Casio Cassiopeia EM-500 Pocket PC

Pros: stylish looks
Cons: could use better hardware!

The Casio EM-500 is probably the coolest PDA on the market, combining powerful hardware and a stylish design it is the "Imac" of the PDA world. With lots of multimedia features and a great design it is suppose to be targeted towards the [filthy...

Pros: Beautiful Screen, Excellent Hardware
Cons: Expensive, Larger Than Most

Were I to recommend one of the many Pocket PC OS PDAs on the market this would have to be right up there. The Compaq iPaqH3650 was my previous top Pocket PC choice but I think this would have it beat by a slim margin were it not for its size. Casio...

Pros: Color screen is super clear and bright. Expansion slot for more memory.
Cons: Few accessories available. Low RAM.

INTRO/WHAT TO EXPECT

The Casio EM-500 comes in varied packages, depending on the retail location. I purchased mine for $299.00 at Costco, and this included a 32 megabyte multimedia storage card (talked about below), which is not...

Pros: Bright screen, MP3 playback, USB support, Fast enough
Cons: Few accessories, 16mb rather than 32, bad in light

Casio replaced their older EM-125 version with this model... I have experience with both and will talk of them in this review.

Let's just cut to the chase by saying that the EM-500 is an incredible handheld computer that should help elevate...

Pros: TFT 65536 color display, USB, nice case
Cons: Too large for a pocket, limited expansion with MMC cards

I am a software developer and wrote the PacMan emulator for Microsoft's PocketPC release in April. Being a software developer working with Microsoft, I have owned and/or tested every HPC/PPC/PocketPC device and so far, the Compaq iPAQ and the EM500 are...

Pros: modern, color, easy to use
Cons: i've been having minor problems...

I actually received a Casio EM-500 under special conditions, and it's surpassed my expectations. I had a Compaq, but the plastic of the push-pin battery compartment opening mechanism broke, and the battery compartment would no longer close. Noticing...

Pros: MMC expansion slot, great color screen, price
Cons: Not enough memory, could be faster, easily scratchable screen

Once in a while you get a device while it's new and hot, and forget to tell anybody else about it (at least on Epinion)... this is one of those times...

I've had the EM-500 for almost a year now. At that time, I was looking for a...

Pros: Uses inexpensive MMC cards.
Cons: Limited application.

The Casio Cassiopeia EM-500 doesn't make any sense when compared to the Casio Cassiopeia E-125. The EM-500 has half the memory (16MB), can only use the new 64MB MMC cards (the largest configuration currently available), has no size advantages over the...

Pros: Beautiful display, fast processor, separate backup battery, great functionality, USB connection
Cons: MMC memory cards are extremely rare and expensive; no cradle

Those of you who read my Epinions in electronics know that I bought an HP Jornada 525 Pocket PC in the not-so-distant pass. I also returned it because I couldn't stand the incredibly long transfer times through the serial interface. And so I set out to...

Pros: Incredible colors, Big screen, Very nice layout.
Cons: Lose of sleep.

I am thirteen years old and asked for a Cassiopeia 500 for my birthday. I was originally looking at a MP3 player that could hold addresses and phone numbers, I then realized that I could get 10X the screen size and capabilities with a PDA. I was looking...

Pros: Nice screen, batteries can be changed (with purchased spare), add memory without sleeve.
Cons: No cradle, no flash rom, short battery life.

Since most of the recent attention is on the Compaq Ipaq, I will gear my review to a comparison of major points which led me to buy the Casio:

1. I can carry 80MB of memory in the EM500 in my button-up top shirt pocket with no additional...

Pros: Cool multimedia features, more than a simple PIM, Pocket Office, beautiful color screen
Cons: Battery life, lack of peripherals, bigger than Palm V

I paid $250 for my Palm IIIxe and never used it as anything more than an expensive PIM (Personal Information Manager). But with the Casio Cassiopeia EM-500, I have been having so much fun since I bought it 6 months ago -- and actually getting some real...

Pros: Great display; great value; PocketPC operating system.
Cons: Fair design; no cradle; very limited upgrade options. No wireless options.

I had the unique opportunity to use and evaluate the Casio EM500 for a week to determine if I was interested in purchasing it. At the end of that week, I really wanted to buy this PDA, but I had some lingering concerns that kept me from doing so. Here...

Pros: Brilliant Display, Good for gaming, slim size.
Cons: Expansion is limited by no I/O and hard to find MMC cards, 16mb.

or at least your PDA screen.

The Casio EM500 was released much at the same time as the Compaq Ipaq 3600 and the HP Jornadas. Casio decided to target the em500 at a younger generation, and billed it as a multimedia device. Overshadowed by the...

Pros: style, cost and o/s.
Cons: bulky size, limited 16 mb ram, unreadable screen under sunlight

I bought it refurnished-new from ubid for 180$.
There are many things I like about it: the very pretty green cover and the great screen color resolution. A huge plus, for me, is the o/s windows ce; I am used to the window o/s and I like the...