CASIO מפסיקה לייצר את 200 E
Sunday, July 28, 2002 Casio, We Hardly Knew Yee Dept.: Given the numerous problems with quality control on the Casio E200 PocketPC this should come as no surprise to anyone. Casio in Texas has announced that they will no longer distribute the E Series of Pocket PCs in the US, instead opting to push the BE Pocket Manager more. The Casio Pocket PC will survive in Japan where they hold a larger market share but the US will be left high and dry and will be forced now back into a 3 manufacturer market. (Source: PocketCity.Org) The Casio E200 held high promise for the purpose of mobile writing. Dual slots allowed for simultaneous use of a memory card and a communications card, the screen was decently bright and clear, and the innovative move of gifting the PPC with USB hosting capabilities opened the door to using full sized PC keyboards for the greatest input speed ever. I for one looked to Casio to finally build the perfect PPC. A backlit Transflective screen (reminiscent of their old HAST screens,) Dual I/O capable expansion slots, and a standard USB sync connector allowing the connection of a USB keyboard directly via the hosting function. Instead I now have to play the “feature trade off game” in choosing between the LOOX, the Toshiba e740, the mythical Audiovox e550g, or the sleeve laden iPAQ. Yet again we´ll have to factor in which defects we can live with and which features are not that essential. Wow, I´m growing a monster headache...
Sunday, July 28, 2002 Casio, We Hardly Knew Yee Dept.: Given the numerous problems with quality control on the Casio E200 PocketPC this should come as no surprise to anyone. Casio in Texas has announced that they will no longer distribute the E Series of Pocket PCs in the US, instead opting to push the BE Pocket Manager more. The Casio Pocket PC will survive in Japan where they hold a larger market share but the US will be left high and dry and will be forced now back into a 3 manufacturer market. (Source: PocketCity.Org) The Casio E200 held high promise for the purpose of mobile writing. Dual slots allowed for simultaneous use of a memory card and a communications card, the screen was decently bright and clear, and the innovative move of gifting the PPC with USB hosting capabilities opened the door to using full sized PC keyboards for the greatest input speed ever. I for one looked to Casio to finally build the perfect PPC. A backlit Transflective screen (reminiscent of their old HAST screens,) Dual I/O capable expansion slots, and a standard USB sync connector allowing the connection of a USB keyboard directly via the hosting function. Instead I now have to play the “feature trade off game” in choosing between the LOOX, the Toshiba e740, the mythical Audiovox e550g, or the sleeve laden iPAQ. Yet again we´ll have to factor in which defects we can live with and which features are not that essential. Wow, I´m growing a monster headache...