I'll go ahead and order an iPaq; it will probably arrive from backorder before I get the Casio back.
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Summary: Poor craftsmanship!
Review: Sure the em-500 is great, while it works! I bought two units off ebay and they were like new when I received them. One worked fine for only about six months, then the internal memory died and left me with a 200 dollar paperweight. The second lasted another six months. Then it too, developed a case of the internal flu. It won't even work right long enough for me too get the information stored in it off! If it were just one unit I might think I were just unlucky, but two going bad tells me these aren't built to withstand even normal use! A paper and pencil would have been so much cheaper!
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Summary: Poor craftsmanship!
Review: Sure the em-500 is great, while it works! I bought two units off ebay and they were like new when I received them. One worked fine for only about six months, then the internal memory died and left me with a 200 dollar paperweight. The second lasted another six months. Then it too, developed a case of the internal flu. It won't even work right long enough for me too get the information stored in it off! If it were just one unit I might think I were just unlucky, but two going bad tells me these aren't built to withstand even normal use! A paper and pencil would have been so much cheaper!
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Summary: The best PDA/PocketPC on the market!
Review: The Casio Cassiopeia EM-500 is undeniably the best PDA/PocketPC on the market today. It has a vast number of programs: telnet, finger, ping, internet explorer, e-mail, irc, aol instant messenger, word, excel, access, notepad, transcriber (no graffiti to learn, it recognizes anyone's natural handwriting and converts it to text just like this you're reading now), and so much more. If you are a programmer or web designer, you must have this PDA/PPC! It's also great for listening to MP3/WMA audio and playing video clips and movie previews, storing pictures, scanning the Pocket Bible, and so much more. MMC is the future of compact memory technology..., it will replace compactFlash within the next two years guaranteed! It will support modems, network cards, cameras, and of course memory with projected sizes above anything CF Cards can imagine. (according to the MMCA group). Do yourself a favor and get the CASIO EM-500! It is the next best thing to a laptop!
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Summary: Great multimedia Pocket PC
Review: The Cassiopeia EM-500 looks like a pretty sweet deal. It can do almost anything the E-115 does, and it's smaller and faster. If you compare the EM-500 to the E-115, you'll notice that the E-115 has 32MB of memory, where the EM-500 has 16MB. Also, the EM-500 offers the multimedia card memory system, so memory can be easily expanded. The EM-500 seems targeted at a younger market, with great multimedia capabilities (MP3, 240 x 320 TFT 65,536 color screen, excellent gamepad). Its main competitor, the Compaq iPaq, offers more memory and speed, but less colors, and, most importantly perhaps, the keypad of the iPaq cannot register simultaneous clicks, which limits its gameplay capabilities. If you want a good Pocket PC for both "serious stuff" and games and multimedia, the EM-500 seems the way to go. A fine product by Casio, with more memory I would have given it 5 stars.
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Summary: Casio does not fulfill their rebates and the battery does no
Review: The EM-500 does not hold a charge and Casio does not honor their rebate for this product either. Please save your self some trouble buy the Compaq. The Compaq is rated higher
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Summary: varied price
Review: the price for the casio em-500 is verry ranged in price.
why pay ...for this machine? when you can buy it brand new at casios web site for... some of the prices for these devices are steep.and dont take me wrong i dont work for casio.but take my word for it go to casios web site.i relly like this pda.its a great value.and accessories arnt that hard to find there to. i dont know why prices are so high some places!?go to ... and i am not promoting there site.
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